Linaro 12.08 OMAP4 PandaBoard ES Performance Linaro 12.08 benchmarks from a PandaBoard ES with Texas Instruments OMAP4460 ARM SoC. Linaro 12.08 performance compared to various Ubuntu Linux OMAP4 releases. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel 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 Ubuntu 12.10 20120821: Processor: ARMv7 rev 10 @ 1.20GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: OMAP4 Panda board, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 16GB SD16G, Graphics: Texas Instruments OMAP OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-208-omap4 (armv7l), Display Server: X Server 1.12.99.904 (1.13.0 RC 4), Display Driver: fbdev 0.4.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linaro 12.08: Processor: ARMv7 rev 10 @ 1.20GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: OMAP4 Panda board, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 16GB SD16G, Graphics: Texas Instruments OMAP, Monitor: DELL P2210H OS: Linaro 12.08, Kernel: 3.4.0-2-linaro-lt-omap (armv7l), Desktop: Unity 2D 5.14.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .......... 43804 |============================ Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 75346 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 73905 |=============================================== Linaro 12.08 .......... 75172 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .......... 61.51 |============================ Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 101.97 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 81.27 |===================================== Linaro 12.08 .......... 80.07 |===================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .......... 34.50 |====================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 76.81 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 75.04 |=============================================== Linaro 12.08 .......... 76.59 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .......... 15.29 |==================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 15.67 |===================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 20.24 |================================================ Linaro 12.08 .......... 16.12 |====================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .......... 68.34 |=============================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 104.74 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 72.57 |================================= Linaro 12.08 .......... 73.14 |================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .......... 75.85 |================================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 107.83 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 74.70 |================================= Linaro 12.08 .......... 72.96 |================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .......... 113.39 |========================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 204.81 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 163.78 |====================================== Linaro 12.08 .......... 161.53 |===================================== CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .......... 1009.53 |========================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 1676.59 |============================================ Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 1761.32 |============================================== Linaro 12.08 .......... 1695.92 |============================================ CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .......... 2046.76 |====================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 2397.41 |========================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 4211.66 |============================================== Linaro 12.08 .......... 1653.44 |================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .......... 1486.94 |==================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 2376.22 |================================ Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 3371.94 |============================================== Linaro 12.08 .......... 2479.87 |================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .......... 156.23 |=============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 92.53 |============================ Linaro 12.08 .......... 95.43 |============================= 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 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 431.44 |=============================================== 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 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 269.00 |=============================================== 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 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 265.31 |=============================================== 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 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 216.80 |=============================================== 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 |=========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 2.04 |================================================= 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 |======================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 548.78 |=============================================== N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .......... 1372.49 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 821.79 |============================ Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 743.40 |========================= Linaro 12.08 .......... 823.46 |============================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 11.10 .......... 538 |============================= Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 859 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 886 |=============================================== Linaro 12.08 .......... 935 |================================================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 1.01 |================================================= Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 1.02 |================================================= Linaro 12.08 .......... 1.01 |================================================= x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 4.03 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 4.70 |================================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...... 591 |============ Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 2419 |================================================ Linaro 12.08 .......... 2482 |================================================= 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 |================================================= Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 . 4.60 |================================================= Linaro 12.08 .......... 4.60 |=================================================