Samsung ARM Cortex A15 Dual vs. NVIDIA Tegra 3

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Samsung ARM Cortex A15 Dual vs. NVIDIA Tegra 3ProcessorMotherboardMemoryDiskGraphicsNetworkOSKernelDesktopDisplay ServerCompilerFile-SystemScreen ResolutionARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz DualNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10Exynos ARMv7 rev 4 @ 1.70GHz (2 Cores)SAMSUNG EXYNOS5 (Flattened Device Tree)2048MB16GB SEM16GUbuntu 12.043.4.0 (armv7l)Unity 2D 5.16.0X Server 1.11.3GCC 4.7ext41366x768ARMv7 rev 9 @ 1.40GHz (4 Cores)cardhu1024MB16GB SEM16G + 32GB SD32GNVIDIA TEGRARealtek RTL8111/8168B3.1.10-gfc993d9 (armv7l)GCC 4.6ext31366x1536Ubuntu 12.10OpenBenchmarking.orgCompiler Details- ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual: --build=arm-linux-gnueabihf --disable-libitm --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf --with-arch=armv7-a --with-float=hard --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-mode=thumb -v - NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04: --build=arm-linux-gnueabihf --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf --with-arch=armv7-a --with-float=hard --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-mode=thumb -v - NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10: --build=arm-linux-gnueabihf --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf --with-arch=armv7-a --with-float=hard --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-mode=thumb -v Processor Details- Scaling Governor: ondemandSystem Details- Python 2.7.3.

ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz DualNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10Result OverviewPhoronix Test Suite100%185%269%354%439%StreamSmallptVP8 libvpx EncodingTimed HMMer SearchDolfynFFmpegPOV-RayCLOMPC-RayPyBenchOpenSSLPHPBenchCacheBenchTimed MAFFT AlignmentLAME MP3 EncodingNGINX BenchmarkParallel BZIP2 Compressionx2647-Zip Compression

Samsung ARM Cortex A15 Dual vs. NVIDIA Tegra 3tscp: AI Chess Performancescimark2: Compositescimark2: Monte Carloscimark2: Fast Fourier Transformscimark2: Sparse Matrix Multiplyscimark2: Dense LU Matrix Factorizationscimark2: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxationcrafty: Elapsed Timeclomp: Static OMP Speedupstream: Copystream: Scalestream: Triadstream: Addcachebench: Readcachebench: Writecachebench: Read / Modify / Writeencode-mp3: WAV To MP3encode-ogg: WAV To Ogghmmer: Pfam Database Searchmafft: Multiple Sequence Alignmentdolfyn: Computational Fluid Dynamicsffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routineprimesieve: 1e12 Prime Number Generationcompress-7zip: Compress Speed Testcompress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compressionvpxenc: vpxencx264: H.264 Video Encodingc-ray: Total Timepovray: Total Timeffmpeg: H.264 HD To NTSC DVsmallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samplesnginx: Static Web Page Servingopenssl: RSA 4096-bit Performancephpbench: PHP Benchmark Suitepybench: Total For Average Test TimesARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz DualNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10146265270.01160.8636.35339.64455.45357.750.061.646251.246114.155189.585656.602572.443723.557115.32142.2731.53115.1137.35159.981484.87832.95168584.571.4310.14312.001937159.1611773273.579.902205084210.741523.821519.351273.091286.181933.822827.602878.2091.72366.2959.45477.22544.441499113.990.408.32559.114731422.9942762146.615.9013224139640.741387.161339.671268.611285.261939.552848.202862.3291.47367.3851.20462.431513109.380.408.18539.614704424.0742642131.785.901348613346OpenBenchmarking.org

TSCP

OpenBenchmarking.orgNodes Per Second, More Is BetterTSCP 1.81AI Chess PerformanceARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual30K60K90K120K150KSE +/- 95.53, N = 5146265

SciMark

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: CompositeARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual60120180240300SE +/- 0.18, N = 4270.01

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Monte CarloARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual4080120160200SE +/- 0.12, N = 4160.86

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Fast Fourier TransformARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual816243240SE +/- 0.67, N = 436.35

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Sparse Matrix MultiplyARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual70140210280350SE +/- 0.73, N = 4339.64

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix FactorizationARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual100200300400500SE +/- 0.39, N = 4455.45

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-RelaxationARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual80160240320400SE +/- 0.42, N = 4357.75

Crafty

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterCrafty 23.4Elapsed TimeARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual0.01350.0270.04050.0540.0675SE +/- 0.00, N = 30.061. (CC) gcc options: -lstdc++ -lm

CLOMP

CLOMP is the C version of the Livermore OpenMP benchmark developed to measure OpenMP overheads and other performance impacts due to threading in order to influence future system designs. This particular test profile configuration is currently set to look at the OpenMP static schedule speed-up across all available CPU cores using the recommended test configuration. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSpeedup, More Is BetterCLOMP 3.3Static OMP SpeedupNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual0.3690.7381.1071.4761.845SE +/- 0.00, N = 5SE +/- 0.00, N = 5SE +/- 0.13, N = 100.740.741.641. (CC) gcc options: --openmp -O3 -lm

Stream

OpenBenchmarking.orgMB/s, More Is BetterStream 2009-04-11Type: CopyNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual13002600390052006500SE +/- 35.01, N = 20SE +/- 3.98, N = 10SE +/- 52.68, N = 101387.161523.826251.241. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -fopenmp

OpenBenchmarking.orgMB/s, More Is BetterStream 2009-04-11Type: ScaleNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual13002600390052006500SE +/- 44.70, N = 20SE +/- 4.74, N = 10SE +/- 45.43, N = 101339.671519.356114.151. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -fopenmp

OpenBenchmarking.orgMB/s, More Is BetterStream 2009-04-11Type: TriadNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual11002200330044005500SE +/- 4.48, N = 10SE +/- 0.51, N = 10SE +/- 32.03, N = 101268.611273.095189.581. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -fopenmp

OpenBenchmarking.orgMB/s, More Is BetterStream 2009-04-11Type: AddNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual12002400360048006000SE +/- 2.65, N = 10SE +/- 0.68, N = 10SE +/- 41.07, N = 101285.261286.185656.601. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -fopenmp

CacheBench

This is a performance test of CacheBench, which is part of LLCbench. CacheBench is designed to test the memory and cache bandwidth performance Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMB/s, More Is BetterCacheBenchTest: ReadNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual6001200180024003000SE +/- 22.43, N = 3SE +/- 12.37, N = 3SE +/- 8.68, N = 31933.821939.552572.441. (CC) gcc options: -lrt

OpenBenchmarking.orgMB/s, More Is BetterCacheBenchTest: WriteNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual8001600240032004000SE +/- 27.74, N = 3SE +/- 25.25, N = 3SE +/- 15.25, N = 32827.602848.203723.551. (CC) gcc options: -lrt

OpenBenchmarking.orgMB/s, More Is BetterCacheBenchTest: Read / Modify / WriteNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual15003000450060007500SE +/- 41.68, N = 3SE +/- 49.68, N = 3SE +/- 6.72, N = 32862.322878.207115.321. (CC) gcc options: -lrt

LAME MP3 Encoding

LAME is an MP3 encoder licensed under the LGPL. This test measures the time required to encode a WAV file to MP3 format. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterLAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3WAV To MP3ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz DualNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10306090120150SE +/- 0.08, N = 5SE +/- 0.13, N = 5SE +/- 0.21, N = 5142.2791.7291.47

Ogg Encoding

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterOgg Encoding 1.3.0WAV To OggARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual714212835SE +/- 0.11, N = 531.531. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -ffast-math -fsigned-char -mtune=cortex-a15 -marm -mfpu=neon -lm -logg

Timed HMMer Search

This test searches through the Pfam database of profile hidden markov models. The search finds the domain structure of Drosophila Sevenless protein. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed HMMer Search 2.3.2Pfam Database SearchNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual80160240320400SE +/- 5.46, N = 3SE +/- 4.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.36, N = 3367.38366.29115.111. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm

Timed MAFFT Alignment

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed MAFFT Alignment 6.864Multiple Sequence AlignmentNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual1326395265SE +/- 2.43, N = 6SE +/- 0.79, N = 3SE +/- 0.17, N = 359.4551.2037.351. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread

Dolfyn

Dolfyn is a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code of modern numerical simulation techniques. The Dolfyn test profile measures the execution time of the bundled computational fluid dynamics demos that are bundled with Dolfyn. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterDolfyn 0.527Computational Fluid DynamicsNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual100200300400500SE +/- 4.90, N = 3SE +/- 4.13, N = 3SE +/- 0.31, N = 3477.22462.43159.98

FFTE

FFTE is a package by Daisuke Takahashi to compute Discrete Fourier Transforms of 1-, 2- and 3- dimensional sequences of length (2^p)*(3^q)*(5^r). Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMFLOPS, More Is BetterFFTE 5.0Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT RoutineNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual30060090012001500SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.35, N = 3544.441484.87-lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lcr -lpthread1. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp

Primesieve

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterPrimesieve 4.01e12 Prime Number GenerationARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual2004006008001000SE +/- 13.74, N = 6832.951. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -fopenmp

7-Zip Compression

OpenBenchmarking.orgMIPS, More Is Better7-Zip Compression 9.20.1Compress Speed TestNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual400800120016002000SE +/- 11.46, N = 3SE +/- 12.66, N = 3SE +/- 6.01, N = 31499151316851. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -lpthread

Parallel BZIP2 Compression

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterParallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6256MB File CompressionNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual306090120150SE +/- 1.25, N = 3SE +/- 0.71, N = 3SE +/- 0.80, N = 3113.99109.3884.571. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -pthread -lbz2 -lpthread

VP8 libvpx Encoding

OpenBenchmarking.orgFrames Per Second, More Is BetterVP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0vpxencNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual0.32180.64360.96541.28721.609SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 30.400.401.431. (CC) gcc options: -lvpx -lm -lpthread

x264

OpenBenchmarking.orgFrames Per Second, More Is Betterx264 2012-10-03H.264 Video EncodingNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual3691215SE +/- 0.18, N = 6SE +/- 0.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.06, N = 38.188.3210.14

C-Ray

This is a test of C-Ray, a simple raytracer designed to test the floating-point CPU performance. This test is multi-threaded (16 threads per core), will shoot 8 rays per pixel for anti-aliasing, and will generate a 1600 x 1200 image. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterC-Ray 1.1Total TimeNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual120240360480600SE +/- 0.14, N = 3SE +/- 5.19, N = 3SE +/- 0.68, N = 3559.11539.61312.001. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3

POV-Ray

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterPOV-Ray 3.6.1Total TimeNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual100020003000400050004731470419371. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -O3 -lz -lm

FFmpeg

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterFFmpeg 1.0H.264 HD To NTSC DVNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual90180270360450SE +/- 2.65, N = 3SE +/- 2.26, N = 3SE +/- 0.95, N = 3424.07422.99159.16-lbz21. (CC) gcc options: -lavdevice -lavfilter -lavformat -lavcodec -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -ldl -lm -pthread -lrt

Smallpt

Smallpt is a C++ global illumination renderer written in less than 100 lines of code. Global illumination is done via unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing and there is multi-threading support via the OpenMP library. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterSmallpt 1.0Global Illumination Renderer; 100 SamplesNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual9001800270036004500SE +/- 16.71, N = 3SE +/- 7.00, N = 3SE +/- 4.04, N = 3427642641177-mtune=cortex-a15 -marm -mfpu=neon1. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp

NGINX Benchmark

OpenBenchmarking.orgRequests Per Second, More Is BetterNGINX Benchmark 1.0.11Static Web Page ServingNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual7001400210028003500SE +/- 39.92, N = 3SE +/- 13.99, N = 3SE +/- 109.38, N = 62131.782146.613273.57-lcrypto1. (CC) gcc options: -lpthread -lcrypt -lz

OpenSSL

OpenBenchmarking.orgSigns Per Second, More Is BetterOpenSSL 1.0.1cRSA 4096-bit PerformanceNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual3691215SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 35.905.909.901. (CC) gcc options: -march=armv7-a -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl

PHPBench

OpenBenchmarking.orgScore, More Is BetterPHPBench 0.8.1PHP Benchmark SuiteNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual5K10K15K20K25KSE +/- 36.10, N = 3SE +/- 19.92, N = 3SE +/- 158.19, N = 3132241348622050

PyBench

OpenBenchmarking.orgMilliseconds, Fewer Is BetterPyBench 2008-08-14Total For Average Test TimesNVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual3K6K9K12K15KSE +/- 4.06, N = 3SE +/- 6.24, N = 3SE +/- 11.05, N = 313964133468421