Hardkernel ODROID XU4 Review

Benchmarks

Booting & Launching Apps

System boot times and application launch times are very important metrics to users, as they are a measure of how “snappy” a system is.

Launch Times media Start Web 1 Web 2 Shell 1 Shell 2 File 1 File 2
Raspberry Pi B+ ADATA 42 15 12 3 2 3 2
Raspberry Pi 2 B ADATA 22.9 8.2 2.5 1 0.5 1 0.5
MIPS CI20 eMMC 115 25 9 4 2 7 2
Banana Pro ADATA 35 3 2 1 0.5 1 0.5
ODROID-C1 ADATA 36.9 11.5 6.8 1.3 0.9 1.8 0.9
ODROID-C1 ADATA UHS 35.4 9.4 6.9 1.2 0.9 1.6 0.8
ODROID-C1 eMMC 25.4 8.9 6.7 1.1 1.1 1.1 0.7
ODROID-XU4 ADATA UHS 40.6 11.1 5.5 1.2 1.1 2.2 0.9
ODROID-XU4 eMMC 25.0 5.4 4.8 1.2 0.6 2.1 1.1

Some boards tend to use different web and file browsers, which influences the results.

The boot time is influenced by the different kernels (and their respective sizes) used on the different boards.

The application launch times are greatly dependent on the sizes of executables used.

Regardless of the caveats above, it is useful to see the boot/load times of the different systems above.

Compiling GNU Emacs 24.4

Here is a real-world large project compilation in order to show the effect of multiple cores on compiling large software projects.

Make -j 1 -j 2 -j 4 -j 6 -j 8 -j 10
Banana Pro 1189.6 724.1 722.4 729.9 739.7
MIPS Create CI20 1459.5 899.5 922.8 923 920.4
Raspberry Pi Model B+ 2770.2 2794.7 2787 2771.5 2765.9
Raspberry Pi 2 Model B 933.3 575.9 403.8 409.2 408.4
ODROID C1 ADATA 790.6 512.3 385.4 384.4 391
ODROID-C1 eMMC 762 471.7 382.6 375.6 366.6
ODROID XU4 ADATA UHS 480.7 302.1 232.8 229.7 190.4 192.0
ODROID XU4 eMMC 438.0 262.3 228.1 175.9 168.1 169.6

A chart really shows the performance differential:

mikronatus.com ODROID-XU4 Review

As you can see from the chart above, the ODROID-XU4 dominates the Emacs compilation benchmark.

If you need to compile large projects, the XU4 thoroughly clobbers the other boards above.

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