Samsung ARM Cortex A15 Dual vs. NVIDIA Tegra 3 Exynos ARMv7 rev 4 testing on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com. ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual: Processor: Exynos ARMv7 rev 4 @ 1.70GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: SAMSUNG EXYNOS5 (Flattened Device Tree), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 16GB SEM16G OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.4.0 (armv7l), Desktop: Unity 2D 5.16.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04: Processor: ARMv7 rev 9 @ 1.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: cardhu, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 16GB SEM16G + 32GB SD32G, Graphics: NVIDIA TEGRA, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.1.10-gfc993d9 (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1366x1536 NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10: Processor: ARMv7 rev 9 @ 1.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: cardhu, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 16GB SEM16G + 32GB SD32G, Graphics: NVIDIA TEGRA, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.1.10-gfc993d9 (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1366x1536 ArndaleGCC4.7: Processor: ARMv7 rev 4 (2 Cores), Motherboard: SAMSUNG EXYNOS5 (Flattened Device Tree), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 4GB M4G1FA + 8GB SD08G OS: Linaro 12.11, Kernel: 3.6.0-10612-g9d11689 (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4 ODROID-XU: Processor: ARMv7 rev 3 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ODROIDXU, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 8GB SU08G OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.4.5 (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: msdos, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 XU Debian Jessie: Processor: ARMv7 rev 3 @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ODROIDXU, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 8GB SU08G OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.4.67 (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x720 Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 6251.24 |====================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 1523.82 |========= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 1387.16 |======== ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 5708.64 |================================== ODROID-XU ..................... 6303.78 |====================================== XU Debian Jessie .............. 5999.93 |==================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 6114.15 |===================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 1519.35 |========= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 1339.67 |======== ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 5347.16 |================================ ODROID-XU ..................... 6348.50 |====================================== XU Debian Jessie .............. 6070.00 |==================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 5189.58 |=================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 1273.09 |========= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 1268.61 |========= ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 4421.42 |============================== ODROID-XU ..................... 5599.31 |====================================== XU Debian Jessie .............. 5255.35 |==================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 5656.60 |====================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 1286.18 |========= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 1285.26 |========= ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 4860.18 |================================= ODROID-XU ..................... 5591.15 |====================================== XU Debian Jessie .............. 5239.28 |=================================== CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 1.64 |=================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 0.74 |======== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 0.74 |======== ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 1.83 |===================== ODROID-XU ..................... 3.55 |========================================= XU Debian Jessie .............. 3.58 |========================================= Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 159.98 |============= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 477.22 |======================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 462.43 |====================================== ODROID-XU ..................... 166.46 |============== XU Debian Jessie .............. 165.20 |============== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 1484.87 |====================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 544.44 |============== ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 871.52 |====================== ODROID-XU ..................... 1433.83 |===================================== XU Debian Jessie .............. 1392.16 |==================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 115.11 |============ NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 366.29 |======================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 367.38 |======================================= ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 193.37 |===================== XU Debian Jessie .............. 75.82 |======== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 37.35 |========================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 59.45 |======================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 51.20 |================================== ODROID-XU ..................... 21.96 |=============== XU Debian Jessie .............. 23.30 |================ CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 2572.44 |====================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 1933.82 |============================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 1939.55 |============================= ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 1523.09 |====================== XU Debian Jessie .............. 2426.90 |==================================== CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 3723.55 |================================ NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 2827.60 |========================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 2848.20 |========================= ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 2678.23 |======================= XU Debian Jessie .............. 4362.15 |====================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 7115.32 |====================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 2878.20 |=============== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 2862.32 |=============== ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 4513.38 |======================== XU Debian Jessie .............. 7120.83 |====================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 270.01 |========================================== ODROID-XU .................. 261.20 |========================================= XU Debian Jessie ........... 254.58 |======================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 160.86 |========================================== ODROID-XU .................. 159.43 |========================================== XU Debian Jessie ........... 159.78 |========================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 36.35 |=============================== ODROID-XU .................. 47.82 |========================================= XU Debian Jessie ........... 50.69 |=========================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 339.64 |========================================= ODROID-XU .................. 344.21 |========================================== XU Debian Jessie ........... 337.40 |========================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 455.45 |========================================== ODROID-XU .................. 429.76 |======================================== XU Debian Jessie ........... 414.09 |====================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 357.75 |========================================== ODROID-XU .................. 324.79 |====================================== XU Debian Jessie ........... 312.21 |===================================== TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 146265 |========================================== ODROID-XU .................. 134895 |======================================= XU Debian Jessie ........... 136041 |======================================= VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 1.43 |================================ NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 0.40 |========= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 0.40 |========= ODROID-XU ..................... 1.86 |========================================= XU Debian Jessie .............. 1.85 |========================================= x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 10.14 |======================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 8.32 |================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 8.18 |================================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 1685 |====================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 1499 |=================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 1513 |==================== ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 1087 |============== ODROID-XU ..................... 3179 |========================================= XU Debian Jessie .............. 3143 |========================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 312.00 |====================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 559.11 |======================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 539.61 |====================================== ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 550.28 |====================================== ODROID-XU ..................... 143.06 |========== XU Debian Jessie .............. 132.67 |========= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 84.57 |============================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 113.99 |======================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 109.38 |===================================== ODROID-XU ..................... 45.95 |================ XU Debian Jessie .............. 44.82 |=============== Primesieve 4.0 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 832.95 |========================================== ODROID-XU .................. 473.51 |======================== XU Debian Jessie ........... 466.11 |======================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 1177 |=========== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 4276 |========================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 4264 |========================================= ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 2019 |=================== ODROID-XU ..................... 664 |====== XU Debian Jessie .............. 663 |====== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 0.06 |============================================ ODROID-XU .................. 0.05 |===================================== XU Debian Jessie ........... 0.05 |===================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 142.27 |======================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 91.72 |========================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 91.47 |========================= ODROID-XU ..................... 53.08 |=============== XU Debian Jessie .............. 52.08 |============== Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 31.53 |=========================================== FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 159.16 |=============== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 422.99 |======================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 424.07 |======================================= ODROID-XU ..................... 133.92 |============ POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 1937 |================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 4731 |========================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 4704 |========================================= ODROID-XU ..................... 2134 |================== XU Debian Jessie .............. 2151 |=================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 9.90 |========================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 5.90 |======================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 5.90 |======================== PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 8421 |======================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 13964 |======================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 13346 |====================================== ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 13271 |====================================== ODROID-XU ..................... 8549 |======================== XU Debian Jessie .............. 8719 |========================= NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 3273.57 |====================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 2146.61 |========================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 2131.78 |========================= ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 2848.20 |================================= PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 22050 |=================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 13224 |===================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 13486 |====================== ArndaleGCC4.7 ................. 14729 |======================== ODROID-XU ..................... 24738 |======================================== XU Debian Jessie .............. 24927 |========================================