The non 4k stick has two generations gen 1 and gen 2.
Fire tv cube vs fire stick 4k specs.
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.
There are main lines of fire tv sticks.
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.
However again due to built in echo dot fire tv cube has to work a bit harder.
The basic fire tv stick can stream content up to hd quality 1080p but the fire tv stick 4k as the name suggests can reach 4k uhd resolution around four times the number of pixels.
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.
Fire stick 4k has a slightly larger capacity ram at 1 5 gb.
On the ram front fire tv cube is a clear winner with 2 gb memory.
Both the fire tv stick 4k and the fire tv cube support 4k resolution and the hdr 10 and dolby vision protocols which provide a much richer color gamut.
Yet it tends to offer better performance due to ddr4 technology as compared to firestick 2 nd gen which still relies on ddr3.