Amazon EC2 a1.large ARMv8 Cortex-A72 testing on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. ARMv8 a1.large: Processor: ARMv8 Cortex-A72 (2 Cores), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 a1.large (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Amazon Device 0200, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1028-aws (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4 ARMv8 a1.xlarge: Processor: ARMv8 Cortex-A72 (4 Cores), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 a1.xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Amazon Device 0200, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1028-aws (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4 a1.2xlarge: Processor: ARMv8 Cortex-A72 (8 Cores), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 a1.2xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Amazon Device 0200, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1028-aws (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4 PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 168855 |===================================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 168467 |===================================================== a1.2xlarge ...... 167465 |===================================================== PHP Micro Benchmarks Test: Zend bench Seconds < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 1.81 |======================================================= ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 1.81 |======================================================= a1.2xlarge ...... 1.82 |======================================================= PHP Micro Benchmarks Test: Zend micro_bench Seconds < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 8.94 |====================================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 8.88 |====================================================== a1.2xlarge ...... 9.04 |======================================================= PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 4266 |======================================================= ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 4244 |====================================================== a1.2xlarge ...... 4289 |======================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 83.11 |====================================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 83.12 |====================================================== a1.2xlarge ...... 83.26 |====================================================== x264 2018-09-25 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 5.38 |================= ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 8.76 |============================ a1.2xlarge ...... 16.62 |====================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.29 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 5542 |========================================= ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 7484 |======================================================= a1.2xlarge ...... 7111 |==================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.29 Performance / Cost - Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 554229.00 |===================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 748416.00 |================================================== a1.2xlarge ...... 237034.00 |================ Zstd Compression 1.3.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 171.00 |===================================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 108.00 |================================= a1.2xlarge ...... 62.04 |=================== Zstd Compression 1.3.4 Performance / Cost - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 1.71 |======================================================= ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 1.08 |=================================== a1.2xlarge ...... 0.62 |==================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Pod2html Seconds < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 0.42504815 |================================================ ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 0.43503233 |================================================= a1.2xlarge ...... 0.43043023 |================================================ Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter Seconds < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 0.00243051 |================================================= ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 0.00243618 |================================================= a1.2xlarge ...... 0.00238317 |================================================ Go Benchmarks Test: build Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 39591611983 |=============================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 39673825966 |================================================ a1.2xlarge ...... 40031137671 |================================================ Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 78842192 |=================================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 39753346 |========================== a1.2xlarge ...... 20320318 |============= Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 16850985 |=================================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 8715063 |========================== a1.2xlarge ...... 4727623 |============== Rust Prime Benchmark Prime Number Test To 200,000,000 Seconds < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 128.30 |===================================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 64.22 |=========================== a1.2xlarge ...... 32.08 |============= Rust Prime Benchmark Performance / Cost - Prime Number Test To 200,000,000 Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 1.28 |======================================================= ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 0.64 |============================ a1.2xlarge ...... 0.32 |============== Rust Mandelbrot Time To Complete Serial/Parallel Mandelbrot Seconds < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 243 |======================================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 152 |=================================== a1.2xlarge ...... 106 |======================== Rust Mandelbrot Performance / Cost - Time To Complete Serial/Parallel Mandelbrot Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 2.43 |======================================================= ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 1.52 |================================== a1.2xlarge ...... 2.13 |================================================ 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 3868 |=============== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 6866 |=========================== a1.2xlarge ...... 13589 |====================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 181.00 |===================================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 111.00 |================================= a1.2xlarge ...... 61.89 |================== Rodinia 2.4 Performance / Cost - Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 1.81 |======================================================= ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 1.11 |================================== a1.2xlarge ...... 0.62 |=================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 1074 |======================================================= ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 541 |============================ a1.2xlarge ...... 272 |============== Rodinia 2.4 Performance / Cost - Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 53.72 |====================================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 27.06 |=========================== a1.2xlarge ...... 13.60 |============== m-queens 1.2 Time To Solve Seconds < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 882 |======================================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 441 |============================ a1.2xlarge ...... 221 |============== m-queens 1.2 Performance / Cost - Time To Solve Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 35.29 |====================================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 17.65 |=========================== a1.2xlarge ...... 8.83 |============== Cost To Run Tests Cost / Price Per Hour Cost / Price Per Hour < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.large .. 0.25 |===================================================== ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 0.19 |======================================== a1.2xlarge ...... 0.26 |======================================================= PHPBench 0.8.1 Performance / Cost - PHP Benchmark Suite Score Per Dollar > Higher Is Better ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 16846700.00 |================================================ a1.2xlarge ...... 16746500.00 |================================================ PyBench 2018-02-16 Performance / Cost - Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 42.44 |=========================== a1.2xlarge ...... 85.78 |====================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 Performance / Cost - WAV To MP3 Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 0.83 |======================================================= a1.2xlarge ...... 0.83 |======================================================= x264 2018-09-25 Performance / Cost - H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better ARMv8 a1.xlarge . 876.00 |=========================== a1.2xlarge ...... 1662.00 |==================================================== Perl Benchmarks Performance / Cost - Test: Pod2html Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better a1.2xlarge . 0.01 |============================================================ Go Benchmarks Performance / Cost - Test: build Nanoseconds/Operation x Dollar < Lower Is Better a1.2xlarge . 400311376.71 |==================================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Performance / Cost - Compress Speed Test MIPS Per Dollar > Higher Is Better a1.2xlarge . 1358900.00 |======================================================