AMD AM1 APUs vs. NVIDIA Tegra K1 Jetson TK1 Comparing the various AMD AM1 APUs on Ubuntu Linux against the NVIDIA Jetson TK1 ARM development board with the Tegra K1 SoC. All benchmarks under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com AMD Athlon 5350: Processor: AMD Athlon 5350 APU with Radeon R3 @ 2.05GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS AM1I-A, Chipset: AMD Family 16h Root Complex, Memory: 3584MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 8400 512MB, Audio: AMD Device 9840, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.14.0-031400-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.2.0-devel (git-4d64180 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD Athlon 5150: Processor: AMD Athlon 5150 APU with Radeon R3 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS AM1I-A, Chipset: AMD Family 16h Root Complex, Memory: 3584MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 8400 512MB, Audio: AMD Device 9840, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.14.0-031400-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.2.0-devel (git-4d64180 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD Sempron 3850: Processor: AMD Sempron 3850 APU with Radeon R3 @ 1.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS AM1I-A, Chipset: AMD Family 16h Root Complex, Memory: 3584MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 8280 512MB, Audio: AMD Device 9840, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.14.0-031400-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.2.0-devel (git-4d64180 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD Sempron 2650: Processor: AMD Sempron 2650 APU with Radeon R3 @ 1.45GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS AM1I-A, Chipset: AMD Family 16h Root Complex, Memory: 3584MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 8240 512MB, Audio: AMD Device 9840, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.14.0-031400-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.2.0-devel (git-4d64180 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 NVIDIA Jetson TK1: Processor: ARMv7 rev 3 @ 2.32GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: laguna, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 16GB SEM16G, Graphics: GK20A/AXI, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.10.24-g6a2d13a (armv7l), Desktop: Unity 7.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 19.2, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 19.34 |===================== AMD Athlon 5150 ... 23.96 |========================== AMD Sempron 3850 .. 29.62 |================================ AMD Sempron 2650 .. 48.35 |==================================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 16.10 |================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 72.15 |================== AMD Athlon 5150 ... 92.49 |======================= AMD Sempron 3850 .. 114.00 |============================ AMD Sempron 2650 .. 204.16 |=================================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 113.90 |============================ x264 2014-01-09 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 39.73 |==================================================== AMD Athlon 5150 ... 31.74 |========================================== AMD Sempron 3850 .. 26.08 |================================== AMD Sempron 2650 .. 14.72 |=================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 32.35 |========================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 262.52 |===================== AMD Athlon 5150 ... 310.91 |========================= AMD Sempron 3850 .. 363.74 |============================= AMD Sempron 2650 .. 641.12 |=================================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 397.58 |================================ Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 129.09 |======================= AMD Athlon 5150 ... 158.81 |============================ AMD Sempron 3850 .. 190.03 |================================== AMD Sempron 2650 .. 285.40 |=================================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 138.16 |========================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 201.92 |============================================ AMD Athlon 5150 ... 157.49 |=================================== AMD Sempron 3850 .. 129.17 |============================ AMD Sempron 2650 .. 142.77 |=============================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 231.92 |=================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 17.35 |================================= AMD Athlon 5150 ... 22.25 |========================================== AMD Sempron 3850 .. 27.39 |==================================================== AMD Sempron 2650 .. 24.58 |=============================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 15.90 |============================== Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 Test: FLOAT QUIPs > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 134231671.35 |============================================= AMD Athlon 5150 ... 104598539.86 |=================================== AMD Sempron 3850 .. 84905699.45 |============================ AMD Sempron 2650 .. 94704054.94 |================================ NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 105341680.13 |=================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 37.61 |================================= AMD Athlon 5150 ... 48.34 |========================================== AMD Sempron 3850 .. 59.33 |==================================================== AMD Sempron 2650 .. 53.33 |=============================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 37.98 |================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 589.00 |=================================================== AMD Athlon 5150 ... 500.98 |=========================================== AMD Sempron 3850 .. 427.25 |===================================== AMD Sempron 2650 .. 424.90 |===================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 376.25 |================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 566.67 |=================================================== AMD Athlon 5150 ... 444.95 |======================================== AMD Sempron 3850 .. 362.72 |================================= AMD Sempron 2650 .. 398.96 |==================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 480.89 |=========================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 79.99 |================================== AMD Athlon 5150 ... 99.74 |========================================== AMD Sempron 3850 .. 120.43 |=================================================== AMD Sempron 2650 .. 116.74 |================================================= NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 108.51 |============================================== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 142.51 |================================== AMD Athlon 5150 ... 175.86 |========================================== AMD Sempron 3850 .. 214.22 |=================================================== AMD Sempron 2650 .. 214.51 |=================================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 172.50 |========================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon 5350 ... 399.01 |=================================================== AMD Athlon 5150 ... 329.68 |========================================== AMD Sempron 3850 .. 277.27 |=================================== AMD Sempron 2650 .. 287.63 |===================================== NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . 351.19 |=============================================