LeMaker Guitar Review

iperf 2.0.5 Client

Server was an 8 core 4Ghz AMD box on the same gigabit switch

Iperf (client) Type iperf iperf -w 128k
Raspberry Pi B+ 100Mbps 47.6 47.6
Raspberry Pi 2B 100Mbps 94.2 94.2
Raspberry Pi 2B USB Gige 178.0 176.0
Banana Pro 100Mbps 96.4 94.4
Banana Pro 1000Mbps 653.0 487.0
Banana Pro WiFi 30.1 28.1
MIPS CI20 100Mbps 27.5 27.7
MIPS CI20 WiFi 0.8 0.8
ODROID-C1 100Mbps 83.7 83.7
ODROID-C1 1000Mbps 386.0 355.0
ODROID XU4 100mbps 94.5 94.3
ODROID XU4 1000Mbps 878.0 862.0
LeMaker Guitar 1 100Mbps 81.7* 81.2*
LeMaker Guitar 1 USB Gige

LeMaker Guitar 2 100Mbps 80.0 79.6
LeMaker Guitar 2 USB Gige

Results shown are in megabits per second

The iperf client performance of the LeMaker Guitar with the on-board 10/100 Ethernet, was fairly poor, it only beat out the MIPS CI20.

iperf 2.0.5 Server

Client was an 8 core 4Ghz AMD box on the same gigabit switch

Iperf (server) Type iperf iperf -w 128k
Raspberry Pi 2B 100Mbps 94.3 94.3
Raspberry Pi 2B USB Gige 149.0 149.0
ODROID XU4 100mbps 94.1 94.1
ODROID XU4 1000Mbps 798.0 680.0
LeMaker Guitar 100Mbps 94.2 94.1*
LeMaker Guitar USB Gige

LeMaker Guitar 2 100Mbps 94.2 15.9
LeMaker Guitar 2 USB Gige

Results shown are in megabits per second

The Guitar iperf results suggest there is plenty of room for improvement with better drivers, especially for the iperf -w 128k result for iperf server.

I ran that test three times, and will re-run it when I get a new kernel, after which I will update this review.

Edit Nov.5/15: added more about test setup and poor iperf server result.

NBench 2.2.3

nbench Integer FP
Raspberry Pi B+ 11.55 3.88
Raspberry Pi 2B 19.80 8.49
MIPS CI20 18.08 3.88
Banana Pro 20.23 8.67
ODROID-C1 30.20 10.50
ODROID XU4 61.36 37.31
LeMaker Guitar 1 27.60 13.23
LeMaker Guitar 2 27.25 12.48

Results are an index relative to a Pentium 90 with 256KB L2 cache.

The Guitar did quite well in NBench –  a lot better than the Raspberry Pi 2 – but he XU4 dominated the field.

Unix Bench 5.1.3

Benchmark # cores Dhrystone Whetstone Hanoi
Raspberry Pi B+ 1 142.7 48.9 18790.9
Raspberry Pi 2B 1 253.8 90.1 34122.8
Raspberry Pi 2B 2 506.3 179.4 67640.2
Raspberry Pi 2B 4 1006.6 358.7 135452.7
MIPS CI20 1 197.8 58.6 23839.4
MIPS CI20 2 394.5 117.2 47674.7
Banana Pro 1 248.7 89.6 33920.3
Banana Pro 2 490.0 178.0 67205.1
ODROID-C1 1 348.4 113.9 40639.1
ODROID-C1 2 680.6 225.6 81299.3
ODROID-C1 4 1174.3 443.2 148415.5
ODROID XU4 1 1214.6 308.7 104051.9
ODROID XU4 2 2320.7 617.5 213558.5
ODROID XU4 4 3493.5 1099.1 324998.0
ODROID XU4 8 4883.1 1613.4 484718.5
LeMaker Guitar 1 1 338.8 144.8 56387.5
LeMaker Guitar 1 2 679.8 289.8 112693.5
LeMaker Guitar 1 4 1352.3 579.1 223892.0
LeMaker Guitar 2 1 317.1 121.2 57396.3
LeMaker Guitar 2 2 633.6 242.5 115033.9
LeMaker Guitar 2 4 1261.7 485.2 228973.5

Results are an index relative to a SPARCstation 20-61 (rated at 10.0)

The LeMaker Guitar beat the Raspberry Pi 2, ODROID C1 and others… and was in turn beat by the ODROID XU4.

Article Index

  1. Introduction
  2. A Closer Look at LeMaker Guitar & Base Board
  3. Feature Comparison
  4. Operating Systems, Software Compatibility
  5. Common Applications, WiFi, Bluetooth
  6. Hardware Compatibility
  7. More on Hardware Compatibility
  8. Benchmarks: Booting&Apps, Compiling Emacs, Sysbench
  9. Benchmarks: iperf client & server, NBench, UnixBench
  10. Benchmarks: hdparm, dd, Documentation, Support, Conclusion

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