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Archos GamePad performance: benchmark results
Test conditions:
– Arnova GamePad pre-production device with firmware build dated 20121126
– 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 101 xs (G10) | Archos GamePad | |
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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 |
pre-production device, with beta firmware Linux Kernel 3.0.8+ Android 4.1.1 Build JR003H.20121126.142255 |
Antutu Benchmark higher is faster |
Total score: 5874 CPU: 2940 GPU: 1387 RAM: 1069 I/O: 478 |
Total score: 12167 CPU: 3922 GPU: 5831 RAM: 1748 I/O: 666 |
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 | 79.8 MFLOPS |
CF-Bench v 1.1 higher is faster |
Native score: 10756 Java Score: 3288 Overall Score: 6275 |
Native score: 10156 Java Score: 2836 Overall Score: 5764 |
ArcTools v 0.69 higher is faster |
Read: 29842 Kb/s Write: 13780 Kb/s |
Read: 27224 Kb/s Write: 7351 Kb/s |
Smartbench 2011 v 1.2.1 higher is faster |
Prod. index: 2816 Games Index: 2810 |
Prod. index: 2972 Games Index: 1795 |
Quadrant higher is faster |
Total: 3557 CPU: 6170 Mem: 3346 I/O: 4671 2D: 1000 3D: 2599 |
Total: 3715 CPU: 6342 Mem: 4252 I/O: 4801 2D: 1032 3D: 2150 |
Vellamo v 1.0.3 higher is faster |
1374 | 1384 |
Nenamark v 2.0 higher is faster |
55.0 FPS | 55.2 FPS |
GPUBench v 1.0.0 higher is faster |
Absolute: 39195 Relative: 34964 |
Absolute: 41931 Relative: 40939 |
While these numbers should be weighted by the fact they were run on the pre-production devices, they give the general idea about the machines performance. It appears the GamePad has about the same performance as the 101xs and that the Quad-core Mali-400 GPU is pretty powerful givent the high results in GPU benchmarks.
Battery Life
From a fully charged tablet, we played this video file big_buck_bunny_720p_AAC.mp4(Big Buck Bunny 720p, stereo sound in AAC format) in loop until the tablet battery gets empty.
More details about the test conditions:
– using latest firmware (20121126) available on the pre-production device
– machine started after a fresh reboot
– tablet fully charged (lockscreen says “Charged”, Settings / About tablet / Status says Battery level100%)
– media sound volume set to half (Settings/Sound/Volume, set Media bar to middle position)
– brightness set to half (Settings/Display/Brightness)
– Wi-FI disabled
During this test, on our pre-production Archos GamePad, we have measured an effective battery life of 4 hours and 36 minutes. For comparison, most other Archos and Arnova tablets of all sizes also give it up after 4-6 hours. We have used our ArcTools application to run the battery test for the details of the discharge curve, see below:
When it comes to battery life with gaming, it is worse. Running Asphalt 7 with full brightness and Wi-Fi on, the GamePad could only handle it for slightly more than two hours. Nova Battery Tester standard benchmark measured 1% drop per 72 seconds, or a battery life of 2 hours with maximum brightness and maximum CPU load(all the networks off). Archos 80G9 got more than the double in the same benchmark(results from Nova Battery Tester page). We can only say we would like to have a bigger battery in here.
Don’t forget to check our more detailed article on the ARCHOS GamePad battery life |
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