The improvements to the Roku Ultra take what was already one of the best quality streaming players on the market to a new level. The Roku brand has already completed its takeover of American living rooms.

Simply titled Roku Ultra (2024), the new edition sports a quad-core CPU that Roku claims is 30% faster than both its original predecessor and all of the best Roku devices that came before it. It also comes with the new second-gen Voice Remote Pro .

The latest top-level Roku has a fancy, backlit remote and a speed bump, but it's still not the best value in the company's lineup.

Ultra is 30 percent faster than any of Roku’s other players, and it now features Wi-Fi 6. That upgrade puts it ahead of the Google TV Streamer, which stuck with Wi-Fi 5. Roku is now on par with the Apple TV,

The latest Roku Ultra model comes with a new quad-core chipset, optimized specifically for streaming. Roku promises this processor is 30% faster than previous Ultra models. “With a more powerful CPU,

The new Roku Ultra (2024) has hardware similar to, well, just about every other Roku, but with some upgrades under the hood. Roku says the new model is 30% faster thanks to a new (unnamed) CPU. It also leverages machine learning to try to predict what app you’re going to open next and start loading it in the background for the “snappiest app loading.