Samsung ARM Cortex A15 Dual vs. NVIDIA Tegra 3 Exynos ARMv7 rev 4 testing on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com. ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual: Processor: Exynos ARMv7 rev 4 @ 1.70GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: SAMSUNG EXYNOS5 (Flattened Device Tree), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 16GB SEM16G OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.4.0 (armv7l), Desktop: Unity 2D 5.16.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04: Processor: ARMv7 rev 9 @ 1.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: cardhu, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 16GB SEM16G + 32GB SD32G, Graphics: NVIDIA TEGRA, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.1.10-gfc993d9 (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1366x1536 NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10: Processor: ARMv7 rev 9 @ 1.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: cardhu, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 16GB SEM16G + 32GB SD32G, Graphics: NVIDIA TEGRA, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.1.10-gfc993d9 (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1366x1536 IBM_T60: Processor: Intel T2500 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 20075TG, Chipset: Intel Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS + ICH7-M, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 80GB FUJITSU MHV2080B, Graphics: AMD ATI Radeon Mobility X1400, Audio: Analog Devices AD1981, Network: Intel 82573L Gigabit + Intel PRO/Wireless OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-19-generic (i686), Desktop: Unity 6.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1400x1050 Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 6251.24 |====================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 1523.82 |========= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 1387.16 |======== IBM_T60 ....................... 2147.52 |============= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 6114.15 |====================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 1519.35 |========= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 1339.67 |======== IBM_T60 ....................... 2146.53 |============= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 5189.58 |====================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 1273.09 |========= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 1268.61 |========= IBM_T60 ....................... 2531.22 |=================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 5656.60 |====================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 1286.18 |========= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 1285.26 |========= IBM_T60 ....................... 2525.82 |================= CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 1.64 |========================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 0.74 |=================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 0.74 |=================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 159.98 |============= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 477.22 |======================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 462.43 |====================================== IBM_T60 ....................... 114.97 |========= FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 1484.87 |=================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 544.44 |============= IBM_T60 ....................... 1622.73 |====================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 115.11 |============ NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 366.29 |======================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 367.38 |======================================= IBM_T60 ....................... 82.19 |========= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 37.35 |========================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 59.45 |======================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 51.20 |================================== IBM_T60 ....................... 38.01 |========================== CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 2572.44 |====================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 1933.82 |============================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 1939.55 |============================= IBM_T60 ....................... 1883.24 |============================ CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 3723.55 |============================ NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 2827.60 |====================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 2848.20 |====================== IBM_T60 ....................... 4993.29 |====================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 7115.32 |============================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 2878.20 |============ NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 2862.32 |============ IBM_T60 ....................... 8933.53 |====================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 270.01 |===================================== IBM_T60 .................... 310.24 |========================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 160.86 |========================================== IBM_T60 .................... 116.84 |=============================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 36.35 |=============================== IBM_T60 .................... 49.69 |=========================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 339.64 |==================================== IBM_T60 .................... 401.57 |========================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 455.45 |========================================== IBM_T60 .................... 372.96 |================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 357.75 |========================= IBM_T60 .................... 611.34 |========================================== TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 146265 |========================================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 1.43 |============= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 0.40 |==== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 0.40 |==== IBM_T60 ....................... 4.64 |========================================= x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 10.14 |============================ NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 8.32 |======================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 8.18 |====================== IBM_T60 ....................... 14.61 |======================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 1685 |============================ NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 1499 |========================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 1513 |========================= IBM_T60 ....................... 2472 |========================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 312.00 |====================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 559.11 |======================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 539.61 |====================================== IBM_T60 ....................... 308.24 |====================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 84.57 |============================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 113.99 |======================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 109.38 |===================================== IBM_T60 ....................... 69.71 |======================== Primesieve 4.0 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 832.95 |========================================== IBM_T60 .................... 649.54 |================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 1177 |=========== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 4276 |========================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 4264 |========================================= IBM_T60 ....................... 770 |======= Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 0.06 |============================================ IBM_T60 .................... 0.02 |=============== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 142.27 |======================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 91.72 |========================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 91.47 |========================= IBM_T60 ....................... 41.24 |=========== Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual . 31.53 |=========================================== FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 159.16 |=============== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 422.99 |======================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 424.07 |======================================= IBM_T60 ....................... 52.69 |===== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 1937 |================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 4731 |========================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 4704 |========================================= IBM_T60 ....................... 1582 |============== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 9.90 |========================================= NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 5.90 |======================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 5.90 |======================== IBM_T60 ....................... 8.60 |==================================== PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 8421 |======================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 13964 |======================================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 13346 |====================================== IBM_T60 ....................... 6402 |================== NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 3273.57 |============ NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 2146.61 |======== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 2131.78 |======== IBM_T60 ....................... 9986.64 |====================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better ARM Cortex A15 1.7GHz Dual .... 22050 |========================== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.04 . 13224 |=============== NVIDIA Tegra 3 - Ubuntu 12.10 . 13486 |================ IBM_T60 ....................... 34447 |========================================