Quad-Core Cortex-A15 big.LITTLE ARM Linux Comparison
Comparing different ARM and x86 systems, in particular looking at the ARM Cortex-A15 quad-core + Cortex-A7 quad-core big.LITTLE configuration from a Samsung Exynos 5 Octa SoC on the Hardkernel ODROID-XUs. 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

Calxeda Highbank: 

	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

Samsung Chromebook ARM: 

	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

ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15: 

	Processor: ARMv7 rev 3 @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ODROIDXU, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 8GB SD08G

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.4.5 (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x720

corei5-2300: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8H67, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 640GB Western Digital WD6401AALS-0 + 1000GB Hitachi HDS72101, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 251MB (558/702MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: L1918S, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n

	OS: Debian unstable, Kernel: 3.11-2-amd64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: LU.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
PandaBoard ES ........... 269.00  |=
Intel Atom D525 ......... 780.69  |====
Calxeda Highbank ........ 663.59  |===
Samsung Chromebook ARM .. 1046.43 |=====
ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 . 1429.38 |=======
corei5-2300 ............. 8646.76 |============================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: MG.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
PandaBoard ES ........... 265.31  |==
Intel Atom D525 ......... 710.18  |======
Calxeda Highbank ........ 472.82  |====
Samsung Chromebook ARM .. 756.09  |======
ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 . 1106.40 |=========
corei5-2300 ............. 5585.08 |============================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: SP.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
PandaBoard ES ........... 216.80  |==
Intel Atom D525 ......... 506.33  |====
Calxeda Highbank ........ 421.51  |====
Samsung Chromebook ARM .. 652.36  |=====
ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 . 925.08  |========
corei5-2300 ............. 5286.23 |============================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: UA.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
PandaBoard ES ........... 2.04  |===
Intel Atom D525 ......... 4.81  |=======
Calxeda Highbank ........ 3.57  |=====
Samsung Chromebook ARM .. 4.01  |======
ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 . 5.30  |========
corei5-2300 ............. 30.92 |==============================================


FFTE 5.0
Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
PandaBoard ES ........... 548.78  |=====
Intel Atom D525 ......... 942.93  |=========
Calxeda Highbank ........ 501.69  |=====
Samsung Chromebook ARM .. 1465.68 |==============
ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 . 1425.06 |==============
corei5-2300 ............. 4593.55 |============================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
PandaBoard ES ........... 886   |====
Intel Atom D525 ......... 2089  |=========
Calxeda Highbank ........ 1706  |=======
Samsung Chromebook ARM .. 1698  |=======
ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 . 3195  |=============
corei5-2300 ............. 11075 |==============================================


x264 2011-12-06
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
PandaBoard ES .......... 4.70  |===
Intel Atom D525 ........ 11.35 |======
Calxeda Highbank ....... 9.07  |=====
Samsung Chromebook ARM . 10.84 |======
corei5-2300 ............ 87.18 |===============================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
PandaBoard ES ........... 2419 |===============================================
Intel Atom D525 ......... 1007 |====================
Calxeda Highbank ........ 1326 |==========================
Samsung Chromebook ARM .. 1291 |=========================
ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 . 692  |=============
corei5-2300 ............. 176  |===


LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0
Test: Rhodopsin Protein
Loop Time < Lower Is Better
Intel Atom D525 ........ 459.73 |==============================================
Calxeda Highbank ....... 464.02 |==============================================
Samsung Chromebook ARM . 192.31 |===================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Atom D525 ......... 371.20 |===========================================
Calxeda Highbank ........ 390.45 |=============================================
Samsung Chromebook ARM .. 332.54 |======================================
ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 . 131.49 |===============
corei5-2300 ............. 38.91  |====


Apache Benchmark 2.2.21
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel Atom D525 ......... 3073.42  |====
Calxeda Highbank ........ 4014.66  |======
Samsung Chromebook ARM .. 1823.63  |===
ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 . 1691.69  |==
corei5-2300 ............. 30710.81 |===========================================