This is a crude and simple PI test against the Raspberry-Pi and a Dell Pentuim-4 (3.0Ghz) <\/p>\n
\nThe Raspberry-Pi <\/strong>
\nStarting PI…
\n x= 0.38631 y= 0.89070 low= 939239 j=1200001
\nPi = 3.130797 ztot= 801773.75 itot= 1200000<\/p>\nreal\t0m1.900s
\nuser\t0m1.720s
\nsys\t0m0.000s<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nPentium-4<\/strong>
\nStarting PI…
\n x= 0.38631 y= 0.89070 low= 939239 j=1200001
\nPi = 3.130797 ztot= 801773.75 itot= 1200000<\/p>\nreal\t0m0.099s
\nuser\t0m0.096s
\nsys\t0m0.000s<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThis somewhere between 17x and 19x speed difference, but compairing a ARM RISC ALU with a Pentium’s CISC FPU is not a fair comparison either. In other testing I was doing, I only got a 5x difference in performance, roughtly the difference between the Raspberry-Pi’s 700Mhz and the Pentium’s 3.0Ghz clock frequency. <\/p>\n
As I got this benchmark from an old site, I was amused to note that this benchmark only makes the Raspberry-Pi about 56x times FASTER than a MicroVAX-II, a system I cut my teeth on in my programming life. <\/p>\n
Life’s relative, maybe I should write that down. <\/p>\n
Note; the GPU was NOT part of the testing. <\/p>\n
UPDATE:<\/strong> I managed to get this bencmark to run on a Arduino Uno (16Mhz)<\/a> and the Pi is 126 times faster, So much for using an 8 bit processor as a number cruncher \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n