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Individual benchmark run

Arm Cortex-A72

QEMU Virtual Machine · tested Jul 21, 2026, 10:49 PM · uploaded by @lethaltail

In Review · not yet included in the processor average

C score4,886ASM score: 2,657

System information

Processor
Arm Cortex-A72
Computer model
QEMU Virtual Machine
Architecture
ARM64
Physical cores reported by run
4
Hardware threads reported by run
4
L1 cache
1 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
L3 cache
1 MB
Memory
954 MB
Operating system
Arch Linux ARM
Kernel
Linux 7.0.11-2-aarch64-ARCH
Compiler
Clang 22.1.8
FOSSbench version
0.4.2
Total test time
1 min 24 sec

Score summary

C multi-core4,886
C single-core1,973
ASM multi-core2,657
ASM single-core1,062

Test environment

Background monitoring
Available
Average background CPU use
0.5%
Peak background CPU use
1%
Available memory before test
822 MB
Running processes
116
Activity sample duration
10 seconds

Individual workload results

WorkloadRunMeasured performanceRaw throughputScoreElapsedIterationsThreadsChecksum
Native Integer Mathcommon 32-bit multiply/add/rotate mix10% of overall scoreMulti-core1,737.71 Mops/s1,737.71 million work units/sec5,6310.49 seconds134416441373376
Single-core606 Mops/s606 million work units/sec1,9640.43 seconds16112668374579
Wide Integer Math64-bit ALU: madd, umulh, udiv, bitops10% of overall scoreMulti-core14,605.26 Mops/s14,605.26 million work units/sec47,3270.52 seconds795417194618863556417004
Single-core4,251.22 Mops/s4,251.22 million work units/sec13,7760.52 seconds928115026287240775868885
Floating Point Mathdouble: fmadd, fdiv, fsqrt10% of overall scoreMulti-core319.09 Mops/s319.09 million work units/sec1,8970.5 seconds20443418098292859128
Single-core115.83 Mops/s115.83 million work units/sec6890.54 seconds3114622540543000602686
Prime Numberssieve of Eratosthenes to 2M10% of overall scoreMulti-core184.89 Mcand/s184.89 million work units/sec2,2770.39 seconds945361588
Single-core120.9 Mcand/s120.9 million work units/sec1,4890.53 seconds3214765856
Extended InstructionsNEON ASIMD: 128-bit integer + float10% of overall scoreMulti-core13,535.53 Mops/s13,535.53 million work units/sec20,5830.51 seconds53542069875724
Single-core4,036.81 Mops/s4,036.81 million work units/sec6,1390.51 seconds64912821646738
CompressionLZ77 match finder, 4 MiB corpus10% of overall scoreMulti-core465.79 MB/s465.79 million work units/sec6,9110.54 seconds154100798680
Single-core137.94 MB/s137.94 million work units/sec2,0470.55 seconds18130239604
EncryptionChaCha20, 20 rounds, 1 MiB10% of overall scoreMulti-core507.58 MB/s507.58 million work units/sec12,5020.5 seconds61411104777592
Single-core157.41 MB/s157.41 million work units/sec3,8770.51 seconds771466673134
Physics512-body direct-sum gravity10% of overall scoreMulti-core26.18 Mpair/s26.18 million work units/sec4150.52 seconds134122772879306046388
Single-core9.7 Mpair/s9.7 million work units/sec1540.51 seconds1914637077023893759085
Sortingheapsort, 1M uint3210% of overall scoreMulti-core81.88 Mkey-cmp/s81.88 million work units/sec2,2561.02 seconds1417626240643839807060
Single-core53.48 Mkey-cmp/s53.48 million work units/sec1,4730.78 seconds210
Memory Latencydependent-load pointer chase, 16 MiB0% of overall scoreMulti-core428.14 ns/access9.34 million work units/sec1,1830.43 seconds1440647304
Single-core354.15 ns/access2.82 million work units/sec3570.71 seconds215666448
Memory BandwidthSTREAM triad, 12 MiB working set per thread10% of overall scoreMulti-core1,294.81 MB/s1,294.81 million work units/sec4,0460.62 seconds1644262482432
Single-core934.48 MB/s934.48 million work units/sec2,9200.5 seconds3711061332688