1GHz race for ARM Cortex-A8, ARM Cortex-A9 and Intel Atom. Benchmark for ARM Cortex-A8 (DM3730, 256KiB L2 cache), ARM Cortex-A9 (Exynos 4210, 1MiB L2 cache) and Intel Atom (N450, 512KiB L2 cache), all running at 1GHz CPU clock frequency. Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp): Processor: ARMv7 rev 2 @ 1.00GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: IGEP0020 board, Memory: 477MB, Disk: 8GB SA08G OS: Gentoo Base 2.1, Kernel: 2.6.37+ (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.7.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1080 Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp): Processor: ARMv7 rev 1 @ 1.20GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ORIGEN, Memory: 671MB, Disk: 16GB SDC OS: Gentoo Base 2.1, Kernel: 3.0.13+ (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.7.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x1200 Atom N450 @1GHz (X32): Processor: Intel Atom N450 @ 1.67GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: SAMSUNG N150/N210/N220, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 250GB TOSHIBA MK2555GS OS: Gentoo Base 2.1, Kernel: 3.4.4-gentoo (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x600 Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64): Processor: Intel Atom N450 @ 1.67GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: SAMSUNG N150/N210/N220, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 250GB TOSHIBA MK2555GS OS: Gentoo Base 2.1, Kernel: 3.4.4-gentoo (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x600 LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 1173.37 |=========================================== Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 797.02 |============================= Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 942.81 |=================================== Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 957.36 |=================================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 845.80 |============================================ Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 694.67 |==================================== Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 615.20 |================================ Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 695.43 |==================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 54.92 |===================== Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 116.24 |============================================ Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 67.28 |========================= Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 75.81 |============================= N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 1017.61 |=================================== Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 850.89 |============================= Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 1219.60 |========================================== Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 1241.23 |=========================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 8814.63 |=========================================== Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 875.76 |==== Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 1385.27 |======= Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 1316.29 |====== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 3.10 |================================== Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 3.80 |========================================== Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 4.20 |============================================== Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 4.20 |============================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 103.37 |============================================ Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 50.84 |====================== Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 75.75 |================================ Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 75.96 |================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 364.76 |============================================ Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 122.64 |=============== Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 163.11 |==================== Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 163.83 |==================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 7 |============== Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 24 |================================================ Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 10 |==================== Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 13 |========================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 3 |=========== Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 13 |================================================ Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 6 |====================== Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 7 |========================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 1 |============ Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 4 |================================================= Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 2 |========================= Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 3 |===================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 5 |============== Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 17 |================================================ Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 7 |==================== Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 11 |=============================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 2 |============== Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 7 |================================================= Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 3 |===================== Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 4 |============================ Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Cortex-A8 @1GHz (hardfp) . 820.71 |============================================ Cortex-A9 @1GHz (hardfp) . 244.24 |============= Atom N450 @1GHz (X32) .... 348.10 |=================== Atom N450 @1GHz (x86-64) . 369.58 |====================