Raspberry Pi - armv5tel vs armv6hl Benchmarks

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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 (armv5tel) and the F18 test build (armv6hl). The kernel was the same, compiled for armv5. More benchmarks to follow...

Summary

Test Units Better is... armv5tel armv6hl armv6hl improvement over armv5tel
GTKperf S lower 159.62

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 about 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

armv6hl is about 40% faster than armv5tel

ApacheBench

armv5tel
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 10.0.0.6 (be patient)


Server Software:        Apache/2.2.22
Server Hostname:        10.0.0.6
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        4609 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   139.787 seconds
Complete requests:      20000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Non-2xx responses:      20000
Total transferred:      96140000 bytes
HTML transferred:       92180000 bytes
Requests per second:    143.07 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       69.894 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       6.989 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          671.64 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    1   0.8      1      30
Processing:     5   69 132.6     17    2225
Waiting:        4   30  82.0      4    2102
Total:          5   70 132.6     18    2227

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     18
  66%     86
  75%    112
  80%    127
  90%    166
  95%    204
  98%    257
  99%    319
 100%   2227 (longest request)
armv6hl
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 10.0.0.2 (be patient)


Server Software:        Apache/2.2.22
Server Hostname:        10.0.0.2
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        4609 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   174.240 seconds
Complete requests:      20000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Non-2xx responses:      20000
Total transferred:      96140000 bytes
HTML transferred:       92180000 bytes
Requests per second:    114.78 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       87.120 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       8.712 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          538.84 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    1   1.6      1      34
Processing:     5   86 254.0     22    6580
Waiting:        4   42 125.7      6    4210
Total:          6   87 254.0     24    6581

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     24
  66%     89
  75%    121
  80%    138
  90%    186
  95%    231
  98%    295
  99%    403
 100%   6581 (longest request)

armv6tel is about 25% slower than armv5tel