ARM On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Battling Intel x86?

The simple SciMark C-based benchmarks were mixed.

The video encoding with libvpx and x264 still could be better optimized on ARM.

Overall, these results from running the ARM version of Ubuntu 12.04 are very hopeful for the future of ARM Linux on ARM devices and the future of ARM hardware itself. The dual-core Cortex-A9 1.2GHz on the TI OMAP4460 with the PandaBoard ES is mostly comparable to the first-generation Intel Atom N270 in terms of raw performance. On the power consumption front, ARM wins. It will be very interesting to watch this space. Coming up soon on Phoronix will also be benchmarks of the quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 ARM hardware to see how that battles Intel x86 on Linux.