Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARM OMAP4 Dual-Core ARM Cortex Linux
PandaBoard ES Texas Instruments OMAP4460 ARMv7 dual-core ARM Cortex A9 1.2GHz benchmarking comparing the Ubuntu Linux OMAP4 images of Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. ARM Linux benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com.


Ubuntu 11.10: 

	Processor: ARMv7 rev 10 (2 Cores), Motherboard: OMAP4 Panda board, Memory: 914MB, Disk: 16GB SD16G, Graphics: Texas Instruments OMAP

	OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-1205-omap4 (armv7l), Desktop: Unity 2D 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: fbdev 0.4.2, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: 

	Processor: ARMv7 rev 10 @ 1.20GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: OMAP4 Panda board, Memory: 904MB, Disk: 16GB SD16G, Graphics: Texas Instruments OMAP

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-1412-omap4 (armv7l), Desktop: Unity 2D 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: fbdev 0.4.2, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: BT.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 255.05 |=====================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 362.74 |====================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: LU.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 208.22 |============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 245.29 |====================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: MG.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 192.71 |=========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 241.84 |====================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: SP.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 156.32 |==============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 176.37 |====================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: UA.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 1.44 |============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 1.78 |======================================================


FFTE 5.0
Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 247.78 |============================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 467.39 |====================================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 . 156.23 |========================================================


CacheBench
Test: Read
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 1009.53 |===============================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 1676.59 |===================================================


CacheBench
Test: Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 2046.76 |============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 2397.41 |===================================================


CacheBench
Test: Read / Modify / Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 1486.94 |================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 2376.22 |===================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Composite
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 61.51  |===============================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 101.97 |====================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Monte Carlo
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 34.50 |========================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 76.81 |=====================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 15.29 |====================================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 15.67 |=====================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 68.34  |==================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 104.74 |====================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 75.85  |=====================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 107.83 |====================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 113.39 |=============================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 204.81 |====================================================


TSCP 1.81
AI Chess Performance
Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 43804 |===============================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 75346 |=====================================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 538 |==================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 859 |=======================================================


N-Queens 1.0
Elapsed Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 1372.49 |===================================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 821.79  |===============================


OpenSSL 1.0.0e
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 11.10 ..... 2.70 |================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 4.60 |======================================================


VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1
vpxenc
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 1.01 |======================================================


x264 2011-12-06
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 4.03 |======================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 1170.77 |===================================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . 591 |=======================================================