@dylanlesterpvcs, Thanks for posting the benchmarks.
I did a totally unfair comparison with my Thinkpad T450s laptop (2-core/4-thread Core CPU), and the Librem 5 doesn’t do that bad in the comparison, when we consider the differences in power consumption and the cost of the processors.
| Benchmark | 4x 2.7GHz Core i5-5200U | Librem 5 (4x 1.5GHz Cortex-A53) | Times better |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU Blowfish | 4.94 | 8.81 | 1.8x |
| CPU CryptoHash | 432.63 | 105.57 | 4.1x |
| CPU Fibonacci | 0.82 | 3.36 | 4.1x |
| CPU N-Queens | 7.01 | 5.31 | 1.3x |
| CPU Zlib | 0.47 | 0.18 | 2.6x |
| FPU FFT | 2.10 | 9.86 | 4.7x |
| FPU Raytracing | 2.10 | 5.08 | 2.4x |