It is interesting to compare the new TI arms with current Intel atoms
Here is previous benchmarks on ubuntu
The dual-core Cortex-A9 1.2GHz on the TI OMAP4460 with the PandaBoard ES is mostly comparable to the first-generation Intel Atom N270 in terms of raw performance.
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