Calxeda ECX-1000 Quad-Core ARM Comparison Comparing 1.1GHz and 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank ECX-1000 Energy Card single quad-core nodes against an OMAP4460 PandaBoard ES and an x86 Intel Atom D525 CPU. Benchmarking from Ubuntu 12.10 on the Calxeda, PandaBoard ES, and Intel Atom systems. The ARM x86 tests for a future article on Phoronix.com. PandaBoard ES: Processor: ARMv7 rev 10 @ 1.20GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: OMAP4 Panda board, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 16GB SD16G, Graphics: Texas Instruments OMAP OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-208-omap4 (armv7l), Display Server: X Server 1.12.99.904 (1.13.0 RC 4), Display Driver: fbdev 0.4.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel Atom D525: Processor: Intel Atom D525 @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: FOXCONN NETBOX nT-435/535, Chipset: Intel Atom D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000BEVT-2, Graphics: Intel Atom D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx IGP, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Realtek RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-14-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: intel 2.20.6, OpenGL: 1.4 Mesa 8.1-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node: Processor: ARMv7 rev 0 (4 Cores), Motherboard: Highbank, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 256GB SAMSUNG MZ7PC256 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-1000-highbank (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node: Processor: ARMv7 rev 0 (4 Cores), Motherboard: Highbank, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 256GB SAMSUNG MZ7PC256 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-1000-highbank (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better PandaBoard ES ................ 269.00 |============ Intel Atom D525 .............. 780.69 |==================================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 875.04 |======================================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 663.59 |============================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better PandaBoard ES ................ 265.31 |=============== Intel Atom D525 .............. 710.18 |======================================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 637.66 |==================================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 472.82 |=========================== x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PandaBoard ES ................ 4.70 |================ Intel Atom D525 .............. 11.35 |======================================= 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 11.82 |========================================= 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 9.07 |=============================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better PandaBoard ES ................ 216.80 |================ Intel Atom D525 .............. 506.33 |===================================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 542.46 |======================================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 421.51 |=============================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better PandaBoard ES ................ 886 |================= Intel Atom D525 .............. 2089 |======================================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 2176 |========================================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 1706 |================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better PandaBoard ES ................ 2419 |========================================== Intel Atom D525 .............. 1007 |================= 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 1033 |================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 1326 |======================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better PandaBoard ES ................ 2.04 |================== Intel Atom D525 .............. 4.81 |========================================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 4.53 |======================================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 3.57 |=============================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better PandaBoard ES ................ 548.78 |======================= Intel Atom D525 .............. 942.93 |======================================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 643.43 |=========================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 501.69 |===================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Atom D525 .............. 3073.42 |======================= 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 5271.67 |======================================= 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 4014.66 |============================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Atom D525 .............. 371.20 |====================================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 303.69 |=============================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 390.45 |======================================== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Intel Atom D525 .............. 459.73 |======================================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 365.85 |================================ 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 464.02 |========================================