Amazon Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen) vs Amazon Echo Spot (2024)

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Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen) compared with Echo Spot (2024)

	AmazonEcho Show 5 (3rd Gen)	AmazonEcho Spot (2024)
Overview
Released
Released	May 2023	July 2024
Sound
Type
Type	Speaker	Speaker
Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos	No	No
Drivers
Drivers	One 1.75″ full-range speaker (1.7″ in Amazon's comparison chart)	One 1.73″ front-firing full-range directional speaker
Audio formats
Audio formats	–	Lossless High Definition
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	Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac; Amazon Sidewalk; smart home over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh and Matter	Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 and 5 GHz); eero Built-in mesh extender; Amazon Sidewalk; smart home over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh and Matter (Wi-Fi only)
Bluetooth
Bluetooth	A2DP (to and from the speaker) and AVRCP	A2DP (to and from the speaker) and AVRCP
Streaming
Streaming	Prime Video app, other video through the browser; Amazon Music and other music services through Alexa; Bluetooth	Amazon Music and other 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	0.456 kg	0.405 kg (better)
Controls
Controls	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)	2.83″ touchscreen (240 × 320) under half-circle tinted cover glass, with customisable clock faces in six colours; tap to snooze; buttons including microphone off; no camera; MediaTek MT8519 processor with 1 GB RAM and 8 GB storage
Microphones
Microphones	Reengineered microphone array; button disconnects the microphones and camera	Button disconnects the microphones
Size
Size	147 × 91 × 82 mm (W × D × H)	113 × 103 × 111 mm (W × D × H)
Colours
Colours	Charcoal, Glacier White, Cloud Blue	Black, Glacier White, Ocean Blue
In the box
In the box	Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen), 22 W power adapter with 1.5 m (4.9 ft) cable, quick start guide	Echo Spot, 15 W power adapter, quick start guide