Processor Benchmarks
The first processor test doesn’t use Phoronix.
Here we’re testing the time it takes to build fooyin, a graphical music player which now offers awesome directory browser functionality.
It’s a good test of processor speed as fooyin’s build process fully saturates a machine’s cores for almost the entire test.
The FIREBAT puts in a credible performance in this test, building fooyin in exactly 4 minutes outpacing the HP by a shade under 10%. The NUC with its 12 core 16 thread CPU romps home, building the program 4 times faster than the FIREBAT.
There are many other processor benchmarks available, so we’ve picked a few noteworthy tests. We begin with Smallpt.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark smallpt
Smallpt is a C++ global illumination renderer written in less than 100 lines of code. Global illumination is done via unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing and there is multi-threading support via the OpenMP library.
The FIREBAT runs the HP very close in this test. Another credible result.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark compress-pbzip2
pbzip2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines.
This test measures the time needed to compress a file (a .tar package of the Linux kernel source code) using BZIP2 compression.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark crafty
Crafty is a chess program directly derived from Cray Blitz, winner of the 1983 and 1986 World Computer Chess Championships.
This is a benchmark looking at the CPU’s performance through a chess benchmark. This benchmark only uses a single core.
It’s a stellar performance from the FIREBAT in this test. Over 7.3 million nodes per second is an amazing result. Even a well spec desktop machine with an i5-10400 processor scores 7.9 million nodes per second.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark x265
This is a simple test of the x265 encoder run on the CPU with a sample 1080p video file.
The FIREBAT doesn’t outclass the HP machine in this test but it’s not a bad result.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark x265
We repeated the test but this time with a sample 4K video file.
Next page: Page 3 – Memory / Graphics
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / System
Page 2 – Processor
Page 3 – Memory / Graphics
Page 4 – Disk / WiFi
Page 5 – Specifications
Complete list of articles in this series:
| FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC | |
|---|---|
| Part 1 | Introduction to the series with an interrogation of the system |
| Part 2 | Benchmarking the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC |
| Part 3 | Testing the power consumption |
| Part 4 | Multimedia: Watching videos and listening to music |
| Part 5 | How does the FIREBAT fare as a gaming PC? |
| Part 6 | Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 |
| Part 7 | Installing and Configuring EndeavourOS, an Arch-based distro |
| Part 8 | Installing and Configuring Rhino Linux, a rolling release Ubuntu-based distro |
| Part 9 | VirtualBox performance on the FIREBAT |
Backup regularly is good advice with that unknown SSD.
I see you reference a 10th gen Intel machine. Can you provide benchmarks for the kernel build and FLAC encoding times for the i5-10400 so I can compare that to the N100 machine.
Hi James
When I get an opportunity, I will run the benchmarks on the 10th gen machine and update here.
Here are the results for the i5-10400 machine.
Linux Kernel 6.8 compilation took 198 seconds
FLAC audio encoding took 18.2 seconds
Thanks Steve.
The N100 looks very underpowered. I think I’ll stick with my system.