Let’s compare some cpu ;)

When I bought Samsung Chromebook friend started “nbench” on it. So I did same on my conference laptop. None of devices won…

Idea of testing cpu power was sitting somewhere at back of my head and finally I decided to just run one simple command available on nearly every GNU/Linux based system: “openssl speed”. Sure, on some systems it will use hardware accelerators, on others (or not) some options enabled to get more speed (like ARM assembly version which is not enabled in Debian/Ubuntu systems). But it is something what anyone can run at home.

Table may be hard to decipher so I also give it as Google Docs. It also has few more devices listed and whole tables (one below is for 8192 size samples).

Devices in table are:

  • my Intel Core i7-2600K desktop
  • my Intel U7300 (ultra low voltage) conference laptop
  • Exynos5 Dual powered Samsung ARM Chromebook
  • Exynos4 Dual powered Tizen development platform (got rid of it today)
  • i.mx515 powered Efika MX Smartbook
  • Beaglebone with AM335x cpu
  • Sheevaplug (as only armv5te device which can compare with other entries)

Devices were running different versions of OpenSSL under different systems. It is listed in Google Docs document.

CPU Core i7 U7300 Exynos 5250 Exynos 4210 i.mx515 AM335x Feroceon 88FR131
Architecture x86-64 x86-64 armv7a (a15) armv7a (a9) armv7a (a8) armv7a (a8) armv5te
MHz 3400 1300 1700 1000 800 720 1200
OpenSSL version 1.0.1c 1.0.1c 1.0.1c 1.0.0f 1.0.1a 1.0.0i 1.0.0d
 
md4 1111896 393198 328471 205906 143746 103068 119367
md5 693969 249301 224040 148089 85401 53365 86518
hmac(md5) 686511 248859 225839 149153 86728 54981 87651
sha1 721528 222770 147739 71233 49525 35446 38123
rmd160 247453 93500 106935 57790 40188 26318 30803
rc4 894615 225660 153949 86829 63770 29364 45036
des cbc 73703 27191 37811 21299 14966 8601 8829
des ede3 28091 10578 14183 7806 5526 3005 3130
seed cbc 78204 31181 39002 24361 17650 11671 13087
rc2 cbc 44327 13839 23691 15494 10897 7393 10699
blowfish cbc 133455 52004 49471 37540 23536 15654 20584
cast cbc 118852 49162 55326 31738 22848 15298 20590
aes-128 cbc 127378 95955 65360 22386 16477 10876 11697
aes-192 cbc 106141 81002 55973 18653 13912 9221 9968
aes-256 cbc 90487 69148 48564 16419 12091 7981 8677
camellia-128 187958 44403 58698 15447 23325 15507 14197
camellia-192 141346 33180 45867 12090 18300 12261 11138
camellia-256 141422 33272 45927 12050 18383 12247 11131
sha256 216766 86791 64334 23427 18148 12022 13040
sha512 336729 135935 31126 8877 5321 2484 3221
whirlpool 121211 47920 27820 4602 3840 2262 3085
aes-128 ige 122085 43018 63218 22126 15590 10469 11219
aes-192 ige 102133 36107 54269 18696 13355 8904 9647
aes-256 ige 87514 31001 47636 16307 11635 7735 8433
ghash 1938609 168034 35479 12136

Most interesting columns are U7300 and Exynos 5250 ones — 3 years old laptop which I bought for conferences compared to Chromebook. Looks like for next conferences/events I will rather go with Chromebook not UL30A. This will give me one or two hours of battery life less but it is much lighter device at same time. But have to test it first for few days to check is it comfortable enough for daily use.

Related posts:

  1. I got Efika MX Smartbook from Genesi
  2. Used Chromebook for few days
  3. I did not finished with Chromebook
  4. ARMology

6 thoughts on “Let’s compare some cpu ;)”

  1. your “wall of numbers” makes it hard to see anything, at least right align the numbers and drop the fractions

  2. This is really interesting, thanks for posting it. How does I/O compare across these systems? Memory/disk/network

    1. This is hard to compare I/O in good way. Each device has other internal storage. Testing one SD card or USB drive would not test it too much. Similar with network — sheevaplug has 1GbE which can do 800-900Mbps which is far more then EfikaMX Smartbook can do over WiFi etc.

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