Android-AM1808-AM35x-Comparison

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The Android performance on AM1808 (ARM9) v/s AM3517 (Cortex A8 with SGX) is compared.

• Kernel 2.6.32
  
• Android 2.2 – FroYo
  
• Utility used
  
  • 0xBench
    
  • Image Flipping app Window-bg-speed from developer.android.com
    

Android comparison on ARM9 v/s Cortex A8

Category	Test	AM1808 (ARM9 - 456 MHz)	AM35xx (Cortex A8 600Mhz) without SGX	AM35xx (Cortex A8 600Mhz) with SGX
2D	DrawCanvas DrawCircle DrawCircle2 DrawRect DrawArc DrawImage DrawText	29 fps 8 fps 37 fps 14.67 fps 16 fps 13 fps 9 fps	59 fps 24 fps 60 fps 32 fps 42 fps 46 fps 26 fps	59 fps 29 fps 58.5 fps 36 fps 49 fps 58 fps 30 fps
3D	OpenGLCube OpenGLBlending OpenGLFog FlyingTeapot	26 fps 14.2 fps 12.4 fps 13.5 fps	59 fps 25 fps 24 fps 37 fps	59 fps 63 fps 64 fps 60 fps
Math	Linpack Scimark2:COMPOSITE Scimark2:FTT Scimark2:SOR Scimark2:MONTECARLO Scimark2:SPARSEMATMULT Scimark2:LU	1.7 mflops/s 1.4 mflops/s 1.0 mflops/s 2.4 mflops/s 0.3 mflops/s 1.3 mflops/s 1.8 mflops/s	9.7 mflops/s 11.37 mflops/s 8.18 mflops/s 16.9 mflops/s 3.338 mflops/s 10.369 mflops/s 18.08 mflops/s	9.7 mflops/s 11.37 mflops/s 8.18 mflops/s 16.9 mflops/s 3.338 mflops/s 10.369 mflops/s 18.08 mflops/s
VM	Garbage Collection	10103 msec	9740 msec
Browser	CPU usage with Active Browser	50% CPU Usage	23% CPU usage	23% CPU Usage
UI Performance (No. of Windows or screens per sec)	Image Flipping	24fps	50fps	50fps