Raspberry Pi - armv5tel vs armv6hl Benchmarks

Here are some preliminary armv5tel vs armv6hl benchmarks performed by Jordan Cwang 2012-12-12 to 2012-12-19. Tests were performed on the released F17 remix build and the F18 test build. The kernel was the same, compiled for armv5.

GTKperf

armv5tel GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Tue Dec 18 17:07:28 2012 GtkEntry - time: 0.92 GtkComboBox - time: 24.14 GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 15.32 GtkSpinButton - time: 3.96 GtkProgressBar - time: 3.67 GtkToggleButton - time: 4.65 GtkCheckButton - time: 3.02 GtkRadioButton - time: 4.23 GtkTextView - Add text - time: 10.61 GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 6.64 GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 27.90 GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 35.73 GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 17.22 GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 1.52 --- Total time: 159.62

armv6hl GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Tue Dec 18 17:08:38 2012 GtkEntry - time: 0.74 GtkComboBox - time: 11.29 GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 6.57 GtkSpinButton - time: 1.11 GtkProgressBar - time: 0.72 GtkToggleButton - time: 1.44 GtkCheckButton - time: 1.23 GtkRadioButton - time: 2.10 GtkTextView - Add text - time: 9.34 GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 4.72 GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 21.16 GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 27.95 GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 14.98 GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 1.56 --- Total time: 104.97

armv6hl is 34% faster than armv5tel

sysbench cpu

armv5tel sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Running the test with following options: Number of threads: 1 Doing CPU performance benchmark Threads started! Done. Maximum prime number checked in CPU test: 10000 Test execution summary: total time: 865.4808s total number of events: 10000 total time taken by event execution: 865.4254 per-request statistics: min: 84.33ms avg: 86.54ms max: 431.30ms approx. 95 percentile: 90.00ms Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 10000.0000/0.00 execution time (avg/stddev): 865.4254/0.00

armv6hl sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Running the test with following options: Number of threads: 1 Doing CPU performance benchmark Threads started! Done. Maximum prime number checked in CPU test: 10000 Test execution summary: total time: 516.5632s total number of events: 10000 total time taken by event execution: 516.5205 per-request statistics: min: 51.06ms avg: 51.65ms max: 114.26ms approx. 95 percentile: 54.66ms Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 10000.0000/0.00 execution time (avg/stddev): 516.5205/0.00

armv5tel is 40% faster than armv6hl