UP Board performance compared to ARM

[tkaiser]

Just to have some sort of comparison to x86 based SBC I benchmarked my UP Board (lying in the drawer for years) right now:

 

As can be seen the Intel Atom x5-Z8300 CPU will be outperformed by an RK3399 or even an el cheapo NanoPi Fire3 pretty easily: https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/blob/master/Results.md

 

Onboard eMMC performance (16GB on my model) also not that impressive (random IO ok, but sequential write performance below SD card level at just ~20 MB/s):

Internal 32 GB eMMC                                           random    random
              kB  reclen    write  rewrite    read    reread    read     write
          102400       4     2959     3431    16319    16706    11944     3400
          102400      16     6710     6162    23026    23813    21143     6775
          102400     512    15525    20512   100141    97841    98877    20622
          102400    1024    20925    21024   102145   105088   100305    17150
          102400   16384    20425    20749   106923   107996   108337    20844
         1024000   16384    18512    19994   106359   106060   103988    20007

I backed this board in the beginning to check it with NAS usage in mind but never managed to attach fast storage since UP Board (just like LeMaker's Guitar back then) uses the crappy Micro-B USB3 receptacle (designed for OTG/device and not host mode -- you need an UEFI update and a special cable to be able to attach USB3 SuperSpeed peripherals to this board).

 

BTW: kernel situation as crappy as with a lot of ARM boards (or maybe the board now fully works also with mainline kernel -- I don't know). At least the official kernel enabling majority of board features is a 4.9.45 that received zero fixes for over a year now: https://github.com/emutex/ubilinux-kernel