Date: March 2017
The Whetstone benchmark is a synthetic benchmark named after its initial code descending from the Whetstone compiler, named after a small village in Leicestershire, England. The Whetstone benchmark primarily measures the floating-point arithmetic performance. (Link)
root@susie:~/sbc-bench > bin/whetstone 500000 > results/whetstone.txt
| System | CPU | Arch | MHz | OS | MIPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi 1B | Broadcom BCM2835 | ARMv6 | 700 | Raspbian 8 | 82.6 |
| Raspberry Pi 0W | Broadcom BCM2835 | ARMv6 | 1000 | Raspbian 8 | 118.2 |
| Beaglebone Black | AM3359 Cortex-A8 | ARMv7 | 1000 | Ubuntu 14.04 | 485.4 |
| Raspberry Pi 2B | Broadcom BCM2836 | ARMv7 | 900 | Raspbian 8 | 487.5 |
| Altera Atlas SoC | 5CSEMA4U23C6N A9 | ARMv7 | 925 | Ubuntu 16.04 | 1923.1 |
| Raspberry Pi 3 | Broadcom BCM2837 | ARMv8 | 1200 | Raspbian 8 | 2000.0 |
| NanoPi NEO 2 | Allwinner H5 | ARMv8 | 1500 | Ubuntu 16.04 | 2381.0 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 | Broadcom BCM2711 | ARMv8 | 1500 | Raspbian 10 | 5555.6 |
The same benchmark was run on the consumer hardware below as a frame of reference:
| System | CPU | Arch | MHz | OS | MIPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple MacMini 2007 | Core 2 Duo T7200 | Intel | 2000 | Linux | 4166.7 |
| Xperia Z4 Tablet | Snapdragon 810 | ARMv8 | 2000 | Android 6.0 | 4545.5 |
| MS Surface Go | Pentium 4415Y | Intel | 1600 | Ubuntu 16.04 | 3333.3 |
| Linode 4GB VM | Xeon E5-2680 VM | Intel | 2800 | Ubuntu 14.04 | 5000.0 |