Raspberry Pi 2 vs. Raspberry Pi 3 Thermal ARMv7 rev 4 testing on Gentoo 2.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Raspberry Pi 3: Processor: ARMv7 rev 4 @ 1.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: BCM2709 Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, Memory: 925MB, Disk: 16GB SD16G, Graphics: LLVMpipe OS: Raspbian 8.0, Kernel: 4.1.18-v7+ (armv7l), Desktop: LXDE 0.7.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 11.1.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1824x984 Raspberry Pi 2: Processor: ARMv7 rev 5 @ 0.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: BCM2709 Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1, Memory: 925MB, Disk: 16GB SD16G, Graphics: LLVMpipe OS: Raspbian 8.0, Kernel: 4.1.18-v7+ (armv7l), Desktop: LXDE 0.7.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 11.1.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1824x984 RPi2-Gentoo: Processor: ARMv7 rev 5 @ 0.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: BCM2709 Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1, Memory: 925MB, Disk: 32GB SL32G OS: Gentoo 2.2, Kernel: 4.1.19-v7+ (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.9.3 + Clang 3.7.0 + LLVM 3.7.0, File-System: f2fs, Screen Resolution: 656x416 RPi3-Gentoo: Processor: ARMv7 rev 4 @ 1.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: BCM2709 Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, Memory: 925MB, Disk: 32GB SL32G OS: Gentoo 2.2, Kernel: 4.1.19-v7+ (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 4.9.3 + Clang 3.7.0 + LLVM 3.7.0, File-System: f2fs, Screen Resolution: 656x416 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 249.06 |======================== Raspberry Pi 2 . 504.65 |================================================= RPi2-Gentoo .... 556.49 |====================================================== RPi3-Gentoo .... 261.71 |========================= C-Ray 1.1 System Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . MIN: 46 AVG: 77 MAX: 81 Raspberry Pi 2 . MIN: 41 AVG: 56 MAX: 58 RPi2-Gentoo .... MIN: 36 AVG: 50 MAX: 54 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 49 AVG: 70 MAX: 75 FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 253.61 |=============================== Raspberry Pi 2 . 405.56 |================================================= RPi2-Gentoo .... 448.88 |====================================================== RPi3-Gentoo .... 252.38 |============================== FFmpeg 2.8.1 System Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . MIN: 58.9 AVG: 62.4 MAX: 68.1 Raspberry Pi 2 . MIN: 48.7 AVG: 50.9 MAX: 53.0 RPi2-Gentoo .... MIN: 46.5 AVG: 47.7 MAX: 49.2 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 58.5 AVG: 60.9 MAX: 66.6 OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 21.53 |================================================= Raspberry Pi 2 . 12.00 |=========================== RPi2-Gentoo .... 10.50 |======================== RPi3-Gentoo .... 24.20 |======================================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1g System Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . MIN: 57 AVG: 77 MAX: 83 Raspberry Pi 2 . MIN: 47 AVG: 57 MAX: 60 RPi2-Gentoo .... MIN: 47 AVG: 51 MAX: 54 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 56 AVG: 70 MAX: 75 R Benchmark Phoronix Test Suite v6.2.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 10.11 |============================= Raspberry Pi 2 . 19.32 |======================================================= R Benchmark System Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . MIN: 54.1 AVG: 59.1 MAX: 66.4 Raspberry Pi 2 . MIN: 46.5 AVG: 47.7 MAX: 50.3 Go Benchmarks Test: http Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 310691 |=========================== Raspberry Pi 2 . 619787 |====================================================== Go Benchmarks System Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . MIN: 48.2 AVG: 54.6 MAX: 55.7 Raspberry Pi 2 . MIN: 43.9 AVG: 46.9 MAX: 47.6 Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 1111010100 |============================= Raspberry Pi 2 . 1929341602 |================================================== Go Benchmarks System Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . MIN: 47.6 AVG: 52.8 MAX: 53.5 Raspberry Pi 2 . MIN: 44.4 AVG: 46.6 MAX: 47.6 Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 119836182 |============================= Raspberry Pi 2 . 207400639 |=================================================== Go Benchmarks System Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . MIN: 47.6 AVG: 52.9 MAX: 54.1 Raspberry Pi 2 . MIN: 44.4 AVG: 46.8 MAX: 47.6 Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 72.26 |======================================================= Raspberry Pi 2 . 59.11 |============================================= RPi2-Gentoo .... 48.51 |===================================== RPi3-Gentoo .... 61.29 |=============================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 System Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . MIN: 48.7 AVG: 53.3 MAX: 55.1 Raspberry Pi 2 . MIN: 44.9 AVG: 47.2 MAX: 48.2 RPi2-Gentoo .... MIN: 44.4 AVG: 45.3 MAX: 46.0 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 53.7 AVG: 54.9 MAX: 55.8 Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 52.79 |================================== Raspberry Pi 2 . 75.14 |================================================ RPi2-Gentoo .... 85.30 |======================================================= RPi3-Gentoo .... 51.16 |================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 System Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . MIN: 54 AVG: 75 MAX: 82 Raspberry Pi 2 . MIN: 48 AVG: 56 MAX: 60 RPi2-Gentoo .... MIN: 46 AVG: 52 MAX: 55 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 56 AVG: 69 MAX: 75 System Temperature Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Celsius Raspberry Pi 3 . MIN: 39 AVG: 61 MAX: 83 Raspberry Pi 2 . MIN: 39 AVG: 49 MAX: 60 RPi2-Gentoo .... MIN: 34 AVG: 49 MAX: 55 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 46 AVG: 65 MAX: 75