Fire stick 4k has a slightly larger capacity ram at 1 5 gb.
Fire tv cube vs fire stick 4k specs.
The non 4k stick has two generations gen 1 and gen 2.
With 16gb of storage a blazing fast processor an ethernet adapter and comprehensive support for 4k all hdr formats and dolby atmos the fire tv cube is a leading edge streaming device.
Previously this functionality was.
This stick was one of the most popular amazon fire tv devices before the release of fire tv stick 4k the stick form factor doesn t provide any ethernet ports so for any testing and sideloading of apps you connect via adb wirelessly.
There is also a fire tv stick basic edition without alexa enabled voice control that ships to international marketplaces where other fire tv sticks aren t available.
It has a maximum supported resolution of 1080p 30fps and a cpu of 1 3 ghz.
There are main lines of fire tv sticks.
Yet it tends to offer better performance due to ddr4 technology as compared to firestick 2 nd gen which still relies on ddr3.
However again due to built in echo dot fire tv cube has to work a bit harder.
Fire tv stick gen 2 was released in september 2016.
On the ram front fire tv cube is a clear winner with 2 gb memory.