Performance Benchmarking for ARM Mail 400 MP

Moore's Law Claims every two years, the performance should be doubled. so how to do it, if our ref device is ARM Mali ?

Should Touch below Items.

Use SPECviewperf or Any EEMBC Benchmarking Tools

UMP - Unified Memory Provider - For Zero Copy Operations in the Shared Resources tech

Interrupt handling from the Hardware Perspective

Pipeline Efficiency - Can we add 4 more pipes ?

Low Level Memory Management (Main Memory to Memory Card Memory)

Effective MMU Control

Optimization of Integration Driver with Android / Meego etc

Verify Is it Energy Efficient (Power Consumption)

Verify the Efficiency of the Fabric Interconnect

Performance of the Rendering Engine

Parallel rendering & Optimization in Large Data Visualization

Device Driver Optimization

Shader optimization (ex: size of Shaders)
review data structures used to create the frame-buffers
Size of Data sent to GPU (Ex: size of textures )
Check it uses new drivers ( has profiling tool attached)
Environmental conditions in the Lab such as
1.EMI (Electro magnetic Interference)
2.RFI (Radio Frequency Interference)
3.ESD (Electro Static Discharge)

Environment Conditions

Efficiency of the Interface between Geometry processor to Pixel Processor

CPU Load

And Touch these

- Multi threading

- UMA Unified Memory Access

- Efficiency of the Video Processors

- Surface representations and tessellation algorithms

Some Useful Links

http://www.eembc.org/

http://www.highperformancegraphics.org/cfp.php

http://www.linaro.org/careers/

http://electronicdesign.com/channels/test-and-measurement.aspx

http://www.windriver.com/products/test_management/

http://www.siggraph.org/s2010/

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1404439