Calxeda ECX-1000 vs. NVIDIA Tegra Jetson Comparison
Comparing 1.1GHz and 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank ECX-1000 Energy Card to the NVIDIA Tegra X1 for kicks. Benchmarks for a future article.


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

1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node: 

	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

1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node: 

	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

NVIDIA Jetson TX1: 

	Processor: Cortex A57 rev 1 @ 1.91GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: jetson_tx1, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 16GB 016G32 + 16GB SL16G, Graphics: NVIDIA TEGRA

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.10.67-g3a5c467 (aarch64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.4 + CUDA 7.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: LU.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Atom D525 .............. 780.69  |==============
1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 663.59  |============
1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 875.04  |================
NVIDIA Jetson TX1 ............ 2185.44 |=======================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: MG.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Atom D525 .............. 710.18  |===============
1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 472.82  |==========
1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 637.66  |=============
NVIDIA Jetson TX1 ............ 1882.97 |=======================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: SP.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Atom D525 .............. 506.33  |============
1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 421.51  |==========
1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 542.46  |=============
NVIDIA Jetson TX1 ............ 1622.53 |=======================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: UA.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Intel Atom D525 .............. 4.81  |==================
1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 3.57  |=============
1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 4.53  |=================
NVIDIA Jetson TX1 ............ 11.12 |=========================================


FFTE 5.0
Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Intel Atom D525 .............. 942.93  |==================
1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 501.69  |==========
1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 643.43  |============
NVIDIA Jetson TX1 ............ 2044.49 |=======================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Intel Atom D525 .............. 2089 |====================
1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 1706 |=================
1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 2176 |=====================
NVIDIA Jetson TX1 ............ 4280 |==========================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Atom D525 .............. 1007 |================================
1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 1326 |==========================================
1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 1033 |=================================
NVIDIA Jetson TX1 ............ 613  |===================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Atom D525 .............. 371.20 |======================================
1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 390.45 |========================================
1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node . 303.69 |===============================
NVIDIA Jetson TX1 ............ 87.58  |=========