ODROID-U3: 2GiB ram and quad core 1.7Ghz CPU at a whopping $59

jheengut · 07-28-2014, 02:24 PM

got one and planning to install slackware on it

enine · 07-28-2014, 07:00 PM

Can you download and run some sort of benchmark test on it, something that can be ran on a normal Slackware box? All the benchmarks I see for the ODROID seem to be comparing to the Pi, but I want to compare to my current box.

Here we go
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/system/nbench/

Code:

BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                    :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :           956.8  :      24.54  :       8.06
STRING SORT         :          146.26  :      65.35  :      10.12
BITFIELD            :      5.5134e+08  :      94.57  :      19.75
FP EMULATION        :          129.56  :      62.17  :      14.35
FOURIER             :          9719.3  :      11.05  :       6.21
ASSIGNMENT          :          37.046  :     140.97  :      36.56
IDEA                :          5433.8  :      83.11  :      24.68
HUFFMAN             :          2574.8  :      71.40  :      22.80
NEURAL NET          :          43.997  :      70.68  :      29.73
LU DECOMPOSITION    :          1614.7  :      83.65  :      60.40
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 69.569
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 40.278
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU                 : Dual GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7500  @ 2.20GHz 800MHz
L2 Cache            : 4096 KB
OS                  : Linux 3.10.17-smp
C compiler          : gcc version 4.8.2 (GCC) 
libc                : libc-2.17.so
MEMORY INDEX        : 19.404
INTEGER INDEX       : 15.970
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 22.340
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
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drmozes · 07-29-2014, 04:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enine

Can you download and run some sort of benchmark test on it, something that can be ran on a normal Slackware box? All the benchmarks I see for the ODROID seem to be comparing to the Pi, but I want to compare to my current box.

Out of curiosity I have run it on my Trimslice, upon which most of Slackware ARM's packages are built:

Code:

BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                    :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :          466.84  :      11.97  :       3.93
STRING SORT         :          61.369  :      27.42  :       4.24
BITFIELD            :      1.6582e+08  :      28.44  :       5.94
FP EMULATION        :          106.06  :      50.89  :      11.74
FOURIER             :          463.81  :       0.53  :       0.30
ASSIGNMENT          :           7.633  :      29.04  :       7.53
IDEA                :            1672  :      25.57  :       7.59
HUFFMAN             :          754.35  :      20.92  :       6.68
NEURAL NET          :         0.71293  :       1.15  :       0.48
LU DECOMPOSITION    :          22.472  :       1.16  :       0.84
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 25.690
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 0.889
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU                 : Dual ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
L2 Cache            :
OS                  : Linux 3.15.6-armv7
C compiler          : gcc version 4.8.3 (GCC)
libc                : libc-2.19.so
MEMORY INDEX        : 5.749
INTEGER INDEX       : 6.957
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 0.493
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38

enine · 07-29-2014, 01:02 PM

Looking at specs I see NVIDIA Tegra 2 @ 1 GHz CPU with 1 GB DDR2-667 RAM
If I take something like your 25.69 integer and multiply by 1.7 (since the U3 is a 1.7GHz CPU) gives 43.6 which is a little slower than my old lappy. It may not scale linearly like that but its a rough estimate.

I was going to calculate for all the #'s but I'm on a work computer and MSExcel is in the middle of a crash.

briselec · 07-30-2014, 12:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by louigi600

My personal experience is that on servers that don't to audio/grafix or other floating point intensive calculations it makes hardly no difference while on personal computer systems the difference is noticeable in may circumstances enev while simply surfing with firefox.
But apart from old nutty me who runs Slackware ARM on their ARM based Netbooks/Tablets and uses them as portable desktop replacement ?
I'd be curious to know if I'm in good company.

I've got Slackware ARM running on a beaglebone black with a 7" touchscreen which has made me even more keen to have Slackware running on my Nexus 7 with it's little bluetooth keyboard. An Arm7 hard float version would be very nice.

louigi600 · 07-30-2014, 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enine

Looking at specs I see NVIDIA Tegra 2 @ 1 GHz CPU with 1 GB DDR2-667 RAM
If I take something like your 25.69 integer and multiply by 1.7 (since the U3 is a 1.7GHz CPU) gives 43.6 which is a little slower than my old lappy. It may not scale linearly like that but its a rough estimate.

I was going to calculate for all the #'s but I'm on a work computer and MSExcel is in the middle of a crash.

The Tegra 2 is dual core the Exynos4412 is a quad core ... so to get a rough idea you should multiply by about 1.7x2=3.4

Quote:

Originally Posted by briselec

I've got Slackware ARM running on a beaglebone black with a 7" touchscreen which has made me even more keen to have Slackware running on my Nexus 7 with it's little bluetooth keyboard. An Arm7 hard float version would be very nice.

Thereat least another two that I know of that may not be registered in this forum ... make a total of 5 of us so far: not many but better then being alone

enine · 07-30-2014, 06:16 AM

I too want a tablet some day. I'm thinking these new Windows 8 tablets should be able to do it hardware wise if I could just buy one without windows.

louigi600 · 08-02-2014, 07:32 AM

I was curious to see if the AC100, that has the same SOC as the trimslice, actually had similar results and in deed it does (Stuart you proababbly asked me for this a long time ago: better late then never) :

Code:

BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                    :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :          547.62  :      14.04  :       4.61
STRING SORT         :          61.327  :      27.40  :       4.24
BITFIELD            :      1.6504e+08  :      28.31  :       5.91
FP EMULATION        :          115.96  :      55.64  :      12.84
FOURIER             :          442.07  :       0.50  :       0.28
ASSIGNMENT          :          7.2465  :      27.57  :       7.15
IDEA                :          1675.9  :      25.63  :       7.61
HUFFMAN             :          760.76  :      21.10  :       6.74
NEURAL NET          :         0.69085  :       1.11  :       0.47
LU DECOMPOSITION    :          21.983  :       1.14  :       0.82
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 26.443
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 0.860
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU                 : Dual
L2 Cache            : 
OS                  : Linux 2.6.38.3
C compiler          : gcc version 4.7.1 (GCC) 
libc                : libc-2.15.so
MEMORY INDEX        : 5.640
INTEGER INDEX       : 7.423
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 0.477
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
* Trademarks are property of their respective holder.

louigi600 · 10-29-2014, 02:30 PM

I ran the benchmark on the IFC6410:

Code:

root@ifc6410:/tmp# nbench

BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                    :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :           942.8  :      24.18  :       7.94
STRING SORT         :             122  :      54.51  :       8.44
BITFIELD            :      1.8974e+08  :      32.55  :       6.80
FP EMULATION        :           218.8  :     104.99  :      24.23
FOURIER             :          868.31  :       0.99  :       0.55
ASSIGNMENT          :          11.346  :      43.17  :      11.20
IDEA                :          2958.8  :      45.25  :      13.44
HUFFMAN             :            1255  :      34.80  :      11.11
NEURAL NET          :          1.3576  :       2.18  :       0.92
LU DECOMPOSITION    :          40.312  :       2.09  :       1.51
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 43.738
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 1.651
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU                 : 4 CPU
L2 Cache            : 
OS                  : Linux 3.4.0-g0214bc3-dirty
C compiler          : gcc version 4.7.1 (GCC) 
libc                : libc-2.15.so
MEMORY INDEX        : 8.628
INTEGER INDEX       : 13.019
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 0.915
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
* Trademarks are property of their respective holder.
You have mail in /var/mail/root
root@ifc6410:/tmp#

aikempshall · 12-05-2014, 05:24 AM

I've managed to install Slackware 14.1 on an Odroid U3 with the xfce desktop, but the fonts are really bad.

I had exactly the same problem when I used another window manager with the standard Odroid Xunbuntu install. See discussion at http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=5381

What are other people's experience?

Alex