Dual-Core ARM Tegra 2 Arch Linux CompuLab Trim-Slice desktop running Ubuntu 11.04 Linux 2.6.38 kernel compared to the Arch Linux Trim-Slice build. The Trim-Slice is a NVIDIA TEGRA 2 ARM platform with a dual-core ARMv7 Cortex A9 clocked at 1.0GHz. With a SATA HDD and 1GB of RAM. Testing by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 11.04: Processor: ARMv7 rev 0 @ 1.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: trimslice, Memory: 875MB, Disk: 250GB HM251HI, Graphics: NVIDIA TEGRA, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 11.04, Kernel: 2.6.38.3-trimslice-1.01-01637-gc2b2d3e (armv7l), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.1, Display Driver: tegra, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2, Compiler: GCC 4.5.2, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Arch Linux: Processor: ARMv7 rev 0 @ 1.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: trimslice, Memory: 874MB, Disk: 250GB HM251HI + 16GB SD16G, Graphics: NVIDIA TEGRA, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Arch Linux 2011.11-trimslice, Kernel: 2.6.38.3-ARCH (armv7l), Display Driver: NVIDIA, Compiler: GCC 4.6.2, File-System: ext2, Screen Resolution: 1280x960 TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 63187 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 78.49 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 19.27 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 157.53 |======================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 48.50 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 82.99 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 84.16 |========================================================= CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 0.79 |======================= Arch Linux ... 2.00 |========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 11.24 |========================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 12.23 |========================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 2.53 |========================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 991.72 |======================================================== Arch Linux ... 958.66 |====================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 1052.38 |======================================================= Arch Linux ... 1010.49 |===================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 979.78 |======================================================== Arch Linux ... 921.54 |===================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 979.03 |======================================================== Arch Linux ... 908.55 |==================================================== CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 1425.23 |======================================================= Arch Linux ... 1326.44 |=================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 835.36 |======================================================== CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 2840.96 |======================================================= Arch Linux ... 2637.33 |=================================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 2050.88 |======================================================= Arch Linux ... 1949.14 |==================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 70.66 |========================================================= Arch Linux ... 59.78 |================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 131.01 |======================================================== Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 117.62 |======================================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 89.58 |========================================================= Ogg Encoding 1.2.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 83.67 |========================================================= dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 199.74 |======================================================== Arch Linux ... 191.98 |====================================================== Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher Microseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 12647 |========================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 4.47 |========================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 17.10 |========================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 8.13 |========================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 4.57 |========================================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 18.75 |========================================================= IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 8.72 |========================================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 18.36 |========================================================= IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 6.68 |========================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 309.76 |======================================================== Arch Linux ... 303.37 |======================================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 187.75 |======================================================== Arch Linux ... 188.18 |======================================================== Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 452.15 |= Arch Linux ... 32460.38 |====================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 99.58 |========================================================= Arch Linux ... 92.33 |===================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 350.15 |======================================================== Arch Linux ... 327.72 |==================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 60.60 |==================================================== Arch Linux ... 65.80 |========================================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 8.45 |========================================================== Arch Linux ... 8.28 |========================================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 209.38 |======================================================== Arch Linux ... 201.98 |====================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 222.96 |======================================================== Arch Linux ... 202.88 |=================================================== Loopback TCP Network Performance Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 506.40 |======================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 166.00 |======================================================== Arch Linux ... 160.89 |====================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 1.32 |======================================================= Arch Linux ... 1.40 |========================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 43 |============================================================ N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 996.66 |======================================================== Arch Linux ... 920.01 |==================================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 1204.51 |======================================================= Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 663.36 |======================================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.2.17 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 438.34 |======================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 746 |=========================================================== Arch Linux ... 721 |========================================================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 207.17 |======================================================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 1 |============================================================= Arch Linux ... 1 |============================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 20 |========================================================= Arch Linux ... 21 |============================================================ Sample Pi Program Phoronix Test Suite v3.8.0m0 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 35.75 |========================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 11 |============================================================ Arch Linux ... 9 |================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 6 |============================================================= Arch Linux ... 4 |========================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 14 |============================================================ Arch Linux ... 13 |======================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 9 |============================================================= Arch Linux ... 6 |========================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 1308.71 |================================================= Arch Linux ... 1481.52 |======================================================= POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 6865 |==================================================== Arch Linux ... 7724 |========================================================== FFmpeg 0.8.7 AVI To NTSC VCD Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 296.42 |======================================================== Arch Linux ... 238.19 |============================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 2889 |==================================================== Arch Linux ... 3213 |========================================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 50777 |========================================================= BlogBench 1.0 Test: Write Final Score > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 168 |=========================================================== NGINX Benchmark 0.8.53 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 1959.39 |======================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.2.17 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 231.59 |============== Arch Linux ... 925.66 |======================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 3.73 |========================================================== Arch Linux ... 3.55 |======================================================= Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 125.92 |===================================================== Arch Linux ... 133.80 |======================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 13.92 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 534.41 |======================================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 8770 |========================================================== SQLite 3.7.3 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 908.17 |======================================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 2648351.63 |==================================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Register Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 1 |============================================================= BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Integer Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 1 |============================================================= BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Floating-Point Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 1 |============================================================= Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 216.19 |============================================= Arch Linux ... 267.96 |======================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 165.04 |======================================================== GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 95.02 |========================================================= PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.04 . 18793 |=========================================================