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 1.1GHz 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 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 ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu: Processor: ARMv7 rev 4 @ 1.70GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: SAMSUNG EXYNOS5 (Flattened Device Tree), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 16GB SEM16G + 64GB OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.4.0 (armv7l), Desktop: LXDE 0.5.11, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Arndale: Processor: ARMv7 rev 4 (2 Cores), Motherboard: SAMSUNG EXYNOS5 (Flattened Device Tree), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 4GB M4G1FA OS: Linaro 12.10, Kernel: 3.6.0-10608-g01e579b (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.6, 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 |===================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 663.59 |================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 875.04 |======================= ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu . 1046.43 |============================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better PandaBoard ES ........................... 265.31 |========== Intel Atom D525 ......................... 710.18 |=========================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 472.82 |================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 637.66 |======================== ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu . 756.09 |============================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better PandaBoard ES ........................... 216.80 |========== Intel Atom D525 ......................... 506.33 |======================= 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 421.51 |=================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 542.46 |======================== ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu . 652.36 |============================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better PandaBoard ES ........................... 2.04 |============= Intel Atom D525 ......................... 4.81 |=============================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 3.57 |======================= 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 4.53 |============================= ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu . 4.01 |========================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better PandaBoard ES ........................... 548.78 |========== Intel Atom D525 ......................... 942.93 |================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 501.69 |========== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 643.43 |============ ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu . 1465.68 |============================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better PandaBoard ES ........................... 886 |============= Intel Atom D525 ......................... 2089 |============================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 1706 |======================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 2176 |=============================== ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu . 1698 |======================== Arndale ................................. 1699 |======================== x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PandaBoard ES ........................... 4.70 |============ Intel Atom D525 ......................... 11.35 |============================= 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 9.07 |======================= 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 11.82 |============================== ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu . 10.84 |============================ Arndale ................................. 8.86 |====================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better PandaBoard ES ........................... 2419 | Intel Atom D525 ......................... 1007 | 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 1326 | 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 1033 | ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu . 1291 | Arndale ................................. 451144571 |========================== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Intel Atom D525 ......................... 459.73 |============================= 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 464.02 |============================= 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 365.85 |======================= ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu . 192.31 |============ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Atom D525 ......................... 371.20 |===================== 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 390.45 |====================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 303.69 |================= ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu . 332.54 |================== Arndale ................................. 524.77 |============================= Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Atom D525 ......................... 3073.42 |================ 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 4014.66 |===================== 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ............ 5271.67 |============================ ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu . 1823.63 |========== Arndale ................................. 2711.44 |==============