We ran some benchmarks on it. Though the OMAP3630 is not the newest processor out here, it performed quite well. All tests were run on firmware 3.2.80, just after a fresh reboot and all applications closed.
Benchmark numbers
| Archos 101 G9 1 GHz | Archos 70b IT | Arnova 10 G2 | Archos 101 IT 1 GHz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test setup Firmware version |
Android 3.2 Firmware version 3.2.34 |
Android 3.2 Firmware version 3.2.80 |
Android 2.3.1 Build number eng.hwg.20110801 |
Android 2.2.1 Firmware 2.4.19(in overdrive mode) |
| AnTuTu bench version 2.2 Total score higher is faster |
4343 | 2676 (version 2.6) | not working | 2321 |
| CF-Bench v1.1 Overall score higher is faster |
4582 | 2691 | 2105 | 1986 |
| GPUBench v1.0.0 higher is faster |
Absolute: 35409 Relative: 21223 |
Benchmark not found | Absolute: 33172 Relative: 25765 |
Absolute: 18135 Relative: 13085 |
| Linpack PRO v 1.2.9 higher is faster |
Single Thread: 37.951 MFLOPS Multi-Thread: 60.06 MFLOPS |
Single Thread: . MFLOPS Multi-Thread: . MFLOPS |
Single Thread: 14.173 MFLOPS Multi-Thread: 13.884 MFLOPS |
Single Thread: 15.393 MFLOPS Multi-Thread: 14.134 MFLOPS |
| NenaMark2 Best fps higher is faster |
16.5 | 14.3
24.9 (Nenamark 1) |
23.3 | not working |
| Touch test | 4 points | 5 points | 2 points | 2 points |
| Quadrant Advanced 1.1.7 higher is faster |
Total: 1456 CPU: 4084 Mem: 1505 I/O: 726 2D: 142 3D: 822 |
Total: 1350 CPU: 3820 Mem: 1553 I/O: 664 2D: 186 3D: 525 |
Total: 1258 CPU: 2314 Mem: 1075 I/O: 2180 2D: 123 3D: 599 |
Total: 1112 CPU: 2736 Mem: 1001 I/O: 1333 2D: 182 3D: 308 |
| Smartbench 2011 v1.2.1 higher is faster |
Prod. index: 2811 Games Index: 2840 |
not working | Prod. index: 594 Games Index: 565 |
Prod. index: 821 Games Index: 1211 |
| Vellamo v1.0.3 | 904 | 659 | 441 | 370 |
Our opinion
The different benchmarks presented here show that the new Archos 70b IT running at 1.2 GHz compares quite well with Arnova 10 G2, another budget tablet from Archos. Looking straight at the numbers, 70b IT is a little ahead, but on many tests, both machines gave close results, with less than 10% variation. The 70b IT couldn’t keep up with 101G9 which has a dual-core OMAP4 processor. Still, it was better than the 70IT, possibly due to increased RAM and processor clock speed, but may be also due to the Honeycomb OS.
Touchscreen test.
The 70b IT has 5 point multi-touch which was quite a big surprise. The more expensive G9 models can recognise only 4 points and the 70IT, only 2. 5 points is more than enough for 7″ touchscreen, like you could see in the video, we had even some trouble with placing 5 fingers on small surface. We also didn’t encounter any problems when it comes to touch recognition and we didn’t have any calibration issues.
I/O benchmark.
We tested the internal memory performance with Arctools application. It gave the following results:
Read: 18421kB/s
Write: 8165kB/s
We found the results quite good, close to Class 6 range.
Continue to part 5: Real life performance.
