64-bit ARM Linaro Debian HiKey Performance Benchmarks by Michael larabel. 64-bit ARM AArch64 HiKey 8-Core: Processor: AArch64 rev 3 @ 1.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: HiKey Development Board, Memory: 879MB, Disk: 4GB MMC04G OS: Debian 8.0, Kernel: 3.18.0-linaro-hikey (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1440 MacBook vs arm 8: Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 3.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 500 28GB APPLE SSD SM0512F, Graphics: Intel Iris 1536MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.10.2, Kernel: 14.1.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.15.2, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.56) (based on LLVM 3.5svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 6.1.1, File-System: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 64-bit ARM AArch64 HiKey 8-Core . 179.99 |===================================== MacBook vs arm 8 ................ 61.07 |============= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better 64-bit ARM AArch64 HiKey 8-Core . 1193 |=======================================