Archos 101 XS (Gen 10) review | Part 3: tablet and TI OMAP 4470 performance

Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Tablet design Part 3: Tablet and TI OMAP 4470 performance Part 4: Tablet battery life

On the paper, the Archos 101 XS tablet, powered by a TI OMAP 4470 System on Chip (SoC) still clocked at 1.5 GHz isn’t expected to provide such a performance boost over the previous Archos G9 based on the TI OMAP 4460. We have run several benchmarks to get an idea, you will find the results below.

Archos 101 XS benchmarks

Test conditions:
– all devices were using latest firmware from the manufacturer
– all benchmarks were executed after a fresh reboot or all tasks being killed
– unless specified, tests were run multiple times to check for consistent behaviour, the results shown here correspond to average values

The tablet sample we used for review is a pre-production tablet with a beta firmware. Though some minor things may change, it should give a good idea of the final retail model …

Archos 101 xs vs Archos 101 G9 benchmark results

	Archos 101 xs (G10)	Archos 101 G9 Turbo model – 512 Mb RAM
Test setup Firmware version	pre-production device, with beta firmware Linux kernel version 3.0.21+ built Aug 16 12:50:16 CEST 2012 Android 4.0.4 Build G10A-user 4.0.4 IMM76D 20120809.121151	Archos stock firmware 4.0.7 Linux Kernel 3.0.8+ #4 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 7 16:12:27 CEST 2012 Android 4.0.3 Build MR1.20120529.141046
Antutu Benchmark higher is faster	Total score: 5874 CPU: 2940 GPU: 1387 RAM: 1069 I/O: 478	Total score: 7835 CPU: 4077 GPU: 1552 RAM: 1550 I/O: 656
Linpack Pro v 1.2.9 higher is faster, benchmark run in multi-thread (we took the best numbers we could achieve, there is a lot of variance on these bench results)	94.9 MFLOPS	82.6 MFLOPS
CF-Bench v 1.1 higher is faster	Native score: 10756 Java Score: 3288 Overall Score: 6275	Native score: 12871 Java Score: 3460 Overall Score: 7224
ArcTools v 0.69 higher is faster	Read: 29842 Kb/s Write: 13780 Kb/s	Read: 17304 Kb/s Write: 9674 Kb/s
Smartbench 2011 v 1.2.1 higher is faster	Prod. index: 2816 Games Index: 2810	Prod. index: 2972 Games Index: 1795
Quadrant Advanced 1.1.7 higher is faster	Total: 3557 CPU: 6170 Mem: 3346 I/O: 4671 2D: 1000 3D: 2599	Total: 2622 CPU: 7189 Mem: 2480 I/O: 1123 2D: 997 3D: 1322
Vellamo v 1.0.3 higher is faster	1374	1325
Nenamark v 2.0 higher is faster	55.0 FPS	27.9 FPS
GPUBench v 1.0.0 higher is faster	Absolute: 39195 Relative: 34964	Absolute: 36617 Relative: 25027
GLBenchmark v 2.5 higher is faster	GLBenchmark Egypt HD C24Z16 test onscreen: 1684 frames, 15 fps offscreen: 1277 frames, 11 fps	GLBenchmark Egypt HD C24Z16 test onscreen: 931 frames, 8.2 fps offscreen: 656 frames, 5.8 fps

Benchmark results interpretation

Comparing benchmarks results between the G9 and the G10 is made easier as both tablets run on a similar plateform (TI OMAP 4) and have the same OS & screen resolution. As you can see looking at these numbers, the 101 G9 and 101 xs (G10) benchmark results aren’t always consistent. Some performance tests even show that the G9 is faster than the G10. While preparing these benchmarks, we noted a lot of variation in the results with the different firmware versions we used on the Archos 101 XS. Looking at the gaming and Graphic Processor Unit (GPU) oriented benchmarks (GLBenchmark, NenaMark, GPUBench) it’s quite clear the performance has well increased in the Archos 101 XS, thanks to the PowerVR SGX544 on the TI OMAP 4470 SoC.
Please check again our benchmarks soon, we should provide an update in the coming weeks with a final production device.

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