Calxeda ECX-1000 Quad-Core ARM Comparison Comparing 1.1GHz and 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank ECX-1000 Energy Card single quad-core nodes against an OMAP4460 PandaBoard ES and an x86 Intel Atom D525 CPU. Benchmarking from Ubuntu 12.10 on the Calxeda, PandaBoard ES, and Intel Atom systems. The ARM x86 tests for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Calxeda ECX-1000 Quad-Core ARM Comparison Processor Motherboard Memory Disk Graphics Chipset Audio Network OS Kernel Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Desktop System Layer PandaBoard ES Intel Atom D525 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARMv7 rev 10 @ 1.20GHz (2 Cores) OMAP4 Panda board 1024MB 16GB SD16G Texas Instruments OMAP Ubuntu 12.10 3.5.0-208-omap4 (armv7l) X Server 1.12.99.904 (1.13.0 RC 4) fbdev 0.4.3 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 GCC 4.7 ext4 1920x1080 Intel Atom D525 @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores) FOXCONN NETBOX nT-435/535 Intel Atom D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx 2048MB 500GB Western Digital WD5000BEVT-2 Intel Atom D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx IGP Realtek ALC888 Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Realtek RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN 3.5.0-14-generic (x86_64) Unity 6.4.0 X Server 1.13.0 intel 2.20.6 1.4 Mesa 8.1-devel 1366x768 ARMv7 rev 0 (4 Cores) Highbank 4096MB 256GB SAMSUNG MZ7PC256 3.5.0-1000-highbank (armv7l) ARMv7 rev 4 @ 1.70GHz (2 Cores) SAMSUNG EXYNOS5 (Flattened Device Tree) 2048MB 16GB SEM16G + 64GB Ubuntu 13.04 3.4.0 (armv7l) LXDE 0.5.11 X Server 1.13.0 2.1 Mesa 9.0 1366x768 Intel Core 2 Duo T9800 @ 2.94GHz (1 Core) Intel 440BX Intel 440BX/ZX/DX 1024MB 64GB VMware Virtual S VMware SVGA II Ensoniq ES1371 AMD 79c970 Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-34-generic-pae (i686) Unity 5.16.0 X Server 1.11.3 vesa 2.3.0 GCC 4.6 1440x804 VMware OpenBenchmarking.org System Details - PandaBoard ES: Compiz was running on this system. - Intel Atom D525: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE. Compiz was running on this system. - VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Compiz was running on this system.
Calxeda ECX-1000 Quad-Core ARM Comparison npb: LU.A npb: MG.B npb: SP.A npb: UA.A ffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test x264: H.264 Video Encoding smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples lammps: Rhodopsin Protein c-ray: Total Time apache: Static Web Page Serving PandaBoard ES Intel Atom D525 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 269.00 265.31 216.80 2.04 548.78 886 4.70 2419 780.69 710.18 506.33 4.81 942.93 2089 11.35 1007 459.73 371.20 3073.42 663.59 472.82 421.51 3.57 501.69 1706 9.07 1326 464.02 390.45 4014.66 875.04 637.66 542.46 4.53 643.43 2176 11.82 1033 365.85 303.69 5271.67 1046.43 756.09 652.36 4.01 1465.68 1698 10.84 1291 192.31 332.54 1823.63 1523.68 1044.37 1312.52 4.26 2468.77 2288 17.58 973 663.96 5428.81 OpenBenchmarking.org
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: LU.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node Intel Atom D525 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node PandaBoard ES 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 20.68, N = 3 SE +/- 2.76, N = 3 SE +/- 0.76, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 11.24, N = 3 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 1523.68 1046.43 875.04 780.69 663.59 269.00
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: MG.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu Intel Atom D525 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node PandaBoard ES 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 9.81, N = 3 SE +/- 4.47, N = 3 SE +/- 2.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.39, N = 3 SE +/- 0.40, N = 3 1044.37 756.09 710.18 637.66 472.82 265.31
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: SP.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node Intel Atom D525 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node PandaBoard ES 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 3.68, N = 3 SE +/- 2.77, N = 3 SE +/- 0.46, N = 3 SE +/- 0.40, N = 3 SE +/- 4.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 1312.52 652.36 542.46 506.33 421.51 216.80
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: UA.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Intel Atom D525 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node PandaBoard ES 1.0823 2.1646 3.2469 4.3292 5.4115 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.42, N = 6 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 4.81 4.53 4.26 4.01 3.57 2.04
FFTE Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu Intel Atom D525 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node PandaBoard ES 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 22.64, N = 3 SE +/- 16.47, N = 3 SE +/- 0.70, N = 3 SE +/- 2.44, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 5.28, N = 3 2468.77 1465.68 942.93 643.43 548.78 501.69
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node Intel Atom D525 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu PandaBoard ES 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 40.45, N = 3 SE +/- 4.67, N = 3 SE +/- 5.21, N = 3 SE +/- 8.88, N = 3 SE +/- 17.17, N = 3 SE +/- 10.48, N = 3 2288 2176 2089 1706 1698 886
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node Intel Atom D525 ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node PandaBoard ES 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 17.58 11.82 11.35 10.84 9.07 4.70
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Intel Atom D525 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node PandaBoard ES 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 14.91, N = 6 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 1.20, N = 3 SE +/- 1.20, N = 3 SE +/- 1.53, N = 3 973 1007 1033 1291 1326 2419
LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator Test: Rhodopsin Protein OpenBenchmarking.org Loop Time, Fewer Is Better LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node Intel Atom D525 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node 100 200 300 400 500 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 SE +/- 2.84, N = 3 SE +/- 1.13, N = 3 SE +/- 7.15, N = 5 192.31 365.85 459.73 464.02
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu Intel Atom D525 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 140 280 420 560 700 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 11.67, N = 6 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.89, N = 3 303.69 332.54 371.20 390.45 663.96
Apache Benchmark Static Web Page Serving OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node 1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node Intel Atom D525 ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu 1200 2400 3600 4800 6000 SE +/- 373.33, N = 6 SE +/- 6.07, N = 3 SE +/- 57.43, N = 3 SE +/- 7.71, N = 3 SE +/- 3.82, N = 3 5428.81 5271.67 4014.66 3073.42 1823.63
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