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.
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Quad-Core Cortex-A15 big.LITTLE ARM Linux Comparison Processor Motherboard Memory Disk Graphics Chipset Audio Network Monitor OS Kernel Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Desktop PandaBoard ES Intel Atom D525 Calxeda Highbank Samsung Chromebook ARM ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 corei5-2300 ARMv7 rev 10 @ 1.20GHz (2 Cores) OMAP4 Panda board 1024MB 16GB SD16G Texas Instruments OMAP Ubuntu 12.10 3.5.0-208-omap4 (armv7l) X Server 1.12.99.904 (1.13.0 RC 4) fbdev 0.4.3 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 GCC 4.7 ext4 1920x1080 Intel Atom D525 @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores) FOXCONN NETBOX nT-435/535 Intel Atom D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx 2048MB 500GB Western Digital WD5000BEVT-2 Intel Atom D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx IGP Realtek ALC888 Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Realtek RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN 3.5.0-14-generic (x86_64) Unity 6.4.0 X Server 1.13.0 intel 2.20.6 1.4 Mesa 8.1-devel 1366x768 ARMv7 rev 0 (4 Cores) Highbank 4096MB 256GB SAMSUNG MZ7PC256 3.5.0-1000-highbank (armv7l) ARMv7 rev 4 @ 1.70GHz (2 Cores) SAMSUNG EXYNOS5 (Flattened Device Tree) 2048MB 16GB SEM16G + 64GB Ubuntu 13.04 3.4.0 (armv7l) LXDE 0.5.11 X Server 1.13.0 2.1 Mesa 9.0 1366x768 ARMv7 rev 3 @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores) ODROIDXU 8GB SD08G Ubuntu 13.10 3.4.5 (armv7l) GCC 4.8 1280x720 Intel Core i5-2300 @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores) ASUS P8H67 Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM 8192MB 640GB Western Digital WD6401AALS-0 + 1000GB Hitachi HDS72101 Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 251MB (558/702MHz) Realtek ALC887-VD L1918S Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n Debian unstable 3.11-2-amd64 (x86_64) X Server 1.14.3 nouveau 1.0.10 2.1 Mesa 9.2.2 Gallium 0.4 1280x1024 OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - PandaBoard ES: --build=arm-linux-gnueabihf --disable-libitm --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf --with-arch=armv7-a --with-float=hard --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-mode=thumb -v - Intel Atom D525: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic -v - Calxeda Highbank: --build=arm-linux-gnueabihf --disable-libitm --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf --with-arch=armv7-a --with-float=hard --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-mode=thumb -v - Samsung Chromebook ARM: --build=arm-linux-gnueabihf --disable-libitm --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf --with-arch=armv7-a --with-float=hard --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-mode=thumb -v - ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15: --build=arm-linux-gnueabihf --disable-browser-plugin --disable-libitm --disable-libquadmath --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf --with-arch-directory=arm --with-arch=armv7-a --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-float=hard --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-armhf/jre --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-armhf --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-armhf --with-mode=thumb -v - corei5-2300: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-libmudflap --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i586 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64/jre --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v Processor Details - PandaBoard ES: Scaling Governor: ondemand - Samsung Chromebook ARM: Scaling Governor: ondemand - ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15: Scaling Governor: exynos_cpufreq performance - corei5-2300: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave System Details - PandaBoard ES: Compiz was running on this system. - Intel Atom D525: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE. Compiz was running on this system. Disk Details - Intel Atom D525: DEADLINE / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Quad-Core Cortex-A15 big.LITTLE ARM Linux Comparison npb: LU.A npb: MG.B npb: SP.A npb: UA.A ffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test x264: H.264 Video Encoding smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples lammps: Rhodopsin Protein c-ray: Total Time apache: Static Web Page Serving PandaBoard ES Intel Atom D525 Calxeda Highbank Samsung Chromebook ARM ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 corei5-2300 269.00 265.31 216.80 2.04 548.78 886 4.70 2419 780.69 710.18 506.33 4.81 942.93 2089 11.35 1007 459.73 371.20 3073.42 663.59 472.82 421.51 3.57 501.69 1706 9.07 1326 464.02 390.45 4014.66 1046.43 756.09 652.36 4.01 1465.68 1698 10.84 1291 192.31 332.54 1823.63 1429.38 1106.40 925.08 5.30 1425.06 3195 692 131.49 1691.69 8646.76 5585.08 5286.23 30.92 4593.55 11075 87.18 176 38.91 30710.81 OpenBenchmarking.org
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: LU.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A corei5-2300 ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 Samsung Chromebook ARM Intel Atom D525 Calxeda Highbank PandaBoard ES 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 80.27, N = 3 SE +/- 10.28, N = 3 SE +/- 2.76, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 11.24, N = 3 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 8646.76 1429.38 1046.43 780.69 663.59 269.00 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: MG.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B corei5-2300 ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 Samsung Chromebook ARM Intel Atom D525 Calxeda Highbank PandaBoard ES 1200 2400 3600 4800 6000 SE +/- 3.20, N = 3 SE +/- 1.04, N = 3 SE +/- 4.47, N = 3 SE +/- 2.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.39, N = 3 SE +/- 0.40, N = 3 5585.08 1106.40 756.09 710.18 472.82 265.31 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: SP.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A corei5-2300 ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 Samsung Chromebook ARM Intel Atom D525 Calxeda Highbank PandaBoard ES 1100 2200 3300 4400 5500 SE +/- 64.68, N = 3 SE +/- 11.79, N = 3 SE +/- 2.77, N = 3 SE +/- 0.40, N = 3 SE +/- 4.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 5286.23 925.08 652.36 506.33 421.51 216.80 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: UA.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A corei5-2300 ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 Intel Atom D525 Samsung Chromebook ARM Calxeda Highbank PandaBoard ES 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 30.92 5.30 4.81 4.01 3.57 2.04 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
FFTE Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine corei5-2300 Samsung Chromebook ARM ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 Intel Atom D525 PandaBoard ES Calxeda Highbank 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 SE +/- 16.47, N = 3 SE +/- 5.31, N = 3 SE +/- 0.70, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 5.28, N = 3 4593.55 1465.68 1425.06 942.93 548.78 501.69 -pthread -lmpi_f90 -lmpi_f77 -lmpi -ldl -lhwloc -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lcr -lpthread -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lcr -lpthread -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lcr -lpthread 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test corei5-2300 ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 Intel Atom D525 Calxeda Highbank Samsung Chromebook ARM PandaBoard ES 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 8.97, N = 3 SE +/- 6.36, N = 3 SE +/- 5.21, N = 3 SE +/- 8.88, N = 3 SE +/- 17.17, N = 3 SE +/- 10.48, N = 3 11075 3195 2089 1706 1698 886 1. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -lpthread
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding corei5-2300 Intel Atom D525 Samsung Chromebook ARM Calxeda Highbank PandaBoard ES 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 1.17, N = 6 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 87.18 11.35 10.84 9.07 4.70
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples corei5-2300 ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 Intel Atom D525 Samsung Chromebook ARM Calxeda Highbank PandaBoard ES 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 2.96, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 1.20, N = 3 SE +/- 1.20, N = 3 SE +/- 1.53, N = 3 176 692 1007 1291 1326 2419 1. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp
LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator Test: Rhodopsin Protein OpenBenchmarking.org Loop Time, Fewer Is Better LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Samsung Chromebook ARM Intel Atom D525 Calxeda Highbank 100 200 300 400 500 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 SE +/- 1.13, N = 3 SE +/- 7.15, N = 5 192.31 459.73 464.02 1. (CXX) g++ options: -lfftw -lmpich
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time corei5-2300 ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 Samsung Chromebook ARM Intel Atom D525 Calxeda Highbank 80 160 240 320 400 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.63, N = 3 SE +/- 11.67, N = 6 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 38.91 131.49 332.54 371.20 390.45 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
Apache Benchmark Static Web Page Serving OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving corei5-2300 Calxeda Highbank Intel Atom D525 Samsung Chromebook ARM ODROID-XU Quad-Core A15 7K 14K 21K 28K 35K SE +/- 237.10, N = 3 SE +/- 57.43, N = 3 SE +/- 7.71, N = 3 SE +/- 3.82, N = 3 SE +/- 7.00, N = 3 30710.81 4014.66 3073.42 1823.63 1691.69 -lexpat 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lm -lrt -lcrypt -lpthread -ldl
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