I quite like performant systems - lots of CPU, memory and storage. When I want to compare overall performance between systems then I usually run a build of the raspberrypi4_64 image when using buildroot
Today I am comparing three systems. One is an AMD 5950X with 128GB RAM and 2TB Samsung 980 Pro, the next an older Corsair One with an Intel i7-8700K, 32GB RAM and a 512GB PCIe v3.0 NVMe and finally an Azure VM, Standard D2s v3 (2 vcpus, 8 GiB memory) with 64GB of Standard SSD.
The OS on them is Ubuntu/Debian. On the AMD it’s Ubuntu 22.04LTS under WSL2 in Windows 11, the Intel has a native installation of Debian 12 and the Azure VM is running Ubuntu 20.04LTS.
To start you need to install the build tools. This can be done running:
sudo apt install build-essential git zip
Then you can clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot cd buildroot
To rule out internet connection speed for downloading the source code there is a make command you can run to download all the code, we first have to define which config we want to use and after set off the build:
make raspberrypi4_64_defconfig make source time make
And here are the results:
| Build | Environment Time |
|---|---|
| AMD 5950X WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | 13m 29.210s |
| Intel i7-8700K Debian 12 Native | 25m 43.889s |
| Azure 2 Core Ubuntu 20.04 LTS VM | Over 3 hours |
| Carbon X1 i7-1260P WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | 67m 21.465s |
| Carbon X1 i5-6300 Fedora Core 39 | 98m 54.598s |
| Proxmox Ubuntu VM 32 Core and 128GB RAM | 44m 18.523s |
Build times
Extra cores and a more modern NVMe put the AMD in the lead. Azure is way behind with the smaller VM and lower IOPS. Anyway, it is comparison tool you might want to use.