ARM SBCs vs. x86 Reference Intel Core i3-8100 testing on Ubuntu 17.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Raspberry Pi 2 Model b: Processor: ARMv7 rev 5 @ 0.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: BCM2835 Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1, Memory: 926MB, Disk: 32GB GB2MW, Graphics: VC4 V3D 2.1 1024MB, Monitor: VE228 OS: Raspbian 9.4, Kernel: 4.9.80-v7+ (armv7l), Desktop: LXDE 0.9.3, Display Server: X Server 1.19.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 ASUS TinkerBoard: Processor: ARMv7 rev 1 @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Rockchip (Device Tree), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 8GB SD, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Monitor: VE228 OS: Debian 9.4, Kernel: 4.4.16-00006-g4431f98-dirty (armv7l), Desktop: LXDE 0.9.3, Display Server: X Server 1.19.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.2, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9 128 bits), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Core i3 8100: Processor: Intel Core i3-8100 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z370M-ITX/ac (P1.20 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device 3e1f, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB DREVO X1 SSD, Graphics: (1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Device 24fb OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.15.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20171231, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Compiler: GCC 8.0.1 20180319, File-System: ext4 Netperf 2.7.0 Server: 192.168.1.55 - Test: TCP Send File - Duration: 10 Seconds Megabits/sec Throughput > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 93.54 |===== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 938.85 |============================================== Core i3 8100 ........... 941.39 |============================================== Netperf 2.7.0 Server: 192.168.1.55 - Test: TCP Request Response - Duration: 10 Seconds Transaction Rate Per Second > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 660.06 |============================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 226.13 |================ Core i3 8100 ........... 127.98 |========= Netperf 2.7.0 Server: 192.168.1.55 - Test: UDP Request Response - Duration: 10 Seconds Transaction Rate Per Second > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 722.51 |============================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 345.95 |====================== Core i3 8100 ........... 121.67 |======== Netperf 2.7.0 Server: 192.168.1.55 - Test: TCP Stream - Client To Server - Duration: 10 Seconds Megabits/sec Throughput > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 94.05 |===== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 783.73 |============================================== Core i3 8100 ........... 787.50 |============================================== Netperf 2.7.0 Server: 192.168.1.55 - Test: TCP Stream - Server To Client - Duration: 10 Seconds Megabits/sec Throughput > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 93.58 |===== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 939.90 |============================================== Core i3 8100 ........... 941.30 |============================================== Netperf 2.7.0 Server: 192.168.1.55 - Test: UDP Stream - Server To Client - 10G - Duration: 10 Seconds Megabits/sec Throughput > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 96.02 |===== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 634.19 |============================== Core i3 8100 ........... 961.58 |============================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 7.392 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 89.38 |=============================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 26.53 |============== Core i3 8100 ........... 4.85 |=== CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 1657.43 |======================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 2734.61 |======================================== Core i3 8100 ........... 3047.61 |============================================= CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 2238.20 |==== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 8813.66 |=============== Core i3 8100 ........... 25255.88 |============================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 25.66 |== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 139.66 |=========== Core i3 8100 ........... 562.39 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 13.99 |===== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 40.93 |=============== Core i3 8100 ........... 121.61 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 9.26 |== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 21.26 |===== Core i3 8100 ........... 201.86 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 19.55 |= ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 112.89 |======== Core i3 8100 ........... 653.78 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 31.47 |== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 168.10 |========== Core i3 8100 ........... 813.80 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 54.04 |== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 355.13 |================ Core i3 8100 ........... 1020.90 |============================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.28 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 19 |===== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 55 |============== Core i3 8100 ........... 187 |================================================= ebizzy 0.3 Records/s > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 4500 |= ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 19200 |==== Core i3 8100 ........... 211417 |============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 490.45 |============================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 155.40 |=============== Core i3 8100 ........... 21.61 |== Stockfish 2014-11-26 Total Time ms < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 68581 |=============================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 19893 |============== Core i3 8100 ........... 3387 |== AOBench Size: 2048 x 2048 - Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 668.60 |============================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 192.12 |============= Core i3 8100 ........... 44.87 |=== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 513.43 |============================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 145.61 |============= Core i3 8100 ........... 33.59 |=== Perl Benchmarks Test: Pod2html Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 2.45780646 |========================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 0.71310443 |============ Core i3 8100 ........... 0.13202331 |== Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 0.01265626 |========================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 0.00410594 |============== Core i3 8100 ........... 0.00095108 |=== OpenSSL 1.1.0f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 25.77 |= ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 85.42 |==== Core i3 8100 ........... 1056.93 |============================================= GIMP 2.8.18 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 42.23 |=============================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 18.59 |===================== GIMP 2.8.18 Test: auto-levels Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 73.42 |=============================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 29.22 |=================== GIMP 2.8.18 Test: unsharp-mask Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 179.69 |============================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 73.75 |=================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 112559.06 |= ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 315325.94 |==== Core i3 8100 ........... 3264425.58 |========================================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 66149.30 |= ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 216013.27 |==== Core i3 8100 ........... 2158315.83 |========================================== PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 38200 |=============================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 9273 |=========== Core i3 8100 ........... 1445 |== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 20952 |== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 65900 |====== Core i3 8100 ........... 537078 |============================================== Git Time To Complete Common Git Commands Seconds < Lower Is Better Raspberry Pi 2 Model b . 106.88 |============================================== ASUS TinkerBoard ....... 29.57 |============= Core i3 8100 ........... 5.73 |== GIMP 2.8.20 Test: auto-levels Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 8100 . 5.41 |========================================================== GIMP 2.8.20 Test: unsharp-mask Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i3 8100 . 10.44 |=========================================================