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. ,,"PandaBoard ES","Intel Atom D525","1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node","1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node","ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu","1.6GHz Hardkernel Odroid-xu - ubuntu 13.07" Processor,,ARMv7 rev 10 @ 1.20GHz (2 Cores),Intel Atom D525 @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores),ARMv7 rev 0 (4 Cores),ARMv7 rev 0 (4 Cores),ARMv7 rev 4 @ 1.70GHz (2 Cores),ARMv7 rev 3 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,OMAP4 Panda board,FOXCONN NETBOX nT-435/535,Highbank,Highbank,SAMSUNG EXYNOS5 (Flattened Device Tree),ODROIDXU Memory,,1024MB,2048MB,4096MB,4096MB,2048MB,2048MB Disk,,16GB SD16G,500GB Western Digital WD5000BEVT-2,256GB SAMSUNG MZ7PC256,256GB SAMSUNG MZ7PC256,16GB SEM16G + 64GB,31GB 032G96 Graphics,,Texas Instruments OMAP,Intel Atom D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx IGP,,,, Chipset,,,Intel Atom D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx,,,, Audio,,,Realtek ALC888,,,, Network,,,Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Realtek RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN,,,, OS,,Ubuntu 12.10,Ubuntu 12.10,Ubuntu 12.10,Ubuntu 12.10,Ubuntu 13.04,Linaro 13.07 Kernel,,3.5.0-208-omap4 (armv7l),3.5.0-14-generic (x86_64),3.5.0-1000-highbank (armv7l),3.5.0-1000-highbank (armv7l),3.4.0 (armv7l),3.4.5 (armv7l) Display Server,,X Server 1.12.99.904 (1.13.0 RC 4),X Server 1.13.0,,,X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver,,fbdev 0.4.3,intel 2.20.6,,,, OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 8.0.4,1.4 Mesa 8.1-devel,,,2.1 Mesa 9.0, Compiler,,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.7 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1366x768,,,1366x768,1920x1080 Desktop,,,Unity 6.4.0,,,LXDE 0.5.11, ,,"PandaBoard ES","Intel Atom D525","1.4GHz Calxeda Highbank Node","1.1GHz Calxeda Highbank Node","ARM Chromebook - Ubuntu 13.04 - lubuntu","1.6GHz Hardkernel Odroid-xu - ubuntu 13.07" "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,269.00,780.69,875.04,663.59,1046.43,1081.83 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,265.31,710.18,637.66,472.82,756.09,965.70 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,216.80,506.33,542.46,421.51,652.36,818.12 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,2.04,4.81,4.53,3.57,4.01,4.10 "FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,548.78,942.93,643.43,501.69,1465.68,1330.10 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,886,2089,2176,1706,1698,2760 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,4.70,11.35,11.82,9.07,10.84,18.02 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,2419,1007,1033,1326,1291,738 "LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator - Test: Rhodopsin Protein (Loop Time)",LIB,,459.73,365.85,464.02,192.31,187.07 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,,371.20,303.69,390.45,332.54,172.91 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,,3073.42,5271.67,4014.66,1823.63,1762.49