AMD AM1 APUs vs. NVIDIA Tegra K1 Jetson TK1 Comparing the various AMD AM1 APUs on Ubuntu Linux against the NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ARM development board with the Tegra K1 SoC. All benchmarks under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com AMD Sempron 2650: Processor: AMD Sempron 2650 APU with Radeon R3 @ 1.45GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS AM1I-A, Chipset: AMD Family 16h Root Complex, Memory: 3584MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 8240 512MB, Audio: AMD Device 9840, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.14.0-031400-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.2.0-devel (git-4d64180 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD Sempron 3850: Processor: AMD Sempron 3850 APU with Radeon R3 @ 1.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS AM1I-A, Chipset: AMD Family 16h Root Complex, Memory: 3584MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 8280 512MB, Audio: AMD Device 9840, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.14.0-031400-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.2.0-devel (git-4d64180 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD Athlon 5150: Processor: AMD Athlon 5150 APU with Radeon R3 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS AM1I-A, Chipset: AMD Family 16h Root Complex, Memory: 3584MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 8400 512MB, Audio: AMD Device 9840, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.14.0-031400-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.2.0-devel (git-4d64180 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD Athlon 5350: Processor: AMD Athlon 5350 APU with Radeon R3 @ 2.05GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS AM1I-A, Chipset: AMD Family 16h Root Complex, Memory: 3584MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 8400 512MB, Audio: AMD Device 9840, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.14.0-031400-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.2.0-devel (git-4d64180 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 NVIDIA Jetson TK1: Processor: ARMv7 rev 3 @ 2.32GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: laguna, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 16GB SEM16G, Graphics: GK20A/AXI, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.10.24-g6a2d13a (armv7l), Desktop: Unity 7.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 19.2, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD Athlon 5350 Gentoo: Processor: AMD Athlon 5350 APU with Radeon R3 @ 2.05GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte AM1M-S2H, Memory: 3584MB, Disk: 120GB SSD2SC120GC1DA16, Graphics: 512MB, Monitor: DELL S2340L OS: Gentoo Base 2.2, Kernel: 3.14.2-gentoo (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + LLVM 3.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 ....... 116.74 |============================================= AMD Sempron 3850 ....... 120.43 |============================================== AMD Athlon 5150 ........ 99.74 |====================================== AMD Athlon 5350 ........ 79.99 |=============================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ...... 108.51 |========================================= AMD Athlon 5350 Gentoo . 78.17 |============================== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 .. 214.51 |=================================================== AMD Sempron 3850 .. 214.22 |=================================================== AMD Athlon 5150 ... 175.86 |========================================== AMD Athlon 5350 ... 142.51 |================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 172.50 |========================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 ....... 48.35 |=============================================== AMD Sempron 3850 ....... 29.62 |============================= AMD Athlon 5150 ........ 23.96 |======================= AMD Athlon 5350 ........ 19.34 |=================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ...... 16.10 |================ AMD Athlon 5350 Gentoo . 19.73 |=================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 ....... 287.63 |================================= AMD Sempron 3850 ....... 277.27 |================================ AMD Athlon 5150 ........ 329.68 |====================================== AMD Athlon 5350 ........ 399.01 |============================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ...... 351.19 |======================================== AMD Athlon 5350 Gentoo . 381.42 |============================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 ....... 142.77 |============================ AMD Sempron 3850 ....... 129.17 |========================== AMD Athlon 5150 ........ 157.49 |=============================== AMD Athlon 5350 ........ 201.92 |======================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ...... 231.92 |============================================== AMD Athlon 5350 Gentoo . 220.79 |============================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 ....... 424.90 |================================= AMD Sempron 3850 ....... 427.25 |================================= AMD Athlon 5150 ........ 500.98 |======================================= AMD Athlon 5350 ........ 589.00 |============================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ...... 376.25 |============================= AMD Athlon 5350 Gentoo . 485.17 |====================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 ....... 398.96 |================================ AMD Sempron 3850 ....... 362.72 |============================= AMD Athlon 5150 ........ 444.95 |==================================== AMD Athlon 5350 ........ 566.67 |============================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ...... 480.89 |======================================= AMD Athlon 5350 Gentoo . 567.00 |============================================== x264 2014-01-09 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 .. 14.72 |=================== AMD Sempron 3850 .. 26.08 |================================== AMD Athlon 5150 ... 31.74 |========================================== AMD Athlon 5350 ... 39.73 |==================================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 32.35 |========================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 ....... 285.40 |============================================== AMD Sempron 3850 ....... 190.03 |=============================== AMD Athlon 5150 ........ 158.81 |========================== AMD Athlon 5350 ........ 129.09 |===================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ...... 138.16 |====================== AMD Athlon 5350 Gentoo . 110.90 |================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 ....... 641.12 |============================================== AMD Sempron 3850 ....... 363.74 |========================== AMD Athlon 5150 ........ 310.91 |====================== AMD Athlon 5350 ........ 262.52 |=================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ...... 397.58 |============================= AMD Athlon 5350 Gentoo . 254.05 |================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 ....... 204.16 |============================================== AMD Sempron 3850 ....... 114.00 |========================== AMD Athlon 5150 ........ 92.49 |===================== AMD Athlon 5350 ........ 72.15 |================ NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ...... 113.90 |========================== AMD Athlon 5350 Gentoo . 84.79 |=================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 ....... 24.58 |========================================== AMD Sempron 3850 ....... 27.39 |=============================================== AMD Athlon 5150 ........ 22.25 |====================================== AMD Athlon 5350 ........ 17.35 |============================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ...... 15.90 |=========================== AMD Athlon 5350 Gentoo . 16.09 |============================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 ....... 53.33 |========================================== AMD Sempron 3850 ....... 59.33 |=============================================== AMD Athlon 5150 ........ 48.34 |====================================== AMD Athlon 5350 ........ 37.61 |============================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ...... 37.98 |============================== AMD Athlon 5350 Gentoo . 36.25 |============================= Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 Test: FLOAT QUIPs > Higher Is Better AMD Sempron 2650 ....... 94704054.94 |============================ AMD Sempron 3850 ....... 84905699.45 |========================= AMD Athlon 5150 ........ 104598539.86 |=============================== AMD Athlon 5350 ........ 134231671.35 |======================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ...... 105341680.13 |=============================== AMD Athlon 5350 Gentoo . 134075196.64 |========================================