Tensilica Tops EEMBC OA Benchmark

The Xtensa LX configurable processor posted the highest score ever recorded for a licensable processor core, and the highest absolute score ever published for any processor, on the Office Automation benchmark suite of the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC). The EEMBC benchmark scores, independently certified by the EEMBC Certification Laboratories (ECL), confirm that the Xtensa LX processor is nearly four times faster than the much larger PowerPC 440GX core, and more than 4 times as powerful as the 64-bit MIPS 20Kc processor.

The certified EEMBC OAmark scores are:
· 4.19523 – Optimized Xtensa LX processor
· 1.07999 – Out-of-the-box PowerPC 440GX processor
· 0.98880 – Out-of-the-box Xtensa LX processor
· 0.89033 – Out-of-the-box MIPS 20Kc processor
. 0.75975 – Out of the box ARM 1026EJ-S processor

For more detail, see http://www.tensilica.com/html/pr_2005_03_28.html .