Amlogic S812/S812-B/S812-S/S805/S802

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Amlogic S812/
S812-B/
S812-S/
S802
Manufacturer Amlogic
Name S812/
S812-B/
S812-S/
S802
Codenames Meson8,Meson8m2
Architecture armv7f
CPU 4x 2GHz Cortex-A9
GPU Mali-400
Year 2014
Process 28nm
Mainline yes
Community Page https://linux-meson.com/
Components
CPU
Works
UART
Works
Storage
Partial
USB
Works
Display
Partial
GPU
Works
Pinctrl
Partial
I²C
Works
SPI
Audio
Broken
Video
Partial
Thermal
Works
NPU
Suspend
Ethernet
Amlogic S805
Manufacturer Amlogic
Name S805
Codenames Meson8b
Architecture armv7f
CPU 4x 1.99GHz Cortex-A5
GPU Mali-400
Year 2014
Process 28nm
Mainline yes
Community Page https://linux-meson.com/
Components
CPU
Works
UART
Works
Storage
Partial
USB
Works
Display
Partial
GPU
Works
Pinctrl
Partial
I²C
Works
SPI
Audio
Broken
Video
Partial
Thermal
Works
NPU
Suspend
Ethernet


The S812/S812-B/S812-S/S805/S802 SoCs are media player SoCs mainly used in Android set-top boxes. S802 is the only chip in the Meson8 Amlogic SoC family. S805 is the only chip in the Meson8b .The rest of them are part of Meson8m2.However,they are very similar to each other .Here are the differences between them:


Here is the difference between them :

  • S802: 4x 2GHz Cortex-A9
  • S805: Similar to S802 but with Cortex-A5
  • S812: Similar to S802 but with H.265 UHD Decoder
  • S812-S: Similar to S802 but with Dolby digital hardware decoding
  • S812-B: Unknown


There are also -h variant of S812/S812-B/S812-S/S805/S802. it is a variant of the soc that has include Dolby/DTS licenses.


Devices

Device Codename Chipset Mainline booting
LETV U2 letv-lba-011-hk Amlogic S812-H No
Vensmile M8S mbx-pufangda Amlogic S812 No

See Also

s802-b Spec