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Individual benchmark run

Arm Cortex-A72

QEMU Virtual Machine · tested Jul 21, 2026, 3:57 PM · uploaded by @lethaltail

In Review · not yet included in the processor average

C score5,167ASM score: 3,671

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
GCC 16.1.1 20260430
FOSSbench version
0.4.0
Total test time
2 min 6 sec

Score summary

C multi-core5,167
C single-core2,027
ASM multi-core3,671
ASM single-core1,358

Test environment

Background monitoring
Available
Average background CPU use
0.4%
Peak background CPU use
0.6%
Available memory before test
784 MB
Running processes
144
Activity sample duration
10 seconds

Individual workload results

WorkloadRunMeasured performanceRaw throughputScoreElapsedIterationsThreadsChecksum
Native Integer Mathcommon 32-bit multiply/add/rotate mix10% of overall scoreMulti-core20,145.05 Mops/s20,145.05 million work units/sec65,2790.5 seconds791826775692912
Single-core4,506.47 Mops/s4,506.47 million work units/sec14,6030.46 seconds1,2891934523089
Wide Integer Math64-bit ALU: madd, umulh, udiv, bitops10% of overall scoreMulti-core19,565.82 Mops/s19,565.82 million work units/sec63,4020.44 seconds45381186244269399195968
Single-core4,422.43 Mops/s4,422.43 million work units/sec14,3310.52 seconds960112313018044745768124
Floating Point Mathdouble: fmadd, fdiv, fsqrt10% of overall scoreMulti-core308.21 Mops/s308.21 million work units/sec1,8321.04 seconds20886836196585718256
Single-core111.69 Mops/s111.69 million work units/sec6640.56 seconds3114622540543000602686
Prime Numberssieve of Eratosthenes to 2M10% of overall scoreMulti-core162.83 Mcand/s162.83 million work units/sec2,0050.39 seconds484765856
Single-core99.07 Mcand/s99.07 million work units/sec1,2200.52 seconds2613872258
Extended InstructionsNEON ASIMD: 128-bit integer + float10% of overall scoreMulti-core15,254.25 Mops/s15,254.25 million work units/sec23,1970.52 seconds3078668865192
Single-core4,482.93 Mops/s4,482.93 million work units/sec6,8170.46 seconds64912821646738
CompressionLZ77 match finder, 4 MiB corpus10% of overall scoreMulti-core345.19 MB/s345.19 million work units/sec5,1210.49 seconds5867199120
Single-core99.98 MB/s99.98 million work units/sec1,4830.59 seconds14123519692
EncryptionChaCha20, 20 rounds, 1 MiB10% of overall scoreMulti-core570.59 MB/s570.59 million work units/sec14,0540.47 seconds3285242819184
Single-core151.86 MB/s151.86 million work units/sec3,7400.5 seconds7212245997261
Physics512-body direct-sum gravity10% of overall scoreMulti-core23.42 Mpair/s23.42 million work units/sec3710.63 seconds78193822376374405968
Single-core9.22 Mpair/s9.22 million work units/sec1460.48 seconds1714639562088843140162
Sortingheapsort, 1M uint3210% of overall scoreMulti-core38.58 Mkey-cmp/s38.58 million work units/sec1,0634.35 seconds1816805737213970062504
Single-core13.37 Mkey-cmp/s13.37 million work units/sec3681.57 seconds114406560160959951765
Memory Latencydependent-load pointer chase, 16 MiB0% of overall scoreMulti-core783.59 ns/access10.21 million work units/sec1,2920.78 seconds1883897328
Single-core343.01 ns/access2.92 million work units/sec3690.69 seconds215666448
Memory BandwidthSTREAM triad, 12 MiB working set per thread10% of overall scoreMulti-core433.14 MB/s433.14 million work units/sec1,3543.72 seconds1688524964864
Single-core1,085.58 MB/s1,085.58 million work units/sec3,3920.5 seconds4311068684056