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FOSSbench

Individual benchmark run

Arm Cortex-A72

QEMU Virtual Machine · tested Jul 21, 2026, 5:04 PM · uploaded by @lethaltail

In Review · not yet included in the processor average

C score6,203ASM score: 3,770

System information

Processor
Arm Cortex-A72
Computer model
QEMU Virtual Machine
Architecture
ARM64
Physical cores reported by run
8
Hardware threads reported by run
8
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
0.4.0
Total test time
1 min 40 sec

Score summary

C multi-core6,203
C single-core2,226
ASM multi-core3,770
ASM single-core1,268

Test environment

Background monitoring
Available
Average background CPU use
0.4%
Peak background CPU use
0.7%
Available memory before test
806 MB
Running processes
148
Activity sample duration
10 seconds

Individual workload results

WorkloadRunMeasured performanceRaw throughputScoreElapsedIterationsThreadsChecksum
Native Integer Mathcommon 32-bit multiply/add/rotate mix10% of overall scoreMulti-core11,323.24 Mops/s11,323.24 million work units/sec36,6920.54 seconds476824959431808
Single-core3,511.51 Mops/s3,511.51 million work units/sec11,3790.53 seconds1,15514084425898
Wide Integer Math64-bit ALU: madd, umulh, udiv, bitops10% of overall scoreMulti-core16,616.28 Mops/s16,616.28 million work units/sec53,8440.51 seconds44287566854871578352704
Single-core4,227.76 Mops/s4,227.76 million work units/sec13,7000.5 seconds883110551731569440223275
Floating Point Mathdouble: fmadd, fdiv, fsqrt10% of overall scoreMulti-core314.34 Mops/s314.34 million work units/sec1,8691.02 seconds20886836196585718256
Single-core112.09 Mops/s112.09 million work units/sec6660.55 seconds3114622540543000602686
Prime Numberssieve of Eratosthenes to 2M10% of overall scoreMulti-core264.84 Mcand/s264.84 million work units/sec3,2620.42 seconds788340248
Single-core123.4 Mcand/s123.4 million work units/sec1,5200.53 seconds3314914789
Extended InstructionsNEON ASIMD: 128-bit integer + float10% of overall scoreMulti-core13,484.26 Mops/s13,484.26 million work units/sec20,5050.49 seconds256823110480336
Single-core3,933.42 Mops/s3,933.42 million work units/sec5,9810.48 seconds59012197332415
CompressionLZ77 match finder, 4 MiB corpus10% of overall scoreMulti-core514.85 MB/s514.85 million work units/sec7,6390.52 seconds88107518592
Single-core135.87 MB/s135.87 million work units/sec2,0160.52 seconds17128559626
EncryptionChaCha20, 20 rounds, 1 MiB10% of overall scoreMulti-core306.11 MB/s306.11 million work units/sec7,5400.63 seconds23823135472392
Single-core96.44 MB/s96.44 million work units/sec2,3750.54 seconds5013278901510
Physics512-body direct-sum gravity10% of overall scoreMulti-core25.98 Mpair/s25.98 million work units/sec4120.56 seconds78193822376374405968
Single-core9.62 Mpair/s9.62 million work units/sec1530.49 seconds1814638628058546180189
Sortingheapsort, 1M uint3210% of overall scoreMulti-core114.65 Mkey-cmp/s114.65 million work units/sec3,1581.46 seconds1816805737213970062504
Single-core54.4 Mkey-cmp/s54.4 million work units/sec1,4990.77 seconds210
Memory Latencydependent-load pointer chase, 16 MiB0% of overall scoreMulti-core671.63 ns/access11.91 million work units/sec1,5080.67 seconds1883897328
Single-core308.37 ns/access3.24 million work units/sec4100.62 seconds215666448
Memory BandwidthSTREAM triad, 12 MiB working set per thread10% of overall scoreMulti-core1,460.02 MB/s1,460.02 million work units/sec4,5631.1 seconds1688524964864
Single-core926.19 MB/s926.19 million work units/sec2,8940.53 seconds3911070718456