ut-sysbench-qt-gui: Compare CPU performance of different devices

johndoe

@kugiigi I made some suggested changes to the app (including 'QtQuick components instead of QtWidgets'). It would be nice if you could try to run it on the Pinephone again and try to performe "Multiple Benchmarks", but be aware, that it will maybe crash again.

kugiigi

@johndoe Yup it's working now on the Pinephone. Thanks

Here's the results. I'm surprised it has a lot better results than phones like Nexus 5

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=2 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
    617 events per second

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=8 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
    1190 events per second

sysbench --test=memory --num-threads=4 run
Operations performed: 104857600 (875326.88 ops/sec)
102400.00 MB transferred (854.81 MB/sec)

sysbench --test=mutex --num-threads=64 run
    total time:                          1.0368s

sven

The new version works perfectly on the Cosmo Communicator.

johndoe

@kugiigi Thank you. Yes, this is really interesting. I think the difference between older phones and newer phones is so big, because the older phones have 32bit ARM CPUs and maybe ARM made changes for their 64bit architecture, that allows the CPU to perform way better in the specific workload in the sysbench CPU test.
What is even more interesting to me, is that that some phones with Mediatek CPUs perform better than the Pixel 3a and that the Librem 5 has similar results to the PinePhone (and not better results with a CPU that costs way more than an Allwinner A64).
I don't think that represents the everyday performance and responsiveness of the phones and I will maybe add a disclaimer to the app, that the results only give a rough idea about the performance, that the sysbench results are not 100% perfect and also other tests should be looked at when comparing devices.

Here are the results of the Librem5 with PureOS and results coming from a newer version of sysbench (maybe this could also explain why it did not perform better than the PinePhone, but I do not think so) :

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=2 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
events per second: 595.77

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=8 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
events per second: 1190.77

sysbench --test=memory --num-threads=4 run
5643286.07 ops per second
5511.02 MiB/sec

sysbench --test=mutex --num-threads=64 run
total time: 16.1842s

Source: https://forums.puri.sm/t/performance-compare-librem-5-to-ubuntu-touch-devices/15425

johndoe

@sven Nice. I would appreciate it, if you could also test the app on your OnePlus 3T and share the results of the benchmarks, if you have time for that.

sven

@johndoe Unfortunately, I borrowed the OnePlus 3T to a colleague; so I cannot run any tests ... at the moment.

johndoe

@sven Ok, no problem.

Yoni

@johndoe
Xiaomi mi A2 results:

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=2 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
1717 events per second

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=8 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
4915 events per second

sysbench --test=memory --num-threads=4 run
Operations performed: 104857600 (6280574.81 ops/sec)
102400.00 MB transferred (6133.37 MB/sec)

sysbench --test=mutex --num-threads=64 run
total time: 1.1919s

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=2 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
1706 events per second

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=8 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
5307 events per second

sysbench --test=memory --num-threads=4 run
Operations performed: 104857600 (6196075.77 ops/sec)
102400.00 MB transferred (6050.86 MB/sec)

sysbench --test=mutex --num-threads=64 run
total time: 1.1151s

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=2 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
1705 events per second

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=2 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
1706 events per second

johndoe

@yoni thank you

A Former User

@johndoe
New version works perfectly on another Cosmo Communicator and another PinePhone.
New export and compare function works flawlessly on both.
Copy and paste results works on Cosmo, if only I could figure out how to Ctrl+V on the PinePhone touchscreen .
Really nice looking app. From my very basic understanding of the numbers I would say the app accurately reflects my experience on the two devices I have in their current state of play.

Cosmo Communicator
sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=2 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
1652 events per second

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=8 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
5287 events per second

sysbench --test=memory --num-threads=4 run
Operations performed: 104857600 (2469862.22 ops/sec)
102400.00 MB transferred (2411.97 MB/sec)

sysbench --test=mutex --num-threads=64 run
total time: 1.2297s

PinePhone
sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=2 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
623 events per second

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=8 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
1201 events per second

sysbench --test=memory --num-threads=4 run
Operations performed: 104857600 (932315.64 ops/sec)
102400.00 MB transferred (910.46 MB/sec)

sysbench --test=mutex --num-threads=64 run
total time: 1.1598s

johndoe

@moncon Thanks, I think you can touch and hold a text field and then tap "Paste" to paste the text, that you have in the clipboard (but I see that you somehow managed to get the data of the Pinephone into your comment). It is good to see that the results are overall consistent with other phones from the same model.

s710

@johndoe said in ut-sysbench-qt-gui: Compare CPU performance of different devices:

Hello,
I wrote an app to compare the performance of different devices and released it on the OpenStore: https://open-store.io/app/ut-sysbench-qt-gui
I hope the arm64 version works, because I can only test the armhf version.
It would be nice, if some of you could share your device's name together with the results you get, after clicking on "Multiple Benchmarks".
"Export and Compare" will copy the results to your clipboard and show you a bar chart with the performace of other devices.

Multiple results from different persons for the same model are also useful.

You are also free to share problems with my app. I know that the memory (RAM) test does not work on all devices.

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Results of my LG Nexus 4 with Ubuntu 16.04 OTA-19:

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=2 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
57 events per second

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=8 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
113 events per second

sysbench --test=memory --num-threads=4 run
Operations performed: 0 ( 0.00 ops/sec)
0.00 MB transferred (0.00 MB/sec)

sysbench --test=mutex --num-threads=64 run
total time: 2.4057s

Nice!

Would it be possible to compile the user results into some kind of diagram/table which allows to easily compare device performance?

johndoe

@s710 @s710 When you click on the button "Export and Compare", you should see a diagram that compares your device with other devices and the test results of your device will also be saved to your clipboard. If you want to export the shown diagram, you could take a screenshot (pressing power up and down at the same time or hold the power button and select "Screenshot" in the Lomiri power menu). You will also find what is shown in the app under:
~/.cache/ut-sysbench-qt-gui/messages/temp_message.txt

The text file under "~/.cache/ut-sysbench-qt-gui/messages/temp_message.txt" should look something like this after you performed a CPU test and clicked on "Export and Compare":

The results of the performed tests have been
copied to your clipboard 📋
(you can paste it into text fields
of other apps or websites).

Comparison CPU Benchmark (2 threads):

Xiaomi Mi A2 | 1717 events/second
...█████████████████████████
Cosmo Commun. | 1652 events/second
...████████████████████████
M10 Tab + 2.gen | 1235 events/second
...██████████████████
Volla Phone | 1091 events/second
...████████████████
Xperia X | 1035 events/second
...███████████████
Pixel 3a | 918 events/second
...█████████████
Pinephone | 620 events/second
...█████████
Librem 5 (PureOS) | 596 events/second
...████████
Nexus 5 | 58 events/second
...█
Nexus 4 | 57 events/second
...█
This device | 57 events/second
...▒
Meizu MX4 | 52 events/second
...█
bq E5 | 46 events/second
...█


Comparison CPU Benchmark (8 threads):

Cosmo Commun. | 5287 events/second
...█████████████████████████
Xiaomi Mi A2 | 4915 events/second
...███████████████████████
M10 Tab + 2.gen | 4005 events/second
...███████████████████
Pixel 3a | 3973 events/second
...██████████████████
Volla Phone | 3788 events/second
...██████████████████
Xperia X | 2467 events/second
...███████████
Librem 5 (PureOS) | 1191 events/second
...██████
Pinephone | 1190 events/second
...██████
Meizu MX4 | 146 events/second
...█
Nexus 4 | 113 events/second
...█
Nexus 5 | 96 events/second
...█
bq E5 | 91 events/second
...█


Comparison Memory Benchmark (no armhf devices):

Xiaomi Mi A2 | 5849 MiB/second
...█████████████████████████
Librem 5 (PureOS) | 5511 MiB/second
...███████████████████████
Pixel 3a | 2560 MiB/second
...███████████████████████
M10 Tab + 2.gen | 2443 MiB/second
...████████
Cosmo Commun. | 2300 MiB/second
...████████
Volla Phone | 2250 MiB/second
...███████
Pinephone | 815 MiB/second
...█
Xperia X | 795 MiB/second
...█


Comparison Mutex Benchmark (less time is better):

Librem 5 (PureOS) | 16.1842 seconds
...█████████████████████████
Meizu MX4 | 3.8107 seconds
...█████
Nexus 5 | 2.7758 seconds
...███
Nexus 4 | 2.4609 seconds
...███
bq E5 | 2.4057 seconds
...███
Volla Phone | 1.8590 seconds
...██
M10 Tab + 2.gen | 1.8361 seconds
...██
Xperia X | 1.6159 seconds
...██
Cosmo Commun. | 1.2297 seconds
...█
Xiaomi Mi A2 | 1.1919 seconds
...█
Pinephone | 1.0368 seconds
...█
Pixel 3a | 0.9193 seconds
...█


The shown benchmarks only give a rough idea
about a device's performance and do not
fully represent the everyday performance of
a device.

s710

@johndoe said in ut-sysbench-qt-gui: Compare CPU performance of different devices:

@s710 @s710 When you click on the button "Export and Compare", you should see a diagram that compares your device with other devices and the test results of your device will also be saved to your clipboard. If you want to export the shown diagram, you could take a screenshot (pressing power up and down at the same time or hold the power button and select "Screenshot" in the Lomiri power menu). You will also find what is shown in the app under:
~/.cache/ut-sysbench-qt-gui/messages/temp_message.txt

The text file under "~/.cache/ut-sysbench-qt-gui/messages/temp_message.txt" should look something like this after you performed a CPU test and clicked on "Export and Compare":

The results of the performed tests have been
copied to your clipboard 📋
(you can paste it into text fields
of other apps or websites).

Comparison CPU Benchmark (2 threads):

Xiaomi Mi A2 | 1717 events/second
...█████████████████████████
Cosmo Commun. | 1652 events/second
...████████████████████████
M10 Tab + 2.gen | 1235 events/second
...██████████████████
Volla Phone | 1091 events/second
...████████████████
Xperia X | 1035 events/second
...███████████████
Pixel 3a | 918 events/second
...█████████████
Pinephone | 620 events/second
...█████████
Librem 5 (PureOS) | 596 events/second
...████████
Nexus 5 | 58 events/second
...█
Nexus 4 | 57 events/second
...█
This device | 57 events/second
...▒
Meizu MX4 | 52 events/second
...█
bq E5 | 46 events/second
...█


Comparison CPU Benchmark (8 threads):

Cosmo Commun. | 5287 events/second
...█████████████████████████
Xiaomi Mi A2 | 4915 events/second
...███████████████████████
M10 Tab + 2.gen | 4005 events/second
...███████████████████
Pixel 3a | 3973 events/second
...██████████████████
Volla Phone | 3788 events/second
...██████████████████
Xperia X | 2467 events/second
...███████████
Librem 5 (PureOS) | 1191 events/second
...██████
Pinephone | 1190 events/second
...██████
Meizu MX4 | 146 events/second
...█
Nexus 4 | 113 events/second
...█
Nexus 5 | 96 events/second
...█
bq E5 | 91 events/second
...█


Comparison Memory Benchmark (no armhf devices):

Xiaomi Mi A2 | 5849 MiB/second
...█████████████████████████
Librem 5 (PureOS) | 5511 MiB/second
...███████████████████████
Pixel 3a | 2560 MiB/second
...███████████████████████
M10 Tab + 2.gen | 2443 MiB/second
...████████
Cosmo Commun. | 2300 MiB/second
...████████
Volla Phone | 2250 MiB/second
...███████
Pinephone | 815 MiB/second
...█
Xperia X | 795 MiB/second
...█


Comparison Mutex Benchmark (less time is better):

Librem 5 (PureOS) | 16.1842 seconds
...█████████████████████████
Meizu MX4 | 3.8107 seconds
...█████
Nexus 5 | 2.7758 seconds
...███
Nexus 4 | 2.4609 seconds
...███
bq E5 | 2.4057 seconds
...███
Volla Phone | 1.8590 seconds
...██
M10 Tab + 2.gen | 1.8361 seconds
...██
Xperia X | 1.6159 seconds
...██
Cosmo Commun. | 1.2297 seconds
...█
Xiaomi Mi A2 | 1.1919 seconds
...█
Pinephone | 1.0368 seconds
...█
Pixel 3a | 0.9193 seconds
...█


The shown benchmarks only give a rough idea
about a device's performance and do not
fully represent the everyday performance of
a device.

Hey, thanks for the summary, thats really interesting. I didn't test the app, I was rather thinking that this kind of diagram could be very helpful for someone who wants to pick a device to UT. It could maybe also be integrated into the devices list on the website?

Oh, and could anyone do a OnePlus 6T, as I was wondering if it would perform better than the VollaPhone?

ikoz

OnePlus Nord 2:

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=2 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
2392 events per second

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=8 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
4593 events per second

sysbench --test=memory --num-threads=4 run
Operations performed: 104857600 (3975633.77 ops/sec)
102400.00 MB transferred (3882.45 MB/sec)

sysbench --test=mutex --num-threads=64 run
total time: 0.7016s

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=2 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
2379 events per second

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=8 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
4026 events per second

sysbench --test=memory --num-threads=4 run
Operations performed: 104857600 (3805878.96 ops/sec)
102400.00 MB transferred (3716.68 MB/sec)

sysbench --test=mutex --num-threads=64 run
total time: 0.6906s

johndoe

@ikoz thank you really much. I was offline for some time and did not see your post, but I will add this data to the app with the next update.

johndoe

Hello,
I moved this app from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 20.04.
Some things changed with this and I am not sure, if the test is still consistent between versions (do to possible optimizations with 20.04 and a newer sysbench version).
I would be thankful, if some of you could install the app on a device with Ubuntu 20.04 and post the result after clicking on "Multiple Benchmarks".
Please do not switch to other apps or rotate the screen of your device while the test is running.
Should there be significant differences between OS versions, I will maybe need to consider this when working on the compare feature.
Thanks to everyone who helped me with this app and everyone who wants to help.

messayisto

@johndoe these are the results on my xiaomi mi a 2, devel, focal:

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=2 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
     1567 events per second

sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=8 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
     2890 events per second

sysbench --test=memory --num-threads=4 run
Total operations: 50334961 (5028438.35 per second)
49155.24 MiB transferred (4910.58 MiB/sec)

sysbench --test=mutex --num-threads=64 run
     total time:                          8.6976s

hope that helps!

johndoe

@messayisto Yes, thank you. This helps to confirm, that the test result of the app is not comparable between different OS versions.

Just to be sure: You also did not turn the screen of your device off when the test was running?

messayisto

@johndoe No, I left the screen on, the test took only a few seconds.