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Router CPU performance
A few tests of CPU speeds of various routers
Test used
The simple MD5 CPU performance test, on routers:
time sh -c 'dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 | md5sum'
Used this way because OpenWRT/LEDE's provided ”dd” does not show MB/sec values on its own. Divide 100 MB by elapsed time in seconds as returned by “time”, result is speed in MB/sec.
On faster devices with a full OS (for reference):
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=500 | md5sum
Results
| Vendor | Model | SoC/CPU | Cores* | OS | MB/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TP-Link | TL-WR741ND v1.9 | Atheros AR7240 rev 2 | 1 | OpenWRT 18.06 | 5.6 |
| TP-Link | TL-WR741ND v1.9 | Atheros AR7240 rev 2 | 1 | LEDE 17.01.5 | 6.0 |
| TP-Link | TL-WR842ND v1 | Atheros AR7241 rev 1 | 1 | LEDE 17.01.6 | 6.0 |
| TP-Link | TL-WR1043ND v1 | Atheros AR9132 rev 2 | 1 | LEDE 17.01.7 | 7.1 |
| TP-Link | TL-WR841N v7 | Atheros AR7241 rev 1 | 1 | OpenWRT 15.05 | 7.9 |
| TP-Link | TL-WR841N v8 | Atheros AR9341 rev 3 | 1 | LEDE 17.01.4 | 11.4 |
| TP-Link | TL-WR941ND v5 | Atheros AR9341 rev 3 | 1 | LEDE 17.01.7 | 11.7 |
| Netgear | WNDR3700 | Atheros AR7161 rev 2 | 1 | LEDE 17.01.6 | 11.9 |
| TP-Link | TL-WR841N v8 | Atheros AR9341 rev 1 | 1 | OpenWRT 15.05 | 12.6 |
| TP-Link | TL-WDR4310 | Atheros AR9344 rev 2 | 1 | LEDE 17.01.4 | 13.3 |
| For reference | |||||
| D-Link | DNS-323 | Marvell Orion 88F5182 | 1 | Debian 7 w/Linux 3.2 | 22 |
| Raspberry Pi | 1 | Broadcom BCM2835 | 1 | Raspbian w/Linux 4.9.35 | 35 |
| Lemote | Yeeloong | Loongson 2F | 1 | Debian 8 w/Linux 4.14.149 | 37 |
| Mele | A2000 | Allwinner A10 | 1 | Debian 7 w/Linux 3.4 | 75 |
| Cubieboard | 2 | Allwinner A20 | 2 | Debian 8 w/Linux 3.4 | 75 |
| Raspberry Pi | 2 | Broadcom BCM2709 | 4 | Debian 8 w/Linux 3.18 | 79 |
| Fujitsu | Futro S900 | AMD G-T44R | 1 | Debian 9 w/Linux 4.14.44 | 138 |
| Foxconn | AHD1S-K | AMD E-350 | 2 | Debian 8 w/Linux 4.14.7 | 197 |
* the dd+md5sum test does not use more than 2 cores.
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