Comparing computers to phones CPU performance

[BoiseMark]

First off, this is a great resource. Thank you so much for making this information available.

In yesterday's discussion with my coworkers about the future of tablets, phones, and computers, the question came up: how does the horsepower in my pocket compare with my 5 year old laptop?

I came to your site and was happy to see Mobile Devices along with CPU benchmarks. But when I got into the details, I was confused by the column headers. The CPU tables have one column titled "Passmark CPU Mark" while the Mobile Devices has two: "PassMark" and "CPUMark".

Case in point:

Intel Core2 Duo T7300 @ 2.00GHz

• Passmark CPU Mark = 1,154

Samsung Galaxy S II (GT-I9100G)

• PassMark = 1,604
• CPUMark = 3,821

Is it possible to do a relative compare between the two? Would it be right to say the phone is 39% faster (1604 / 1154) or 3.3 times as fast (3821 / 1154)?

Please don't take time to explain something that is already documented in a FAQ. All I need is a pointer.

Thanks for taking time to answer this.

mark

[David (PassMark)]

The CPUMark and Mobile CPUMark values aren't directly comparable. The reason being is that the suite of tests isn't the same on each device. For example phones can't do 64bit, and can't do SMID instructions. So it isn't apples to apples.

What you can roughly compare is the operation / sec, or MB/sec figures of individual tests. But the figures for this aren't in the graphs. You need to look at individual baselines.

We'll dig out a couple of numbers and post them here.

[BoiseMark]

Thanks for the info. I was building a table with the following devices ...

MP/sec / CPU mark / device / processor
? / 7,699 / Dell M4600 / I7-2920XM
? / 3,821 / Samsung Galaxy S II / Snapdragon S3 APQ8060
? / 3,607 / Dell E6420 / i5-2520M
? / 3,369 / Dell Streak 7 / Nvidia Tegra 2
? / 1,335 / Motorola DroidX / TI OMAP3630-1000
? / 1,154 / Dell D630 / T7300

If you can point me to the raw data, I can do my own digging.

[Richard (PassMark)]

As mentioned by David, the CPUMark and Mobile CPUMark values aren't directly comparable. You can roughly compare the performance by comparing the operation / sec, or MB/sec figures of individual tests.

We don't make the raw numbers available, but you can load baselines within PerformanceTest to see results for a particular baseline.

The following numbers are averages from PerformanceTest V6 as at 8/Nov/2011:

Intel Core i7-2920XM
Integer Test ~2178 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~2529 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~1069 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~5291 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~9375 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~26.5 MBytes/Sec

Intel Core i5-2520M
Integer Test ~850 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~1143 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~659 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~2560 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~4501 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~12.6 MBytes/Sec

Intel Core2 Duo T7300
Integer Test ~201 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~440 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~351 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~1150 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~1950 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~ 5.6 MBytes/Sec

Intel Atom N270
Integer Test ~20.9 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~92.0 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~65.8 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~414 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~696 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~2.7 MBytes/Sec

AMD A8-3850
Integer Test ~2344 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~2857 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~1783 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~2952 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~4181 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~17.8 MBytes/Sec

AMD Phenom II X4 955
Integer Test ~582 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~2989 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~808 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~3138 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~4586 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~20.0 MBytes/Sec

AMD C-60
Integer Test ~103 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~435 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~105 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~449 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~681 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~ 2.3 MBytes/Sec

See next post for results for some phones.

[Richard (PassMark)]

The following numbers are averages:

Samsung Galaxy S II (GT-I9100)
Integer Test ~100 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~213 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~49.6Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~694 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~560 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~1.0 MBytes/Sec

Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000)
Integer Test ~32 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~40 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~18.1 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~287 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~208 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~.40 MBytes/Sec

Motorola Atrix (MB860)
Integer Test ~69.7 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~158 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~41.9 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~588 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~364 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~.70 MBytes/Sec

HTC DROID Incredible 2
Integer Test ~30.7 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~60.2 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~16.5 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~224 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~198 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~.35 MBytes/Sec

HTC (T-Mobile) MyTouch3G
Integer Test ~5.9 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~2.4 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~4.1 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~28.3 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~18.3 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~.02 MBytes/Sec

[BoiseMark]

Thanks for the research! This is very enlightening. These numbers show the gap between computers and phones. It is huge.

I compared my old laptop with the fastest phone you list. String, integer, and floating point performance on the phone is roughly half that of the computer (60%, 50%, 48% respectfully) while the prime number and compression performance is a paltry 14% and 18% respectfully.

We still have a long way to go.

Thanks again for all your help!

Have a great evening.

[igadget]

Note 4 vs. Intel pentium T2370

Can you please provide the same data for Galaxy Note 4 (exynos 5433) and Intel pentium T2370, because I had a debate with a computer programmer who claimed that the note 4 is much slower, I know that note 4 is probably faster, but I need to have evidence before I make claims. This would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

As mentioned by "passmark", the CPUMark and Mobile CPUMark values aren't directly comparable. You can roughly compare the performance by comparing the operation / sec, or MB/sec figures of individual tests.

We don't make the raw numbers available, but you can load baselines within PerformanceTest to see results for a particular baseline.

The following numbers are averages from PerformanceTest V6 as at 8/Nov/2011:

Intel Core i7-2920XM
Integer Test ~2178 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~2529 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~1069 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~5291 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~9375 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~26.5 MBytes/Sec

Intel Core i5-2520M
Integer Test ~850 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~1143 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~659 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~2560 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~4501 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~12.6 MBytes/Sec

Intel Core2 Duo T7300
Integer Test ~201 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~440 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~351 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~1150 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~1950 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~ 5.6 MBytes/Sec

Intel Atom N270
Integer Test ~20.9 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~92.0 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~65.8 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~414 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~696 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~2.7 MBytes/Sec

AMD A8-3850
Integer Test ~2344 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~2857 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~1783 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~2952 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~4181 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~17.8 MBytes/Sec

AMD Phenom II X4 955
Integer Test ~582 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~2989 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~808 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~3138 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~4586 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~20.0 MBytes/Sec

AMD C-60
Integer Test ~103 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Test ~435 MOps/Sec
Prime Number Test ~105 Thousand Prime/Sec
String Sorting ~449 Thousand Strings/Sec
Compression ~681 KBytes/Sec
Encryption ~ 2.3 MBytes/Sec

See next post for results for some phones.

[Roman Krnáč]

Hi experts, please help me to solve my problem. Sorry for my English, but I'm just a student. In my work I compare the latest line of processors i7 7700k and Snapdragon 835 ---- can be in devices such as Samsung Galasy s7 .... could you please tell me how to get to the same number as you wrote people up here? Or how make PerformanceTest please? THANK YOU - please answer my mail - romankrnac94@gmail.com ---> need not be used as research in their work and I am forbidden to use the forum.