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processor       : 0
model name      : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l)
BogoMIPS        : 2.00
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls 
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xb76
CPU revision    : 7

Hardware        : BCM2708
Revision        : 0010
Serial          : 00000000400b7bc8

The standard 700MHz configuration without any overclocking or config.txt tweaks (2015-01-31-raspbian) and no monitor connected

tinymembench v0.3.9 (simple benchmark for memory throughput and latency)

==========================================================================
== Memory bandwidth tests                                               ==
==                                                                      ==
== Note 1: 1MB = 1000000 bytes                                          ==
== Note 2: Results for 'copy' tests show how many bytes can be          ==
==         copied per second (adding together read and writen           ==
==         bytes would have provided twice higher numbers)              ==
== Note 3: 2-pass copy means that we are using a small temporary buffer ==
==         to first fetch data into it, and only then write it to the   ==
==         destination (source -> L1 cache, L1 cache -> destination)    ==
== Note 4: If sample standard deviation exceeds 0.1%, it is shown in    ==
==         brackets                                                     ==
==========================================================================

 C copy backwards                                     :    127.8 MB/s (1.6%)
 C copy                                               :    136.3 MB/s (1.7%)
 C copy prefetched (32 bytes step)                    :    392.6 MB/s
 C copy prefetched (64 bytes step)                    :    392.6 MB/s
 C 2-pass copy                                        :    131.6 MB/s
 C 2-pass copy prefetched (32 bytes step)             :    242.6 MB/s
 C 2-pass copy prefetched (64 bytes step)             :    242.5 MB/s
 C fill                                               :    744.2 MB/s
 ---
 standard memcpy                                      :    387.6 MB/s
 standard memset                                      :   1458.5 MB/s
 ---
 VFP copy                                             :    162.3 MB/s
 VFP 2-pass copy                                      :    141.2 MB/s
 ARM fill (STRD)                                      :    744.4 MB/s
 ARM fill (STM with 8 registers)                      :   1090.7 MB/s
 ARM fill (STM with 4 registers)                      :   1458.4 MB/s
 ARM copy prefetched (incr pld)                       :    387.6 MB/s
 ARM copy prefetched (wrap pld)                       :    207.3 MB/s
 ARM 2-pass copy prefetched (incr pld)                :    283.3 MB/s
 ARM 2-pass copy prefetched (wrap pld)                :    229.0 MB/s

==========================================================================
== Memory latency test                                                  ==
==                                                                      ==
== Average time is measured for random memory accesses in the buffers   ==
== of different sizes. The larger is the buffer, the more significant   ==
== are relative contributions of TLB, L1/L2 cache misses and SDRAM      ==
== accesses. For extremely large buffer sizes we are expecting to see   ==
== page table walk with several requests to SDRAM for almost every      ==
== memory access (though 64MiB is not nearly large enough to experience ==
== this effect to its fullest).                                         ==
==                                                                      ==
== Note 1: All the numbers are representing extra time, which needs to  ==
==         be added to L1 cache latency. The cycle timings for L1 cache ==
==         latency can be usually found in the processor documentation. ==
== Note 2: Dual random read means that we are simultaneously performing ==
==         two independent memory accesses at a time. In the case if    ==
==         the memory subsystem can't handle multiple outstanding       ==
==         requests, dual random read has the same timings as two       ==
==         single reads performed one after another.                    ==
==========================================================================

block size : single random read / dual random read
      1024 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns 
      2048 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns 
      4096 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns 
      8192 :    0.1 ns          /     0.1 ns 
     16384 :    1.7 ns          /     2.7 ns 
     32768 :   32.5 ns          /    52.8 ns 
     65536 :   52.5 ns          /    75.5 ns 
    131072 :   68.5 ns          /    92.4 ns 
    262144 :  133.2 ns          /   208.4 ns 
    524288 :  228.2 ns          /   398.5 ns 
   1048576 :  275.6 ns          /   497.1 ns 
   2097152 :  299.3 ns          /   547.6 ns 
   4194304 :  311.5 ns          /   573.4 ns 
   8388608 :  318.1 ns          /   586.8 ns 
  16777216 :  322.9 ns          /   596.9 ns 
  33554432 :  345.5 ns          /   643.6 ns 
  67108864 :  378.3 ns          /   709.9 ns 

The standard 700MHz configuration without any overclocking or config.txt tweaks (2015-01-31-raspbian) and a 1920x1080-32@60Hz HDMI monitor connected

tinymembench v0.3.9 (simple benchmark for memory throughput and latency)

==========================================================================
== Memory bandwidth tests                                               ==
==                                                                      ==
== Note 1: 1MB = 1000000 bytes                                          ==
== Note 2: Results for 'copy' tests show how many bytes can be          ==
==         copied per second (adding together read and writen           ==
==         bytes would have provided twice higher numbers)              ==
== Note 3: 2-pass copy means that we are using a small temporary buffer ==
==         to first fetch data into it, and only then write it to the   ==
==         destination (source -> L1 cache, L1 cache -> destination)    ==
== Note 4: If sample standard deviation exceeds 0.1%, it is shown in    ==
==         brackets                                                     ==
==========================================================================

 C copy backwards                                     :    119.3 MB/s (1.7%)
 C copy                                               :    127.4 MB/s (1.5%)
 C copy prefetched (32 bytes step)                    :    365.0 MB/s
 C copy prefetched (64 bytes step)                    :    364.9 MB/s
 C 2-pass copy                                        :    122.9 MB/s
 C 2-pass copy prefetched (32 bytes step)             :    226.3 MB/s
 C 2-pass copy prefetched (64 bytes step)             :    226.3 MB/s
 C fill                                               :    692.4 MB/s
 ---
 standard memcpy                                      :    359.6 MB/s
 standard memset                                      :   1358.7 MB/s
 ---
 VFP copy                                             :    151.8 MB/s
 VFP 2-pass copy                                      :    132.2 MB/s
 ARM fill (STRD)                                      :    692.4 MB/s
 ARM fill (STM with 8 registers)                      :   1026.5 MB/s
 ARM fill (STM with 4 registers)                      :   1358.5 MB/s
 ARM copy prefetched (incr pld)                       :    359.7 MB/s
 ARM copy prefetched (wrap pld)                       :    193.0 MB/s
 ARM 2-pass copy prefetched (incr pld)                :    264.6 MB/s
 ARM 2-pass copy prefetched (wrap pld)                :    213.2 MB/s

==========================================================================
== Memory latency test                                                  ==
==                                                                      ==
== Average time is measured for random memory accesses in the buffers   ==
== of different sizes. The larger is the buffer, the more significant   ==
== are relative contributions of TLB, L1/L2 cache misses and SDRAM      ==
== accesses. For extremely large buffer sizes we are expecting to see   ==
== page table walk with several requests to SDRAM for almost every      ==
== memory access (though 64MiB is not nearly large enough to experience ==
== this effect to its fullest).                                         ==
==                                                                      ==
== Note 1: All the numbers are representing extra time, which needs to  ==
==         be added to L1 cache latency. The cycle timings for L1 cache ==
==         latency can be usually found in the processor documentation. ==
== Note 2: Dual random read means that we are simultaneously performing ==
==         two independent memory accesses at a time. In the case if    ==
==         the memory subsystem can't handle multiple outstanding       ==
==         requests, dual random read has the same timings as two       ==
==         single reads performed one after another.                    ==
==========================================================================

block size : single random read / dual random read
      1024 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns 
      2048 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns 
      4096 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns 
      8192 :    0.1 ns          /     0.1 ns 
     16384 :    2.4 ns          /     3.9 ns 
     32768 :   37.0 ns          /    60.0 ns 
     65536 :   58.4 ns          /    84.2 ns 
    131072 :   76.0 ns          /   102.9 ns 
    262144 :  144.9 ns          /   226.5 ns 
    524288 :  246.1 ns          /   429.4 ns 
   1048576 :  296.6 ns          /   534.4 ns 
   2097152 :  322.0 ns          /   588.1 ns 
   4194304 :  334.9 ns          /   615.5 ns 
   8388608 :  341.9 ns          /   629.8 ns 
  16777216 :  352.3 ns          /   651.9 ns 
  33554432 :  372.5 ns          /   692.7 ns 
  67108864 :  410.4 ns          /   770.0 ns 

Overclocked, running custom-compiled kernel 4.1.15

cpuinfo:

processor       : 0
model name      : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l)
BogoMIPS        : 2.00
Features        : half fastmult vfp edsp java tls 
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xb76
CPU revision    : 7

Hardware        : BCM2708
Revision        : 000e

config.txt:

gpu_mem=16
arm_freq=1050
core_freq=500
sdram_freq=600
avoid_pwm_pll=1
over_voltage=6
over_voltage_sdram=6

Results with 1920x1080-32@60Hz HDMI monitor connected:

tinymembench v0.3.9 (simple benchmark for memory throughput and latency)

==========================================================================
== Memory bandwidth tests                                               ==
==                                                                      ==
== Note 1: 1MB = 1000000 bytes                                          ==
== Note 2: Results for 'copy' tests show how many bytes can be          ==
==         copied per second (adding together read and writen           ==
==         bytes would have provided twice higher numbers)              ==
== Note 3: 2-pass copy means that we are using a small temporary buffer ==
==         to first fetch data into it, and only then write it to the   ==
==         destination (source -> L1 cache, L1 cache -> destination)    ==
== Note 4: If sample standard deviation exceeds 0.1%, it is shown in    ==
==         brackets                                                     ==
==========================================================================

 C copy backwards                                     :    213.7 MB/s (11.8%)
 C copy                                               :    221.5 MB/s (0.7%)
 C copy prefetched (32 bytes step)                    :    543.5 MB/s
 C copy prefetched (64 bytes step)                    :    543.4 MB/s
 C 2-pass copy                                        :    205.5 MB/s
 C 2-pass copy prefetched (32 bytes step)             :    362.4 MB/s
 C 2-pass copy prefetched (64 bytes step)             :    362.6 MB/s
 C fill                                               :   1068.3 MB/s
 ---
 standard memcpy                                      :    307.9 MB/s
 standard memset                                      :   1068.0 MB/s
 ---
 VFP copy                                             :    251.5 MB/s
 VFP 2-pass copy                                      :    219.1 MB/s
 ARM fill (STRD)                                      :   1068.2 MB/s (0.1%)
 ARM fill (STM with 8 registers)                      :   1834.9 MB/s
 ARM fill (STM with 4 registers)                      :   2083.0 MB/s
 ARM copy prefetched (incr pld)                       :    494.5 MB/s
 ARM copy prefetched (wrap pld)                       :    287.8 MB/s
 ARM 2-pass copy prefetched (incr pld)                :    431.7 MB/s
 ARM 2-pass copy prefetched (wrap pld)                :    328.2 MB/s

==========================================================================
== Memory latency test                                                  ==
==                                                                      ==
== Average time is measured for random memory accesses in the buffers   ==
== of different sizes. The larger is the buffer, the more significant   ==
== are relative contributions of TLB, L1/L2 cache misses and SDRAM      ==
== accesses. For extremely large buffer sizes we are expecting to see   ==
== page table walk with several requests to SDRAM for almost every      ==
== memory access (though 64MiB is not nearly large enough to experience ==
== this effect to its fullest).                                         ==
==                                                                      ==
== Note 1: All the numbers are representing extra time, which needs to  ==
==         be added to L1 cache latency. The cycle timings for L1 cache ==
==         latency can be usually found in the processor documentation. ==
== Note 2: Dual random read means that we are simultaneously performing ==
==         two independent memory accesses at a time. In the case if    ==
==         the memory subsystem can't handle multiple outstanding       ==
==         requests, dual random read has the same timings as two       ==
==         single reads performed one after another.                    ==
==========================================================================

block size : single random read / dual random read
      1024 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns
      2048 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns
      4096 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns
      8192 :    0.1 ns          /     0.1 ns
     16384 :    1.1 ns          /     1.8 ns
     32768 :   19.3 ns          /    31.3 ns
     65536 :   31.2 ns          /    44.8 ns
    131072 :   41.9 ns          /    57.1 ns
    262144 :   92.1 ns          /   149.4 ns
    524288 :  153.7 ns          /   272.7 ns
   1048576 :  184.5 ns          /   336.8 ns
   2097152 :  199.9 ns          /   369.9 ns
   4194304 :  207.6 ns          /   386.6 ns
   8388608 :  211.5 ns          /   395.7 ns
  16777216 :  215.2 ns          /   403.4 ns
  33554432 :  218.3 ns          /   410.6 ns
  67108864 :  246.3 ns          /   466.5 ns

Results with no monitor connected and just minimal framebuffer

tinymembench v0.3.9 (simple benchmark for memory throughput and latency)

==========================================================================
== Memory bandwidth tests                                               ==
==                                                                      ==
== Note 1: 1MB = 1000000 bytes                                          ==
== Note 2: Results for 'copy' tests show how many bytes can be          ==
==         copied per second (adding together read and writen           ==
==         bytes would have provided twice higher numbers)              ==
== Note 3: 2-pass copy means that we are using a small temporary buffer ==
==         to first fetch data into it, and only then write it to the   ==
==         destination (source -> L1 cache, L1 cache -> destination)    ==
== Note 4: If sample standard deviation exceeds 0.1%, it is shown in    ==
==         brackets                                                     ==
==========================================================================

 C copy backwards                                     :    228.8 MB/s (14.4%)
 C copy                                               :    236.8 MB/s
 C copy prefetched (32 bytes step)                    :    591.7 MB/s
 C copy prefetched (64 bytes step)                    :    591.5 MB/s
 C 2-pass copy                                        :    224.0 MB/s
 C 2-pass copy prefetched (32 bytes step)             :    397.0 MB/s
 C 2-pass copy prefetched (64 bytes step)             :    397.0 MB/s
 C fill                                               :   1158.0 MB/s
 ---
 standard memcpy                                      :    336.2 MB/s
 standard memset                                      :   1158.1 MB/s
 ---
 VFP copy                                             :    273.6 MB/s
 VFP 2-pass copy                                      :    237.4 MB/s
 ARM fill (STRD)                                      :   1158.0 MB/s
 ARM fill (STM with 8 registers)                      :   1934.4 MB/s
 ARM fill (STM with 4 registers)                      :   2257.4 MB/s
 ARM copy prefetched (incr pld)                       :    540.4 MB/s
 ARM copy prefetched (wrap pld)                       :    314.4 MB/s
 ARM 2-pass copy prefetched (incr pld)                :    472.5 MB/s
 ARM 2-pass copy prefetched (wrap pld)                :    360.9 MB/s

==========================================================================
== Memory latency test                                                  ==
==                                                                      ==
== Average time is measured for random memory accesses in the buffers   ==
== of different sizes. The larger is the buffer, the more significant   ==
== are relative contributions of TLB, L1/L2 cache misses and SDRAM      ==
== accesses. For extremely large buffer sizes we are expecting to see   ==
== page table walk with several requests to SDRAM for almost every      ==
== memory access (though 64MiB is not nearly large enough to experience ==
== this effect to its fullest).                                         ==
==                                                                      ==
== Note 1: All the numbers are representing extra time, which needs to  ==
==         be added to L1 cache latency. The cycle timings for L1 cache ==
==         latency can be usually found in the processor documentation. ==
== Note 2: Dual random read means that we are simultaneously performing ==
==         two independent memory accesses at a time. In the case if    ==
==         the memory subsystem can't handle multiple outstanding       ==
==         requests, dual random read has the same timings as two       ==
==         single reads performed one after another.                    ==
==========================================================================

block size : single random read / dual random read
      1024 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns
      2048 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns
      4096 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns
      8192 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns
     16384 :    0.6 ns          /     1.0 ns
     32768 :   17.0 ns          /    27.6 ns
     65536 :   28.1 ns          /    40.2 ns
    131072 :   36.4 ns          /    49.0 ns
    262144 :   84.4 ns          /   136.7 ns
    524288 :  143.4 ns          /   254.2 ns
   1048576 :  173.1 ns          /   316.0 ns
   2097152 :  188.1 ns          /   347.8 ns
   4194304 :  195.7 ns          /   364.0 ns
   8388608 :  199.8 ns          /   372.9 ns
  16777216 :  203.7 ns          /   381.0 ns
  33554432 :  216.8 ns          /   407.2 ns
  67108864 :  244.3 ns          /   462.5 ns

Kernel 4.9.140-tegra #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 13 00:32:22 PDT 2019 aarch64 GNU/Linux Under xorg, no compositor active, no browser or other cpu hogs.

tinymembench v0.4.9 (simple benchmark for memory thr

==========================================================================
== Memory bandwidth tests                                               ==
==                                                                      ==
== Note 1: 1MB = 1000000 bytes                                          ==
== Note 2: Results for 'copy' tests show how many bytes can be          ==
==         copied per second (adding together read and writen           ==
==         bytes would have provided twice higher numbers)              ==
== Note 3: 2-pass copy means that we are using a small temporary buffer ==
==         to first fetch data into it, and only then write it to the   ==
==         destination (source -> L1 cache, L1 cache -> destination)    ==
== Note 4: If sample standard deviation exceeds 0.1%, it is shown in    ==
==         brackets                                                     ==
==========================================================================

 C copy backwards                                     :   2949.7 MB/s (3.8%)
 C copy backwards (32 byte blocks)                    :   3011.8 MB/s
 C copy backwards (64 byte blocks)                    :   3029.2 MB/s
 C copy                                               :   3642.2 MB/s (4.1%)
 C copy prefetched (32 bytes step)                    :   3824.4 MB/s (0.3%)
 C copy prefetched (64 bytes step)                    :   3825.3 MB/s (0.4%)
 C 2-pass copy                                        :   2726.2 MB/s
 C 2-pass copy prefetched (32 bytes step)             :   2902.6 MB/s (2.5%)
 C 2-pass copy prefetched (64 bytes step)             :   2928.3 MB/s (0.3%)
 C fill                                               :   8541.0 MB/s (0.2%)
 C fill (shuffle within 16 byte blocks)               :   8518.5 MB/s (2.1%)
 C fill (shuffle within 32 byte blocks)               :   8537.1 MB/s (0.1%)
 C fill (shuffle within 64 byte blocks)               :   8528.7 MB/s (0.2%)
 ---
 standard memcpy                                      :   3558.8 MB/s
 standard memset                                      :   8520.2 MB/s
 ---
 NEON LDP/STP copy                                    :   3633.9 MB/s (4.2%)
 NEON LDP/STP copy pldl2strm (32 bytes step)          :   1451.0 MB/s (0.3%)
 NEON LDP/STP copy pldl2strm (64 bytes step)          :   1450.9 MB/s (0.5%)
 NEON LDP/STP copy pldl1keep (32 bytes step)          :   3882.5 MB/s (3.9%)
 NEON LDP/STP copy pldl1keep (64 bytes step)          :   3884.0 MB/s (0.4%)
 NEON LD1/ST1 copy                                    :   3630.8 MB/s (0.3%)
 NEON STP fill                                        :   8537.8 MB/s
 NEON STNP fill                                       :   8544.9 MB/s (1.7%)
 ARM LDP/STP copy                                     :   3635.8 MB/s (0.3%)
 ARM STP fill                                         :   8544.8 MB/s (0.1%)
 ARM STNP fill                                        :   8549.2 MB/s (1.0%)
==========================================================================
== Framebuffer read tests.                                              ==
==                                                                      ==
== Many ARM devices use a part of the system memory as the framebuffer, ==
== typically mapped as uncached but with write-combining enabled.       ==
== Writes to such framebuffers are quite fast, but reads are much       ==
== slower and very sensitive to the alignment and the selection of      ==
== CPU instructions which are used for accessing memory.                ==
==                                                                      ==
== Many x86 systems allocate the framebuffer in the GPU memory,         ==
== accessible for the CPU via a relatively slow PCI-E bus. Moreover,    ==
== PCI-E is asymmetric and handles reads a lot worse than writes.       ==
==                                                                      ==
== If uncached framebuffer reads are reasonably fast (at least 100 MB/s ==
== or preferably >300 MB/s), then using the shadow framebuffer layer    ==
== is not necessary in Xorg DDX drivers, resulting in a nice overall    ==
== performance improvement. For example, the xf86-video-fbturbo DDX     ==
== uses this trick.                                                     ==
==========================================================================

 NEON LDP/STP copy (from framebuffer)                 :    766.0 MB/s
 NEON LDP/STP 2-pass copy (from framebuffer)          :    688.8 MB/s
 NEON LD1/ST1 copy (from framebuffer)                 :    770.6 MB/s (0.1%)
 NEON LD1/ST1 2-pass copy (from framebuffer)          :    681.3 MB/s (0.3%)
 ARM LDP/STP copy (from framebuffer)                  :    766.1 MB/s
 ARM LDP/STP 2-pass copy (from framebuffer)           :    689.1 MB/s


==========================================================================
== Memory latency test                                                  ==
==                                                                      ==
== Average time is measured for random memory accesses in the buffers   ==
== of different sizes. The larger is the buffer, the more significant   ==
== are relative contributions of TLB, L1/L2 cache misses and SDRAM      ==
== accesses. For extremely large buffer sizes we are expecting to see   ==
== page table walk with several requests to SDRAM for almost every      ==
== memory access (though 64MiB is not nearly large enough to experience ==
== this effect to its fullest).                                         ==
==                                                                      ==
== Note 1: All the numbers are representing extra time, which needs to  ==
==         be added to L1 cache latency. The cycle timings for L1 cache ==
==         latency can be usually found in the processor documentation. ==
== Note 2: Dual random read means that we are simultaneously performing ==
==         two independent memory accesses at a time. In the case if    ==
==         the memory subsystem can't handle multiple outstanding       ==
==         requests, dual random read has the same timings as two       ==
==         single reads performed one after another.                    ==
==========================================================================

block size : single random read / dual random read, [MADV_NOHUGEPAGE]
      1024 :    0.0 ns          /     0.1 ns 
      2048 :    0.0 ns          /     0.1 ns 
      4096 :    0.0 ns          /     0.1 ns 
      8192 :    0.0 ns          /     0.1 ns 
     16384 :    0.1 ns          /     0.1 ns 
     32768 :    1.7 ns          /     2.9 ns 
     65536 :    6.4 ns          /     9.5 ns 
    131072 :    9.6 ns          /    12.3 ns 
    262144 :   13.7 ns          /    17.0 ns 
    524288 :   15.8 ns          /    19.7 ns 
   1048576 :   17.3 ns          /    22.1 ns 
   2097152 :   42.1 ns          /    64.2 ns 
   4194304 :   98.5 ns          /   138.1 ns 
   8388608 :  143.9 ns          /   186.3 ns 
  16777216 :  167.2 ns          /   211.2 ns 
  33554432 :  180.1 ns          /   227.1 ns 
  67108864 :  200.0 ns          /   260.2 ns 
block size : single random read / dual random read, [MADV_HUGEPAGE]
      1024 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns 
      2048 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns 
      4096 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns 
      8192 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns 
     16384 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns 
     32768 :    0.0 ns          /     0.0 ns 
     65536 :    6.4 ns          /     9.4 ns 
    131072 :    9.5 ns          /    12.2 ns 
    262144 :   11.2 ns          /    13.1 ns 
    524288 :   12.1 ns          /    13.5 ns 
   1048576 :   12.8 ns          /    13.6 ns 
   2097152 :   27.0 ns          /    33.0 ns 
   4194304 :   90.6 ns          /   127.8 ns 
   8388608 :  123.9 ns          /   153.8 ns 
  16777216 :  139.5 ns          /   161.2 ns 
  33554432 :  147.2 ns          /   163.6 ns 
  67108864 :  154.0 ns          /   167.6 ns 
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