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Individual benchmark run

Arm Cortex-A72

QEMU Virtual Machine · tested Jul 21, 2026, 4:02 PM · uploaded by @lethaltail

In Review · not yet included in the processor average

C score1,940ASM score: 1,245

System information

Processor
Arm Cortex-A72
Computer model
QEMU Virtual Machine
Architecture
ARM64
Physical cores reported by run
1
Hardware threads reported by run
1
L1 cache
1 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
L3 cache
1 MB
Memory
955 MB
Operating system
Arch Linux ARM
Kernel
Linux 7.0.11-2-aarch64-ARCH
Compiler
GCC 16.1.1 20260430
FOSSbench version
0.4.0
Total test time
1 min 24 sec

Score summary

C multi-core1,940
C single-core1,945
ASM multi-core1,245
ASM single-core1,313

Test environment

Background monitoring
Available
Average background CPU use
1.2%
Peak background CPU use
2.9%
Available memory before test
830 MB
Running processes
92
Activity sample duration
10 seconds

Individual workload results

WorkloadRunMeasured performanceRaw throughputScoreElapsedIterationsThreadsChecksum
Native Integer Mathcommon 32-bit multiply/add/rotate mix10% of overall scoreMulti-core4,567.77 Mops/s4,567.77 million work units/sec14,8020.45 seconds1,2891934523089
Single-core4,574.54 Mops/s4,574.54 million work units/sec14,8240.45 seconds1,2891934523089
Wide Integer Math64-bit ALU: madd, umulh, udiv, bitops10% of overall scoreMulti-core4,433.13 Mops/s4,433.13 million work units/sec14,3650.52 seconds9541488622073261592033
Single-core4,446.31 Mops/s4,446.31 million work units/sec14,4080.53 seconds97517518727172540508056
Floating Point Mathdouble: fmadd, fdiv, fsqrt10% of overall scoreMulti-core115.33 Mops/s115.33 million work units/sec6860.54 seconds3114622540543000602686
Single-core114.76 Mops/s114.76 million work units/sec6820.54 seconds3114622540543000602686
Prime Numberssieve of Eratosthenes to 2M10% of overall scoreMulti-core93.81 Mcand/s93.81 million work units/sec1,1550.51 seconds2413574392
Single-core96.61 Mcand/s96.61 million work units/sec1,1900.52 seconds2513723325
Extended InstructionsNEON ASIMD: 128-bit integer + float10% of overall scoreMulti-core4,570.88 Mops/s4,570.88 million work units/sec6,9510.45 seconds64912821646738
Single-core4,479.03 Mops/s4,479.03 million work units/sec6,8110.46 seconds64912821646738
CompressionLZ77 match finder, 4 MiB corpus10% of overall scoreMulti-core100.71 MB/s100.71 million work units/sec1,4940.58 seconds14123519692
Single-core99.68 MB/s99.68 million work units/sec1,4790.59 seconds14123519692
EncryptionChaCha20, 20 rounds, 1 MiB10% of overall scoreMulti-core155.6 MB/s155.6 million work units/sec3,8330.51 seconds7511043552985
Single-core152.36 MB/s152.36 million work units/sec3,7530.54 seconds7911031679770
Physics512-body direct-sum gravity10% of overall scoreMulti-core8.41 Mpair/s8.41 million work units/sec1330.5 seconds1614640495910800819938
Single-core8.48 Mpair/s8.48 million work units/sec1340.56 seconds1814638628058546180193
Sortingheapsort, 1M uint3210% of overall scoreMulti-core18.63 Mkey-cmp/s18.63 million work units/sec5131.13 seconds114406560160959951765
Single-core19.25 Mkey-cmp/s19.25 million work units/sec5301.09 seconds114406560160959951765
Memory Latencydependent-load pointer chase, 16 MiB0% of overall scoreMulti-core69.06 ns/access14.48 million work units/sec1,8330.55 seconds813098456
Single-core68.7 ns/access14.56 million work units/sec1,8420.55 seconds813098456
Memory BandwidthSTREAM triad, 12 MiB working set per thread10% of overall scoreMulti-core526.96 MB/s526.96 million work units/sec1,6470.6 seconds2511069437960
Single-core530.49 MB/s530.49 million work units/sec1,6580.59 seconds2511069437960