ExaGear Launches For x86 Windows/Linux Apps On ARM

[pUnK]

Thanks. The page you link mentions GeoBenchmark which apart from IO stuff only contains FP benchmarks (unless I missed something). Would you have some number for pure integer benchmarks? Something like nbench would be nice

Ok. We will try nbench and publish result as soon as get it.

[artivision]

Ok. We will try nbench and publish result as soon as get it.

Emulation is not important for programs because free and quality software is there for all platforms. Is only important for games that are mainly art and possibly irreplaceable. Todays ARM socs are not graphically powerful to run pc games, but after some months will be. Nvidia for example has shown dual core, ARM compatible, 7-issue and 2.5ghz CPU, plus a Kepler 375Gflops GPU for smartphones. Knowing Nvidia, half the cores are 64bit so equals with 550Gflops and the FMA makes the card to behave like 850Gflps vs MADD GPUs, so tessellation for sure. I don't want to praise Nvidia but i give a powerful ARM example. So you must prove today some GPU passtrough and not OGL passtrough, because we may want to use Nouveau with Nine for example. Also eventually you must drop prices, because inside 2015 the only ones that they will need emulators are the poor that cannot buy multiple platforms.

[ldesnogu]

Ok. We will try nbench and publish result as soon as get it.

Thanks a lot for looking into it

[pUnK]

Thanks. The page you link mentions GeoBenchmark which apart from IO stuff only contains FP benchmarks (unless I missed something). Would you have some number for pure integer benchmarks? Something like nbench would be nice

We updated ExaGear Desktop page

http://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/

with nbench results.

[ldesnogu]

We updated ExaGear Desktop page

http://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/

with nbench results.

Again thanks a lot! The nbench results are very interesting. ExaGear indeed looks fast.

Funny to see how "String sort" is faster than native :-) What ARM compiler did you use?

[pUnK]

Funny to see how "String sort" is faster than native :-) What ARM compiler did you use?

We used gcc 4.6.3 for x86 and 4.7.3 for ARM for this measuring.
Regarding "string sort". We saw this picture on several benchmark compiled the same version of gcc. This mean that if you have the same version of gcc for ARM and x86 it does not mean that is the exactly the same compiler with equal sets of optimizations.

[pUnK]

Eltechs today launched new version of ExaGear Desktop - software that allow to run x86 apps on ARM.

The main change is support all models of Raspberry Pi devices and support a couple of new guest images including Ubuntu 14.04, Debian and Raspbian.

Also we hard worked on improving performance and now even more performance available with new version of ExaGear Desktop.