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

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

Parallella 1.0 ARM cores only: 

	Processor: ARMv7 rev 0 (2 Cores), Motherboard: Xilinx Zynq, Memory: 485MB, Disk: 8GB SD08G

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-xillinux-1.1+ (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768

ODROID-XU Linaro 14.02: 

	Processor: Exynos ARMv7 rev 3 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAMSUNG EXYNOS5 (Flattened Device Tree), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 32GB SU32G

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0+ (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768


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 |====================================
XU Debian Jessie .............. 1520.45 |======================================
Parallella 1.0 ARM cores only . 201.01  |=====
ODROID-XU Linaro 14.02 ........ 1471.41 |=====================================


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 |===========================================
XU Debian Jessie ........ 1121.41 |============================================
ODROID-XU Linaro 14.02 .. 1043.52 |=========================================


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 |======================================
XU Debian Jessie .............. 954.31 |=======================================
Parallella 1.0 ARM cores only . 143.26 |======
ODROID-XU Linaro 14.02 ........ 952.13 |=======================================


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 |========================================
XU Debian Jessie .............. 5.39 |=========================================
Parallella 1.0 ARM cores only . 1.39 |===========
ODROID-XU Linaro 14.02 ........ 5.19 |=======================================


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 |===========================================
XU Debian Jessie ........ 1391.93 |==========================================
ODROID-XU Linaro 14.02 .. 1432.40 |===========================================


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 |======================================
XU Debian Jessie .............. 3130 |=====================================
Parallella 1.0 ARM cores only . 543  |======
ODROID-XU Linaro 14.02 ........ 3452 |=========================================


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 |=============================================


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  |======
XU Debian Jessie .............. 664  |======
Parallella 1.0 ARM cores only . 4460 |=========================================
ODROID-XU Linaro 14.02 ........ 1183 |===========


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 |===================
XU Debian Jessie ....... 185.85 |==================
ODROID-XU Linaro 14.02 . 186.84 |===================


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  |===
XU Debian Jessie .............. 125.53  |===
Parallella 1.0 ARM cores only . 1871.56 |======================================
ODROID-XU Linaro 14.02 ........ 140.25  |===


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 |================
XU Debian Jessie .............. 1631.95 |===============
Parallella 1.0 ARM cores only . 1498.31 |==============
ODROID-XU Linaro 14.02 ........ 4048.57 |======================================