Amazon Echo Show 15 (2nd Gen) vs Amazon Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen)

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Echo Show 15 (2nd Gen) compared with Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen)

	AmazonEcho Show 15 (2nd Gen)	AmazonEcho Show 5 (3rd Gen)
Overview
Released
Released	November 2024	May 2023
Sound
Type
Type	Speaker	Speaker
Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos	No	No
Drivers
Drivers	Two 2″ woofers and two 0.6″ tweeters	One 1.75″ full-range speaker (1.7″ in Amazon's comparison chart)
Room tuning
Room tuning	Room adaptation	–
Connections
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi	Yes	Yes
Bluetooth
Bluetooth	Yes	Yes
AirPlay
AirPlay	No	No
Voice assistants
Voice assistants	Alexa	Alexa
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi	Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax), tri-band, dual-antenna MIMO; Zigbee, Matter and Thread border router; Amazon Sidewalk	Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac; Amazon Sidewalk; smart home over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh and Matter
Bluetooth
Bluetooth	A2DP (to and from the speaker) and AVRCP	A2DP (to and from the speaker) and AVRCP
Streaming
Streaming	Fire TV built in (Fire TV app store); Amazon Music and other services through Alexa; Bluetooth	Prime Video app, other video through the browser; Amazon Music and other music services through Alexa; Bluetooth
App
App	Alexa app (Fire OS, Android, iOS and web)	Alexa app (Fire OS, Android, iOS and web)
Design
Weight
Weight	2.25 kg	0.456 kg (better)
Controls
Controls	15.6″ touchscreen, 1920 × 1080, landscape or portrait; Alexa Voice Remote (2024); microphone and camera off button; 13 MP auto-framing camera with shutter; octa-core processor with Amazon AZ2 neural network engine; RGB ambient light sensor and accelerometer	5.5″ touchscreen; microphone and camera off button; 2 MP camera with built-in shutter; MediaTek MT8169B processor (Amazon's press release names the AZ2 Neural Edge processor)
Microphones
Microphones	Button disconnects the microphones and camera	Reengineered microphone array; button disconnects the microphones and camera
Mounting
Mounting	Wall mount included; premium counter stand and snap-on frames sold separately	–
Size
Size	16.1 × 10.1 × 1.4 in (W × H × D); 4.96 lb	147 × 91 × 82 mm (W × D × H)
Colours
Colours	–	Charcoal, Glacier White, Cloud Blue
In the box
In the box	Echo Show 15 (2nd Gen), Alexa Voice Remote (2024) with batteries, 30 W power adapter with 1.5 m (5 ft) cable, wall mount with anchors, screws and template, quick start guide	Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen), 22 W power adapter with 1.5 m (4.9 ft) cable, quick start guide