I wish to complain about the 2B as my coffee consumption is taking a hit because you’ve made it too fast. I used to be able to brew 20fl.oz. of coffee in the time it took to compile GnuCOBOL as it’s normally take about 16 to 18 minutes to rebuild from scratch & perform all the unittests Now it takes between about 5 minutes. and even less if i only do recheck of the unittests. That really isn’t enough time to a fresh coffee and i haven’t been able to make a sandwich to go with it in days.

PLEASE make all future models much slower please. my caffeine levels are plummetting

Thank you. I am nearly mended…

Scratch benchmarks are not so optimistic. Some tests even run slower than on ModelB. See
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=94858&start=25

From there:
Results, the smaller the numbers the better; left is B, right is 2B

move2 16.5 –> 13.7
rotate_say 9.3 –> 6.7

pingpong 8.4 –> 11.2
pingpong_remote 8.4 –>12.1

Strange. On one side there are 17 to 28% improvement; on other tests it runs 33 to 44% slower.

Transcoding Skinny Puppy’s “Pro-Test”, 360×270 Quicktime .MOV, 256kbps MP3, to same resolution MP4 at CRF 26, 96kbps, using avconv:

Raspberry Pi 1 (1x 700MHz ARMv6, 512MB RAM, Raspbian Wheezy): Average 1 frame per second. 18 mins to complete.

Raspberry Pi 2 (4x 900MHz ARMv7, 1GB RAM, Raspbian Wheezy): 28 FPS, 4 min 9 secs to complete –

Intel Celeron dual-core (2x 2.5GHz 686, 2GB RAM, Ubuntu Precise): 114 FPS, 1 min 3 secs

This has interesting ramifications for the Foundation’s stop-frame animation tutorial I’m planning for Cotswold Raspberry Jam (next event probably Sat 18 April). When my daughter Annabel did the stop-frame tutorial at Pycon, time limitations of the Jam required her to use Ben’s Intel laptop to render the .JPG frames into a video file, because the Pi 1 would take about 2 minutes per frame to render – it wouldn’t have been finished by the time the Jam finished. With the Pi 2’s performance, it looks like this will be practical to render on the Pi 2 itself, live during the event.

This is really a desktop machine now .. just amazing! the browser is so usable …
I ran the wolfram mark system comparison …had some licensing issues at first but then rebooted and it finally worked .. this is from the jan 2015 raspian distro..
raspberrypi2 0.05
Linux ARM (32-bit)

ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l) 0.01
Linux ARM (32-bit)

=== WolframMark Detailed Timings ===

Total Test 1 Test 2 \

> Test 3 Test 4 Test 5 Test 6 Test 7 Test 8 Test 9 Test 10 \

> Test 11 Test 12 Test 13 Test 14 Test 15

Intel Core i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 cores)
Linux x86 (64-bit) 7.3 0.38 0.31 \

> 0.48 0.42 0.62 0.41 0.40 0.68 0.40 0.75 \

> 0.64 0.09 0.85 0.45 0.45

3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5
Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) 7.4 0.61 0.36 \

> 0.28 0.45 0.30 0.47 0.43 0.99 0.29 0.67 \

> 0.69 0.09 0.89 0.43 0.42

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3550 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Microsoft Windows (64-bit) 8.3 0.47 0.34 \

> 0.48 0.53 0.80 0.45 0.47 0.63 0.44 0.86 \

> 0.69 0.11 1.00 0.55 0.53

2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) 11.5 0.84 0.47 \

> 0.49 0.68 0.83 0.58 0.53 1.64 0.73 0.82 \

> 0.92 0.12 1.20 0.88 0.75

3.07 GHz Core i7-950 (8 Cores)
Windows 7 Pro (64-bit) Desktop 13.8 0.80 0.98 \

> 1.00 0.80 0.84 1.00 0.98 1.00 0.78 1.06 \

> 0.95 0.89 0.97 0.92 0.86

2.93 GHz Core i7-940 (8 Cores)
Linux Ubuntu (64-bit) Desktop 15.6 0.94 0.99 \

> 1.14 0.92 0.80 0.81 0.88 1.51 0.89 1.31 \

> 1.16 1.14 1.41 0.89 0.86

Intel Core i7 CPU
Microsoft Windows (64-bit) 16.5 0.93 0.72 \

> 0.68 1.23 1.44 0.89 0.85 1.02 1.40 1.33 \

> 1.58 0.15 1.44 1.47 1.33

2 × 2.26 GHz Quad Core Xeon E5520 (8 Cores)
Mac XServe OS X (64-bit) Server 20.1 1.06 1.22 \

> 1.44 1.00 1.67 1.05 1.12 1.71 0.67 2.79 \

> 1.32 1.22 1.76 0.94 1.08

2.80 GHz Core 2 Duo Mobile T9600 (2 Cores)
Windows 7 Pro (64-bit) Laptop 20.7 1.12 1.20 \

> 1.90 1.06 2.04 1.17 1.15 1.61 1.53 1.61 \

> 1.19 1.06 1.22 1.25 1.56

2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo Mobile T8300 (2 Cores)
MacBook OS X Snow Leopard (64-bit) Laptop 29.8 1.78 1.40 \

> 2.44 1.40 3.03 1.13 1.22 2.20 2.35 2.31 \

> 1.63 1.57 2.06 2.86 2.38

2.60 GHz Core 2 Duo Mobile T7800 (2 Cores)
Windows XP Pro (32-bit) Laptop 31.8 1.27 1.80 \

> 2.59 1.44 3.69 1.92 2.06 2.41 3.25 1.91 \

> 1.45 1.41 1.34 2.52 2.72

2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo E6400 (2 Cores)
Windows Vista (32-bit) Server 38.1 2.49 2.18 \

> 3.39 1.75 3.18 2.35 2.54 2.92 3.28 2.52 \

> 2.33 1.65 1.78 3.12 2.60

1.6 GHz Core 2 Duo Mobile L7500 (2 Cores)
Windows 7 Pro (32-bit) Laptop 43.8 2.17 2.75 \

> 3.74 2.26 4.23 2.90 3.14 3.46 3.42 2.73 \

> 2.48 1.92 2.11 3.39 3.12

2 × 2.00 GHz G5 PowerPC (2 Cores)
Mac OS X (32-bit) Desktop 100.9 4.61 4.64 \

> 10.91 4.94 19.50 5.16 5.01 5.70 5.21 7.17 \

> 3.33 4.87 4.28 9.74 5.84

raspberrypi2
Linux ARM (32-bit) 307.6 14.04 5.43 \

> 35.62 25.71 26.06 7.19 7.65 6.89 55.10 8.58 \

> 13.40 0.99 9.53 44.82 46.55

ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l)
Linux ARM (32-bit) 3011.0 31.84 15.55 \

> 84.43 144.50 183.10 16.49 20.02 28.88 1165.00 37.60 \

> 36.45 4.70 25.73 444.20 772.60

(Timings are CPU time in seconds)
just amazing the difference ..

Since some people have stated that this new version of the Pi migh be adequate as a replacement for a desktop system for those who can’t afford one it would be interesting to see a comparison (as crazy as that might appear) between the Pi2 and say a Pentium 4, C2D, Core Quad, both in benchmarks and real life usage (word processing, spreadsheets, photo editing) – no expectations here, just curiosity. I’d do the comparisons myself, but I don’t have a Core Quad based Pc. And it’ll be long before I get a Pi2 (unless someone wants to donate lne to science

Very preliminary results from last night showed that compiling FFTW3 on a PI2 with and without the NEON SIMD extension produced a 25% improvement in FFT speed. Tests agains PI1 this evening.

Compiling OpenCV 2.4.10 in 34 minutes on the Pi2 is quite an improvement compared to 10 hours on the Pi1 .

Would love to see benchmark from http://octane-benchmark.googlecode.com/svn/latest/index.html

Not really a benchmark, but OpenArena runs at a solid 60 fps on the new pi! Tremulous 1.0.2 too! Haven’t tried Quake3 yet but it should also play smooth as butter.
View in 1080p60 or 720p60 for best experience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJB64gn6Mo

Any power consumption comparrisons? Although completing tasks quicker probably requires more intense power consumption, is it more efficient overall? Has anyone pointed a thermal camera at Pi2?

Has anyone compared JVM performance between the two? In theory, the 4-cores should make a _huge_ difference in garbage collection performance if you use one of the concurrent collectors like G1.

(Does the JVM even run on the pi 2?)

Completely unscientific so far (playing around while i should have been getting ready for work this morning)…

Dosbox compiled with dynamic core for B+: Struggles to play wolfenstien 3D smoothly (286/early 386 era)

Dosbox compiled with dynamic core for 2B with neon: Wolf3d is smooth as butter and descent (late 486 era) has a reasonable frame rate.

Can’t wait to test more over the weekend

2B or Not 2B. that is the question :P

Hackaday also just published bunch of benchmarks:
http://hackaday.com/2015/02/05/benchmarking-the-raspberry-pi-2/

I’m still waiting. It’s expected next monday.

So the only benchmarking I can do is comparing how long it took to get an original Pi versus how long it’s taking to get a Pi 2. So far the Pi2 is about 12x faster at getting from launch to my front door. Impressive improvement

I am noticing a big difference on emulation like the Amiga and Super Nintendo. Now they run smooth and there is not a stutter in sight. This is great work for anyone who wants to make a gaming cab and what a small form factor with low power.

Our STEM club were well chuffed with the Pi, and set up a quick, if arbitrary benchmark within minecraft using 5x5x5 cube of TNT. We recorded a youtube video of a Pi2 and a B+ side by side.
Result: The Pi B+ is roughly twice as fast to calculate the effect of the explosion of the TNT block!

https://purbeckstem.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/benchmarking-the-pi-2-with-explosions/

Maybe I am overlooking something. But no one in the tests above (at least the video render or minecraft) examples say what kind of storrage is attached.

I hope all those tests use card which habe been checked with a benching tool verifying identical read / write speeds.

I would be interested in comparisons with classic mainframes/supercomputers/workstations:

How does the Raspi 2 compare to a Cray 2? Vax 11/780? SGI Origin (or O2)? Sparcstation 20?

I would like to see the I/O system benchmarked. How limited is the combined USB-Ethernet bus?

Early benchmarks
1) On the hard drive side, running hdparm -t /dev/sda1, and getting almost exactly 30MB/s or 240Mb/s !!!
2) On the network side, the internal 100Mb/s Ethernet has already maxed out at greater than 90Mb/s speeds.

Benchmarks that I would like to see:

One way bandwidth
1) dd a large file on a fast USB flash drive, to /dev/null, and time it.
2) Connect a USB Gigabit LAN adapter to the RPi2, and connect the LAN to a PC. Run iperf on both the PC and RPi2.

Throughput
1) dd a file on a fast USB flash drive, to another fast flash drive.
2) Install 2 USB Gigabit LAN adapters on the RPi2, and setup a network bridge between them. Connect the LAN to two PCs, and run iperf on both PCs.
3) Setup a Samba share using a fast USB flash drive through a USB Gigabit LAN adapter.

The Einstein@Home benchmarks are a bit confusing and/or disappointing. The Pi 2 comes up only a tad faster than the Pi 1 (basically about the ratio of the clock frequencies). This could be because they are per-core benchmarks, in which case I should get 4+ times the throughput in the long run, or it could be because the cores are sharing the integer and floating poiint units (which would seem a bit pointless). I haven’t yet done enough E@H work on the Pi 2 to get a throughput score. It will take a day or two. I’ll post an update when the picture is clearer.

Is it possible to overclock Raspberry Pi 2? How much range could I got to overclock it? I’ve a RPi 1B and I overclocks it to 800MHz.

Hi,
I tried a very unscientific test of running my version of Life. It calculates an area of 704 X 450 and wraps at the edges, I did a timing run for 9000 generations.
Both Pies were set to the came cpu, core and clock speeds, with no X running, and as far as I’m aware only a single CPU was used on the Pi 2.
On a Raspberry Pi B it completes 9000 generations in 20 seconds.
On a Raspberry Pi 2 it completes 9000 generations in 7 seconds!
This seems surprisingly good as it’s exactly the same code, which I had optimised as much as I could, with exactly the same CPU frequencies, I can only think that because of the larger internal cache, the whole of the program plus array storage can fit in the Pi 2 cache and it couldn’t in the Pi B. Obviously it still has to slow down to do the screen updates, which presumably will have to be in main memory.
While I’m on the subject, I used ‘cc -O2 life.c’ to compile this, can anyone tell me if there are any better options I can use for the Pi 2 as it’s an ARM 7?
Thanks, Kevin Moore.

has anyone done a test with openssl? the command is

$ openssl speed

I did a quick and dirty test and it only seemed to use one core. Is it compiled with multithreaded options?

Guys – I have very slow video playback (tested on Buck Bunny 1080p) on rpi2 using both openelec and OSMC. About 10 fps with acceleration on (cores about 10-15% of load and 0% of vpu), when I switch off acceleration fps drops even lower (more cpu usage, and no vpu load). Any ideas?

Did a benchmark of the rupy cometstream and 6x it is. Almost the same performance as an old atom or a new NUC, but per watt it dominates!

https://code.google.com/p/rupy/wiki/CometStream

I would have jumped at getting one already, but it’s just a small bored with everything on it, and i don’t have the tools needed to make a casing for it, i wish i did.. but i don’t.
REALLY wish i had a 3D printer.

I’ll probably get laughed off the comments for posting this (because it’s not exactly a benchmark) but I remember Fibrelamp on xscreensaver when the Pi launched – probably one frame every 3 seconds; it’s performance gradually increased with all the hard work you guys did with code / OS optimisation over the R-Pi-1 era. It will come as no surprise to hear it’s all Kerry Gold in the frame-rate department on R-Pi-2. :-)

Seriously though, the Raspberry Pi 2 is *utterly butterly* – this machine is a game changer for you and Planet Earth and I just know that you’re going to sell zillions of them! :-) I can’t wait to see how it evolves in hard/soft-ware over time … congratulations to everyone on the R-Pi team! :-)

Got my Pi2 on Saturday and did this test:
1) Created a simple python script to calculate the first 50 Fibonacci numbers. I do this 1000 times and then print out the average duration of the 50 calculations.
2) I then loaded this script onto my B+ and my Pi2
3) Opened up 4 SSH shells into each of the above RPIs and launched the script from the command line
4) Observed that the B+ calculation time got slower and slower as I added SSH sessions while the Pi2 seemed unaffected.
5) Final values: B+ .00844, Pi2 .00138 -> 4:53:1 performance improvement for the Pi2.
6) Note that when I added a fifth SSH session to the Pi2 and ran the script, the timings finally took a hit. So I think it’s safe to say that those four cores make a difference.

Way to go, guys!

I’ve posted a detailed comment on the forum about the performance improvement I noticed when using a testbench for an in-memory database – see http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=689575#p689575. Basically, without any recompilation or over-clocking, I saw 4-fold performance improvement for single-threaded sets, and 6 to 8 times better when using multiple connections to the server.

Anyone cares to run a quick and dirty bc benchmark
time echo "scale=5000; a(1)*4" | bc -l"
for the delight of the rest of us who don’t own a RPi 2 yet?

Well the CPU performance is nice: but I guess there is a problem with the GPIOs. Using file system IO access is approx 20 times slower than on my RPi1 models. And trying to access /dev/mem simply ends in a memory exception, The pigpio and other libraries show similar problems…

I ran a python script that converts a set of Excel spread sheets into an sqlite database (uses the xlrd and sqlite3 modules). Elapsed time:
Raspberry Pi : 211.7 seconds
Raspberry Pi2: 44.0 seconds
Core i5-2500K: 5.76 seconds

So the Pi2 was about 4.8x faster than the Pi, but there is still a big gap to the desktop computer. The two Pi’s were not using the same SD card, but I think most of the difference is CPU rather than ‘disk’ performance.
Python2 ran from the IDLE. No multi-threading in the script.

Here are a lot more benchmark results:

http://www.mikronauts.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-2-model-b-review/6/

They are part of my Raspberry Pi 2 Model B review (published last night)

Hi everyone,

Could somebody take timelapse photos of the Pi camera on the Raspberry Pi 2 model B and give me the smallest number between 2 shots without the delay? In Raspberry Pi 1 mode l B+, I need at least 1.7s between 2 continuous shots.

Here’s the command?

raspistill -tl 1.7 -t 60000 -o image%04d.jpg

You can change 1.7 to 1.0 or 0.5

Thank you very much,

Best regards,
cunbong

I ran some more benchmarks.

Raspberry Pi 2: Raspbian vs. Linaro (ARMv6 vs ARMv7)
http://www.mikronauts.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-2-raspbian-vs-linero-armv6-vs-armv7/

Here is the “Geekbench 2 for ARM” results comparison for the Raspberry Pi 2 vs HummingBoard-i2eX

http://erdur.org/benchmark/rpi2-vs-i2ex.png

my experience over model B+ and pi 2
i’ve used B+ before with my sdl2 program :
animation , bunch of texture and other think
B+ work well :5 to 7 fps quite good for me and my application.
Model pi 2 coming with a lot of improvement
so i think with pi 2 my program get well.
WRONG
the same program run quite 7 times slow
i’ve noticed that program slow
with function that have to move lot memory
like
SDL_RenderCopy
on the other side SDL_SetRenderDrawColor running faster
but i use lot of first function
question is how i run my program at least at same speed of previous B+
ps with overclock run little bit faster but not so much
advice and comment are welcome
(forgive my english)

When gzipping a file, I found the Pi 2 to be 3 times as fast as the Pi 1 (single-core), and about 8.3 times as fast using 4 cores.

When computing checksums of large files, the Pi2 is again 3 times faster than the Pi1, and over 15 times faster using 4 cores.

Results here http://unixetc.co.uk/2015/03/01/some-raspberry-pi-2-benchmarks/

It would be nice to have some kind of standard benchmark for testing SD and microSD cards inside the Raspberry Pi itself. There are many methods around the net… we need a standard one so we can compare.

Has anyone run RISCOS Pi on the Raspberry Pi 2? I’d like to know what people think of it, vs. that OS running on the Raspberry Pi 1. How much more responsive is desktop performance (window moves as well as resizing, opening/closing, etc.) and other aspects, including Web Browsing?