First look at the Archos 97 Carbon tablet – review part 3 (performance and multimedia)

Archos 97 Carbon performance: benchmark results

Test conditions:
- Archos 97 Carbon pre-production device (4 Gb storage model) with firmware build dated 20120602.104656
- all benchmarks were executed after all tasks have been killed
- test were run multiple times to check for consistent behaviour, the results shown here correspond to average values

	Archos 97 Carbon
Test setup Firmware version	Android 4.0.3 Build 20120602.104656
Arctools 0.67	Read 19 817 kB/s Write 3 791 kB/S
AnTuTu bench version 2.8.3 Total score higher is faster	2431 CPU: 780 GPU: 760 RAM: 392 I/O: 499
CF-Bench v1.1 higher is faster	Overall score: 2350 Native score: 3829 Java score: 1365
GPUBench v1.0.0 higher is faster	Absolute: 33237 Relative: 18882
Linpack PRO v 1.2.9 higher is faster	Single Thread: 15.419 MFLOPS
NenaMark2 Best fps higher is faster	16.7 FPS
Touch test	5 points
Quadrant Advanced 1.1.7 higher is faster	Total: 1706 CPU: 1464 Mem: 3082 I/O: 2823 2D: 231 3D: 930
Smartbench 2011 v1.2.1 higher is faster	Prod. index: 493 Games Index: 885
Vellamo v1.0.3	780

Benchmark results interpretation
While these numbers should be weighted by the fact they were run on the pre-production device, they give the general idea about the machine performance. It appears the Archos 97 Carbon produce similar performance as other tablets based on a the one year old Rockchip RK2918 SoC, which is just average in today’s performance standards for mid range tablets.

Multimedia

The Archos 97 Carbon comes with a basic video player. We’ve successfully played 1080p video content without a problem, but the video player is limited in term of features and audio/video formats supported, it definitely cannot compare with the feature rich Archos player which ships on the Archos G9 tablets.

1080p HD test videos details
Here are the specification details the three test 1080p videos that played successfully on the Archos 97 Carbon:

Avatar – Trailer_h264_1080p.mkv
General	Format : Matroska, Format version : Version 2 File size : 194 MiB Duration : 2mn 25s Overall bit rate : 11.2 Mbps
Video	Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L4.1 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Bit rate : 9 488 Kbps Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Audio	Format : DTS Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems Codec ID : A_DTS Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 1 510 Kbps Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Bit depth : 24 bits Compression mode : Lossy Delay relative to video : 11ms Stream size : 26.2 MiB (13%) Title : English DTS 1509kbps Language : English

h264_1080p_hp_4.1_40mbps_birds.mkv (Birds scene from Planete Earth Movie)
General	Format : Matroska Version 1 File size : 110 MiB Duration : 23s 65ms Overall bit rate : 39.9 Mbps
Video	Format : AVC (Advanced Video Codec) Format profile : High@L4.1 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Bit rate : 39.1 Mbps Nominal bit rate : 42.0 Mbps Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 1 072 pixels
Audio	None

Limitless – Trailer_h264_1080p.mp4
General	Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media / Version 2 Codec ID : mp42 File size : 154 MiB Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 8 696 Kbps Movie name : Limitless – Theatrical Trailer
Video	Format : AVC (Advanced Video Codec) Format profile : Main@L4.0 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames Codec ID : avc1 Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 8 550 Kbps Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Variable Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Audio	Format : AAC (Advanced Audio Codec) Format profile : LC Codec ID : 40 Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 144 Kbps Maximum bit rate : 175 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz Compression mode : Lossy Delay relative to video : -83ms Stream size : 2.53 MiB (2%) Language : English

Archos 97 Carbon 16 Gb	AMAZON USA	Usually ships in 1-2 business days	$ 219.99
	AMAZON UK	Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days	£ 149.99
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