Raspberry Pi 3 Linux Benchmark Comparison
Raspberry Pi 3 Benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel.


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: 8GB SD

	OS: Raspbian 8.0, Kernel: 4.1.13-v7+ (armv7l), Desktop: LXDE 0.7.2, Display Server: X Server 1.16.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1824x984

SiFive U540: 

	Processor: sifive rocket0 (4 Cores), Motherboard: sifive hifive-unleashed-a00, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 8GB SS08G

	OS: Debian unstable, Kernel: 4.15.0-00044-g2b0aa1d (riscv64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: tmpfs


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Raspberry Pi 3 . 629.00 |======================================================
Raspberry Pi 2 . 387.00 |=================================
SiFive U540 .... 351.00 |==============================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Performance / Cost - Test: Blowfish
Real C/S Per Dollar > Higher Is Better
Raspberry Pi 3 . 17.97 |=======================================================
Raspberry Pi 2 . 10.46 |================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Raspberry Pi 3 . 247.37 |==========================
Raspberry Pi 2 . 505.44 |======================================================
SiFive U540 .... 319.38 |==================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Raspberry Pi 3 . 1388 |====================================
Raspberry Pi 2 . 2175 |========================================================
SiFive U540 .... 1054 |===========================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Raspberry Pi 3 . 53.62 |=======================================
Raspberry Pi 2 . 75.46 |=======================================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Raspberry Pi 3 . 62.54 |===================================================
Raspberry Pi 2 . 33.29 |===========================
SiFive U540 .... 66.83 |=======================================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Performance / Cost - Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS Per Dollar > Higher Is Better
Raspberry Pi 3 . 1.79 |========================================================
Raspberry Pi 2 . 0.90 |============================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Raspberry Pi 3 . 20.25 |=======================================================
Raspberry Pi 2 . 11.93 |================================
SiFive U540 .... 11.40 |===============================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
Performance / Cost - RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better
Raspberry Pi 3 . 0.58 |========================================================
Raspberry Pi 2 . 0.32 |===============================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Raspberry Pi 3 . 228.37 |=======================================
Raspberry Pi 2 . 314.58 |======================================================


Meta Performance Per Dollar
Performance Per Dollar
Performance Per Dollar > Higher Is Better
Raspberry Pi 3 . 6.78 |========================================================
Raspberry Pi 2 . 3.58 |==============================