LeMaker Guitar 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
LeMaker Guitar 1 eMMC






LeMaker Guitar 2 eMMC 26.6 6.2 2.4 0.8 0.8 1.0 0.6

Some boards tend to use different web and file browsers, which influences the results, and the boot time is influenced by the different kernels on the different boards.

The application launch times are greatly dependent on the sizes of executables used,  however regardless of the caveats above, it is useful to see the boot/load times of the different systems above.

The LeMaker Guitar was very competitive.

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
LeMaker Guitar 1 933.1 621.4 503.0 521.3 578.5
LeMaker Guitar 2 808.5 529.0 437.7 444.2

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As you can see above, the LeMaker Guitar does quite well. The Raspberry Pi Model B+ has the worst performance here, and the ODROID XU4 is by far the fastest for compiling.

SysBench 0.4.12

1M/10G
Sysbench # Cores CPU (sec) Mem (MB/sec)
Raspberry Pi B+ 1 507.0 88.9
Raspberry Pi 2B 1 295.3 174.4
Raspberry Pi 2B 2 149.9 348.5
Raspberry Pi 2B 4 74.7 648.5
Banana Pro 1 291.6 222.4
Banana Pro 2 147.6 422.3
MIPS CI20 1 138.8 174.7
MIPS CI20 2 69.2 237.0
ODROID C1 1 212.8 288.3
ODROID C1 2 110.1 554.5
ODROID C1 4 57.9 998.3
ODROID XU4 1 89.6 5447.7
ODROID XU4 2 44.8 10416.7
ODROID XU4 4 26.0 19130.8
ODROID XU4 8 16.2 9134.3
ODROID XU4 1 default 216.1
ODROID XU4 2 memory 395.3
ODROID XU4 4 block 447.4
ODROID XU4 8 size 339.3
LeMaker Guitar 1 1 200.4 1660.1
LeMaker Guitar 1 2 100.6 1622.2
LeMaker Guitar 1 4 50.6 1621.2
LeMaker Guitar 1 1 default 263.9
LeMaker Guitar 1 2 memory 503.9
LeMaker Guitar 1 4 block size 687.9
LeMaker Guitar 2 1 172.6 1281.5
LeMaker Guitar 2 2 85.9 1334.1
LeMaker Guitar 2 4 43.4 2143.0
LeMaker Guitar 2 1 default 244.6
LeMaker Guitar 2 2 memory 458.3
LeMaker Guitar 2 4 block size 724.9

The LeMaker Guitar has the second best SysBench CPU performance when using four cores, losing only to the ODROID XU4.

The SysBench memory benchmark, with 1MB block size and 10GB total size, shows the Guitar performing better than the Raspberry Pi 2, but far behind the ODROID XU4.

Article Index

  1. Introduction
  2. A Closer Look at LeMaker Guitar & Base Board
  3. Feature Comparison
  4. Operating Systems, Software Compatibility
  5. Common Applications, WiFi, Bluetooth
  6. Hardware Compatibility
  7. More on Hardware Compatibility
  8. Benchmarks: Booting&Apps, Compiling Emacs, Sysbench
  9. Benchmarks: iperf client & server, NBench, UnixBench
  10. Benchmarks: hdparm, dd, Documentation, Support, Conclusion

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