Raspberry Pi 2 vs. Raspberry Pi 3 Thermal ARMv7 rev 5 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 RPi3-Gentoo: Processor: ARMv7 rev 4 @ 0.80GHz (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 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 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 249.06 |======================== Raspberry Pi 2 . 504.65 |================================================= RPi3-Gentoo .... 391.13 |====================================== RPi2-Gentoo .... 556.81 |====================================================== 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 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 47 AVG: 62 MAX: 65 RPi2-Gentoo .... MIN: 33 AVG: 49 MAX: 52 FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 253.61 |============================== Raspberry Pi 2 . 405.56 |================================================ RPi3-Gentoo .... 377.18 |============================================= RPi2-Gentoo .... 453.18 |====================================================== 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 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 46.7 AVG: 53.8 MAX: 55.8 RPi2-Gentoo .... MIN: 44.9 AVG: 46.4 MAX: 48.7 OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 21.53 |======================================================= Raspberry Pi 2 . 12.00 |=============================== RPi3-Gentoo .... 16.00 |========================================= RPi2-Gentoo .... 10.50 |=========================== 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 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 52 AVG: 59 MAX: 63 RPi2-Gentoo .... MIN: 44 AVG: 50 MAX: 52 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 |====================================================== RPi3-Gentoo .... 159456 |============== 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 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 48.9 AVG: 58.5 MAX: 62.3 Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 1111010100 |============================= Raspberry Pi 2 . 1929341602 |================================================== RPi3-Gentoo .... 330887462 |========= 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 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 52.1 AVG: 61.7 MAX: 64.5 Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 119836182 |============================= Raspberry Pi 2 . 207400639 |=================================================== RPi3-Gentoo .... 66873870 |================ 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 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 56.4 AVG: 62.8 MAX: 65.5 RPi2-Gentoo .... MIN: 40.6 AVG: 40.6 MAX: 40.6 Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 72.26 |======================================================= Raspberry Pi 2 . 59.11 |============================================= RPi3-Gentoo .... 42.32 |================================ RPi2-Gentoo .... 48.76 |===================================== 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 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 49.4 AVG: 50.9 MAX: 51.5 RPi2-Gentoo .... MIN: 42.2 AVG: 43.6 MAX: 44.4 Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 3 . 52.79 |==================================== Raspberry Pi 2 . 75.14 |==================================================== RPi3-Gentoo .... 74.03 |=================================================== RPi2-Gentoo .... 80.11 |======================================================= 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 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 49 AVG: 62 MAX: 66 RPi2-Gentoo .... MIN: 42 AVG: 51 MAX: 54 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 RPi3-Gentoo .... MIN: 43 AVG: 58 MAX: 66 RPi2-Gentoo .... MIN: 30 AVG: 48 MAX: 54