32-core 3.3Ghz ARM Server Review

NicoD · November 9, 2020

Today I had the pleasure of benchmarking an ARM64 server.
This server has been made available for Armbian to test native ARM64 image building.
I knew nothing about the server. Nobody told me any details.
So everything was an adventure for me to find out. I got SSH access, so my research began.

A lscpu informed me it had 32-cores all clocked at 3.3Ghz.

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nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ lscpu
Architecture:                    aarch64
CPU op-mode(s):                  32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:                      Little Endian
CPU(s):                          32
On-line CPU(s) list:             0-31
Thread(s) per core:              1
Core(s) per socket:              32
Socket(s):                       1
NUMA node(s):                    1
Vendor ID:                       APM
Model:                           2
Model name:                      X-Gene
Stepping:                        0x3
CPU max MHz:                     3300.0000
CPU min MHz:                     363.9700
BogoMIPS:                        80.00
L1d cache:                       1 MiB
L1i cache:                       1 MiB
L2 cache:                        4 MiB
NUMA node0 CPU(s):               0-31
Vulnerability Itlb multihit:     Not affected
Vulnerability L1tf:              Not affected
Vulnerability Mds:               Not affected
Vulnerability Meltdown:          Mitigation; PTI
Vulnerability Spec store bypass: Vulnerable
Vulnerability Spectre v1:        Mitigation; __user pointer sanitization
Vulnerability Spectre v2:        Vulnerable
Vulnerability Srbds:             Not affected
Vulnerability Tsx async abort:   Not affected
Flags:                           fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid

cat /proc/cpuinfo confirmed these 32-cores

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nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor	: 0
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 1
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 2
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 3
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 4
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 5
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 6
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 7
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 8
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 9
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 10
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 11
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 12
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 13
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 14
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 15
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 16
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 17
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 18
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 19
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 20
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 21
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 22
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 23
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 24
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 25
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 26
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 27
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 28
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 29
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 30
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

processor	: 31
BogoMIPS	: 80.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x50
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0x000
CPU revision	: 2

Checking on what kernel we're on. Ubuntu Focal 5.4.0-52-generic.

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nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ uname -a
Linux worksonarmbian.armbian.com 5.4.0-52-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 15 11:33:25 UTC 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

And how much memory. 128GB RAM.

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nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:      131364500     1140208    94001792       17772    36222500   129031404
Swap:       4688508           0     4688508

So first thing I wanted to know, how does one core perform with 7-zip benchmark?
The record I had seen until now was from the A73 cores from the Odroid N2+ clocked at 2.4Ghz. 2504MIPS decompression.
So :
taskset -c 31 7z b

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nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ taskset -c 31 7z b

7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,32 CPUs LE)

LE
CPU Freq: - - - - - - - - -

RAM size:  128285 MB,  # CPU hardware threads:  32
RAM usage:   7060 MB,  # Benchmark threads:     32

                       Compressing  |                  Decompressing
Dict     Speed Usage    R/U Rating  |      Speed Usage    R/U Rating
         KiB/s     %   MIPS   MIPS  |      KiB/s     %   MIPS   MIPS

22:       2396   100   2331   2331  |      32866   100   2803   2803
23:       2259   100   2303   2303  |      32116   100   2779   2779
24:       2157   100   2320   2320  |      31358   100   2753   2752
25:       2067   100   2361   2361  |      30524   100   2717   2717
----------------------------------  | ------------------------------
Avr:             100   2329   2328  |              100   2763   2763
Tot:             100   2546   2546

This beats the Odroid N2+ its A73 cores clocked at 2.4Ghz. 2763 vs 2504MIPS decompression.
This also tells me these cores do not perform as good per clock as a high performance core.
While doing the single core benchmark I checked the sensors to know the wattage and temperature.

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nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature:  +51.0°C  
CPU power:        21.72 W  
IO power:          9.81 W  

nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature:  +51.0°C  
CPU power:        18.31 W  
IO power:          9.75 W  

nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature:  +51.0°C  
CPU power:        19.06 W  
IO power:          9.88 W

CPU power is about 20W for a single core tasks.
Without a load the CPU consumes between 10W-15W. So in total it consumes a bit more than 20W in idle.
Temperature never went under 49C even after +5 minutes in idle.

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nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature:  +54.0°C  
CPU power:        13.22 W  
IO power:         10.03 W  

nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature:  +54.0°C  
CPU power:        15.50 W  
IO power:         10.03 W  

nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature:  +53.0°C  
CPU power:        11.91 W  
IO power:          9.94 W  

nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature:  +49.0°C  
CPU power:        13.59 W  
IO power:          9.78 W  

nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature:  +49.0°C  
CPU power:        11.19 W  
IO power:          9.94 W

Of course, the next thing to do is an all-core 7zip benchmark.
This gives an amazing result. Way higher than anything I had ever seen on ARM.

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nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ 7z b

7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,32 CPUs LE)

LE
CPU Freq: - - - - - - - - -

RAM size:  128285 MB,  # CPU hardware threads:  32
RAM usage:   7060 MB,  # Benchmark threads:     32

                       Compressing  |                  Decompressing
Dict     Speed Usage    R/U Rating  |      Speed Usage    R/U Rating
         KiB/s     %   MIPS   MIPS  |      KiB/s     %   MIPS   MIPS

22:      58550  2735   2082  56958  |    1027823  3151   2782  87652
23:      56799  2761   2096  57872  |    1002539  3141   2762  86751
24:      54973  2821   2096  59107  |     976406  3142   2728  85702
25:      52913  2838   2129  60414  |     941588  3120   2685  83795
----------------------------------  | ------------------------------
Avr:            2789   2101  58588  |             3139   2739  85975
Tot:            2964   2420  72281

85975MIPS decompression. This is amazing.
Best I had seen was 11000MIPS of the Odroid N2+. So this server does 8 x better than the N2+.
Tho, I must say. 7zip does bad with unequal clusers. The N2+ has a great difference in cluster frequencies. So it performs worse then expected here.

The wattage went a lot higher, up to 110W. And the temperature rose quickly up to 75C in seconds.

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nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature: +68.0°C
CPU power: 110.25 W
IO power: 10.16 W

nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature: +71.0°C
CPU power: 54.44 W
IO power: 10.47 W

nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature: +67.0°C
CPU power: 22.47 W
IO power: 10.09 W

nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature: +75.0°C
CPU power: 110.12 W
IO power: 10.47 W

nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature: +73.0°C
CPU power: 92.00 W
IO power: 10.94 W

nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature: +65.0°C
CPU power: 96.25 W
IO power: 11.22 W

nicod@worksonarmbian:~$ sensors
apm_xgene-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
SoC Temperature: +61.0°C
CPU power: 110.12 W
IO power: 10.78 W

To test the internet connection I downloaded an Armbian image multiple times. Sometimes it was as low as 3MB/s.
Highest average speed I've seen was 12.5MB/s

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wget https://minio.k-space.ee/armbian/dl/nanopim4v2/archive/Armbian_20.08.1_Nanopim4v2_bionic_legacy_4.4.213_desktop.img.xz     674.64M  9.47MB/s    in 64s
                                                                                                                                674.64M  11.8MB/s    in 61s 
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                674.64M  12.5MB/s    in 56s

Next test. BMW Blender render benchmark.
Here the fastest I had ever seen was by the Khadas VIM3. That did it in 42m51s.
I haven't done this yet with the N2+ in Armbian. In Odroid's Ubuntu it was a little slower. I expect it to be a little faster than the VIM3 in Armbian Bionic.
This is a tile based test. So every core gets its own task, until all tiles are done.

Well, this ARM64 server did this in 8m27s.
5 x faster compared to the Khadas VIM3.

For this the wattage didn't go over 85W. But the temperature did rise to 83C. So it started to throttle.

@lanefu already had done SBC-Bench on it when it was free. So this I didn't have to do myself.
http://ix.io/2Dcc
Here we see a lot. For example the CPUMiner did : 81.0kH/s
The Odroid N2+ : 14 kH/s 5.7 x less

RK3399 does a maximum of : 10.23kH/s 8 x less
Odroid C2 clocked at 1.75Ghz : 4.65kH/s 17 x less

So this server clearly can move a lot of bits around.
Now, what is this server? Ask google if nobody else tells me. "32 core ARM server 3.3Ghz"
First answer : https://www.theregister.com/2018/09/18/ampere_shipping/
That looks like it is this CPU. But still I can't find the exact name.
2nd answer : https://www.servethehome.com/ampere-32-core-64-bit-arm-chip-x-gene-3-ip/
So this is the Ampere 32-core 64-bit from X-Gene 3 IP.

Here the wikichip : https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apm/x-gene/apm883832-x3?fbclid=IwAR0ljCQ61DY8Zwh_VyZd0fQH43dmPUTJA-CGLiQKYqU2fWwszFm1CPjH6Zo

This supports up to 1TB RAM. 8 channels @ 2666Mhz. With a maximum memory bandwidth of 158.95 GiB/s.
42 lanes of PCIe Gen 3, with 8 controllers
– x16 or two x8/x4
– x16 or two x8/x4
– x8 or two x4
– Two x1

4 x SATA Gen 3 ports, 2 x USB2. And a TDP of 125W TDP.

For me this is just an awesome thing to behold. I use ARM for almost everything.
The NanoPi M4V2 is my main desktop computer.
It isn't as powerful as my PC, but does the task for 10 x less power consumption, while being completely silent.

But when I need a big CPU, it isn't enough.
Even the more powerful Odroid N2+ isn't powerful enough to render long, +20minutes 1440p video's for example for my Youtube channel.
So then i need to use my x86/amd64 PC.

Today I have seen and tasted the future.
While this doesn't use the most modern Cortex/clusters. And it is only 16nm.
So there is still a lot of room for improvements in performance and lower power consumption.

ARM for desktop is possible, and ARM servers for big datacenters is possible(AWS). I have seen the future, I loved every second of it.

Here benchmarks compared to my SBCs

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7-zip works a bit better on 32-bit vs 64-bit, it doesn't use all cores at 100% in multi-core scores. The percentage differs with different distro's and boards. So it's not completely exact.
7-zip has problems with big-LITTLE architecture for multi-core benchmark. Better to test the clusters seperately.
Blender works a lot better on 64-bit than on 32-bit. It uses 100% of the cores.
CPU Miner only works on 64-bit. Works better in Ubuntu Bionic than in Debian Stretch.

Blender : BMW render @ 1080p
7-zip : Numbers are average of 3 of decompressing only

All tests are done with a fan when necessary so no throttling occurs.

64-bit SBC's   

ARM Server 32-cores    |SBC bench result  |CPU Miner      |7-zip s/c 3.3Ghz             |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender 
Ubuntu 5.4.0-52-generic http://ix.io/2Dcc  81.0kH/s            2745                      86500                   8m27s


Khadas VIM3            |SBC bench result  |CPU Miner      |7-zip s/c A53 |7-zip b/c A73 |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender 
Ubuntu 18.04.02         http://ix.io/1MFD  13.10kH/s           1577       2311           10578                  42m51s	
Armbian@1.9S.C./1.7B.C. http://ix.io/1NRJ

Odroid N2              |SBC bench result  |CPU Miner      |7-zip s/c A53 |7-zip b/c A73 |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender    
Ubuntu Bionic           http://ix.io/1Brv  11.35kH/s           1564       1879           9988                   50m28s

NanoPC T3+             |SBC bench result  |CPU Miner          |7-zip s/c |7-zip b/c     |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender    
Armbian Bionic          http://ix.io/1iRJ  10.99kH/s           1290                      10254                  1h10m25s    
Arbmian Stretch         http://ix.io/1qiF  8.55kH/s            1275                      10149                  1h13m55s    

Rock Pi 4B             |SBC bench result  |CPU Miner          |7-zip s/c |7-zip b/c     |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender    
Ubuntu                  http://ix.io/1uVr  9.50kH/s            1242       1818           7802                   1h17m22s

NanoPi M4              |SBC bench result  |CPU Miner          |7-zip s/c |7-zip b/c     |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender   
Armbian bionic hz1000   http://ix.io/1nLh  10.23kH/s           1335       2005           8352                   1h13m50s   
 CONFIG_HZ=250          http://ix.io/1BLW  10.45kH/s           1335       2007           8320                   1h08m28s
Armbionic@1.4/1.8 hz250                                        1253       1828           7821                   1h12m52s

Armbian bionic nightly  http://ix.io/1pDo  10.24kH/s           1329       1990           8292                   1h13m28s  
Armbian stretch desktop http://ix.io/1odF  8.66kH/s            1350       1977           8400                   1h14m12s   
Armbian stretch dsk nightly  //ix.io/1pM0  8.80kH/s            1359       1993           8500                   1h15m04s   
Armbian stretch core no fan  //ix.io/1pKU  8.80-8.65kH/s       1353       1989           8461
Armbian stretch core         //ix.io/1pL9  8.76kH/s            1354       1988           8456
Armbian stretch core nightly //ix.io/1pLf  8.82kH/s            1357       1994           8494
Lubuntu Bionic arm64    http://ix.io/1oGJ  9.24kH/s CPU Miner  1056       1551           6943                   1h28m13s             
Lubuntu Bionic armhf    http://ix.io/1pJ1                      1111       1769           7705                   2h02m54s   
Lubuntu Xenial armhf	http://ix.io/1oCb                      989        1507           6339                   2h20m51s  

Khadas Vim2 Max        |SBC bench result  |CPU Miner          |7-zip s/c |7-zip b/c     |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender  
Ubuntu Xenial           http://ix.io/1qkA  6.86kH/s            823        1134           6682                   1h14m39s      7-zip only 600% of 800% used

Raspberry Pi 4B        |SBC bench result  |CPU Miner          |7-zip big core           |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender    



Odroid C2              |SBC bench result  |CPU Miner          |7-zip big core           |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender    
Armbian Stretch Core    http://ix.io/1pZu  4.65kH/s            1390                      5342
Armbian Stretch Core Nightly //ix.io/1pZJ  4.66kH/s            1391                      5340
Armbian Stretch Desktop http://ix.io/1q1C  4.65kH/s            1394                      5363                              
Armbian Stretch Desktop NGHT //ix.io/1p02  4.59kH/s            1394                      5356                   2h38m18s    
Meveric Stetch  No-OC                                          1337                      5223                   2h40m00s   
Meveric Stretch Only RAM OC                                    1361                      5292                               
Meveric Stretch OC                                             1548                      6049                   2h14m17s               
Ubuntu Mate Bionic      http://ix.io/1q2S  clocked to 100Mhz                                                    2h35m10s  
Ubuntu Mate Bionic OC   Doesn't work/Clocked to 100Mhz         1607                      5960                   2h10m21s   

Rock64                 |SBC bench result  |CPU Miner          |7-zip small core         |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender   
Armbian Stretch 1.5Ghz  http://ix.io/1nCj  4.06kH/s            1406                      5407                   3h00n32s   
OLD Armbian Stretch 1.3Ghz   //ix.io/1iHB  3.80kH/s            1211                      4904
Armbian Bionic 1.5Ghz core   //ix.io/1qbK  5.00kH/s            1384                      5379                                              
Armbian Bionic 1.5Ghz dsk    //ix.io/1qcb  4.94kH/s            1379                      5326                   2h55m56s   

32-bit SBC's

Odroid XU4             |SBC bench result                      |7-zip s/c |7-zip b/c     |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender   
Debian Jessie           http://ix.io/1q6X                      950        1653           8823                   1h12m19s   
Ubuntu Bionic           http://ix.io/1qbL                      1219       2094           9395                   1h44m19s   

Asus Tinker board      |SBC bench result                                 |7-zip big core|7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender   
Tinker OS 9.5 Stretch   http://ix.io/1pRN                                 1983           7536                   2h55m00s    

Raspberry Pi 3B+       |SBC bench result                      |7-zip small core         |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender  
Raspbian Default no fan http://ix.io/1q10                      1471                      5027                             
Raspbian Default        http://ix.io/1q1Q                      1411                      5371                   5h47m31s   
Raspbian OC             http://ix.io/1q5J                      1591                      6141                               
Ubuntu Mate Xenial      http://ix.io/1q65 7-zip didn't work                                                                

Software versions
-----------------
                                      GIMP        Blender      GTKPerf     SysBench                     SBC-bench
M4 : Lubuntu Xenial armhf             2.8.18      2.79b        0.40        0.4.12                       0.6.1
     Lubuntu Bionic armhf :           2.8.22      2.79b        0.40        1.0.11 LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3    0.6.1
     Armbian Stretch desktop 9.5 :    2.8.18      2.79b        0.40        0.4.12                       0.6.1
     Armbian Bionic :                 2.8.22      2.79b        0.40        1.0.11 LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3    0.6.1
Tinker : TinkerOS 9.5 Stretch :       2.8.18      2.79b        0.40        0.4.12                       0.6.1
Odroid C2 : Armbian Stretch 9.5 :     2.8.18      2.79b        0.40        0.4.12                       0.6.1
          : Ubuntu Mate Bionic :      2.8.22      2.79b        0.40        1.0.11 LuqJIT 2.1.0-beta3    0.6.1 Doesn't work clocks to 100Mhz
          : Meveric Stretch 9.5 :     2.8.18      2.79b        0.40        0.4.12                       Doesn't work
Rock64    : Armbian Stretch 9.5:      2.8.18      2.79b	       0.40        0.4.12                       0.6.1
          : Armbian Bionic :          2.8.22      2.79b        0.40        1.0.11                       0.6.2
RPi 3b+ : Raspbian Stretch 9.5 :      2.8.18      2.78a        0.40        0.4.12                       0.6.1
          Ubuntu Mate Xenial :        2.8.16                   0.40        0.4.12                       0.6.1
Odroid XU4 : Debian Jessie :          2.8.14      2.72b        0.40        0.4.12                       0.6.1 7-zip doesn't work
           : Ubuntu Bionic :          2.8.22      2.79b        0.40        1.0.11                       0.6.2 
NanoPC T3+ : Armbian Bionic :         2.8.22      2.79b	       0.40        1.0.11                       0.4.6
             Armbian Stretch :                    2.79b        0.40        0.4.12                       0.6.2
Khadas Vim2 Max : Ubuntu Xenial :     2.8.16      2.76b        0.40        0.4.12                       0.6.2
			 
			 
CPU Clocks
----------
ARM 32-cores : Ubuntu Focal           : 32x3.3Ghz                                             64-bit
Khadas VIM3 :  Ubuntu Bionic          : 2x1.8Ghz(A53) + 4x2.2Ghz(A73)                         64-bit
Odroid N2 :    Ubuntu Bionic          : 2x1.9Ghz(A53) + 4x1.8Ghz(A73)                         64-bit
NanoPi M4 :    Armbian Bionic/Stretch : 2x2Ghz + 4X1.5Ghz                                     64-bit
               Lubuntu armhf/ARM64    : 2x1.8Ghz + 4X1.4Ghz                                   armhf 32-bit / ARM64 64-bit
Tinker Board : TinkerOS Stretch       : 4x1.8Ghz                                              32-bit
Odroid C2 :    Armbian Stretch        : 4x1.5Ghz                                              64-bit
               Ubuntu Mate Bionic     : 4x1.5Ghz RAM 912Mhz                                   64-bit
               Ubuntu Mate Bionic OC  : 4x1.75Ghz + RAM 1104Mhz                               64-bit
Rock64 :       Armbian Stretch        : 4x1.5Ghz                                              64-bit
               Armbian Bionic         : 4x1.5Ghz                                              64-bit
RPi 3B+ :      Raspbian Stretch       : 4x1.4Ghz no fan 4x1.2Ghz above 60°C                   32-bit
               Raspbian Stretch OC    : 4x1.570Ghz over_voltage=4 core_freq=500 sd_freq=510   32-bit
               Ubuntu Xenial          : 4x1.4Ghz                                              32-bit
Odroid XU4 :   Debian Stretch         : 4x1.4Ghz + 4x1.9Ghz                                   32-bit
           :   Ubuntu Mate Bionic     : 4x1.5Ghz + 4x2Ghz   Underclocks when above 75°C       32-bit
NanoPC T3+ :   Armbian Bionic         : 8x1.4Ghz                                              64-bit

Some benchmark tools can give an estimate of the performance. But they are never an exact reflection.

Greetings, NicoD

Salvador Liébana · November 9, 2020

amazing review NicoD!! I think that if next gen ARM SBC can address discrete GPUs we can wait for mesa drivers without the pain of just waiting forever. with a discrete amd GPU we can just use box86 (and the upcoming box64) to run our favorite software if needed. it's just an step forward on ARM independence. yes, I am a bit afraid with all those changes on ARM holding, but I believe we can survive. hope so. Salvador.

NicoD · November 9, 2020

4 minutes ago, Salvador Liébana said:

amazing review NicoD!! I think that if next gen ARM SBC can address discrete GPUs we can wait for mesa drivers without the pain of just waiting forever. with a discrete amd GPU we can just use box86 (and the upcoming box64) to run our favorite software if needed. it's just an step forward on ARM independence. yes, I am a bit afraid with all those changes on ARM holding, but I believe we can survive. hope so. Salvador.

Patience will pay. If not for the human malware we might have had it already. RK3588 must have PCIe, I hope x16. And USB 3.2 maybe? I don't want to know before I've got it...

forever_ noob · November 10, 2020

Amazing! Nice review @NicoD!

NicoD · November 10, 2020

Here my review video about the server.

TRS-80 · November 12, 2020

Interesting glimpse into how the other half lives, lol, thanks a lot for sharing this with us Nico.

On 11/9/2020 at 10:44 PM, Salvador Liébana said:

I am a bit afraid with all those changes on ARM holding

I share your concerns, and I am sure many others do as well.

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