ArmSoM Sige5 vs Radxa Dragon Q6A

Benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data

Specification
Basic Specifications
Price
RAM8GB6GB
SoC
Mali-G52 MC3
Qualcomm® Adreno 643
ArchitectureARMARM
CPU Cores
8 cores
4× Cortex-A72 @ 2.2GHz
4× Cortex-A53 @ 1.8GHz
8 cores
1× Cortex-A78 @ 2.7GHz
3× Cortex-A78 @ 2.4GHz
4× Cortex-A55 @ 1.9GHz

Legend

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ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)

CPU Performance

Processor performance across single and multi-core workloads

Geekbench 6

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
332
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
1,180
Multi-Core
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
1,440
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
3,215

7-Zip Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Single-Core Combined
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
1,796 MIPS
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
3,829 MIPS
Multi-Core Combined
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
11,391 MIPS
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
17,401 MIPS

High Performance Linpack

Higher Scores are Better

Performance
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
22.61 GFLOPS
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
38.66 GFLOPS
Performance/Watt
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
2.61 GFLOPS/W
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
3.83 GFLOPS/W

UnixBench

Higher Scores are Better

Single Core
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
492
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
1,310
Multi Core
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
3,252
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
5,300

PassMark CPU

Higher Scores are Better

CPU Score
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
2,189
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
3,525

CPU Mining (cpuminer-multi)

Higher Hashrates are Better

Single Core
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
2.7 kH/s
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
5.07 kH/s
Multi Core
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
17.73 kH/s
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
26.25 kH/s

Memory Performance

Memory bandwidth and throughput benchmarks

TinyMemBench

Higher Bandwidth is Better

memcpy
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
5,661.6 MB/s
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
No Data
memset
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
16,885.8 MB/s
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
No Data

PassMark RAM

Higher Scores are Better

RAM Score
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
1,004
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
1,871

AI & LLM Performance

Large Language Model inference performance

Ollama LLM Benchmark

Higher Scores are Better

Tokens/sec
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
8.22 tok/s
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
8.82 tok/s
Tokens/Watt
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
1.01 tok/W
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
1.18 tok/W
Tokens/Dollar
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
0.07 tok/$
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
No Data

Storage Performance

Disk I/O throughput measured with FIO

fio Storage Performance - microSD

Higher Speeds are Better • Raspberry Pi 64GB (64GB microSD)

4K Random Read
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
No Data
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
17.4 MB/s
4K Random Write
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
No Data
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
13.9 MB/s

fio Storage Performance - eMMC

Higher Speeds are Better • ArmSoM Sige5 (64GB eMMC)

4K Random Read
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
50.5 MB/s
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
No Data
4K Random Write
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
76.8 MB/s
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
No Data

fio Storage Performance - M.2 NVMe

Higher Speeds are Better • Crucial P5 Plus (1024GB M.2 NVMe)

4K Random Read
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
375.5 MB/s
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
608.5 MB/s
4K Random Write
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
307.6 MB/s
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
437.4 MB/s

fio Storage Performance - UFS

Higher Speeds are Better • Radxa UFS (128GB UFS)

4K Random Read
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
No Data
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
475.1 MB/s
4K Random Write
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
No Data
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
254.9 MB/s

Network Performance

Ethernet and WiFi throughput measured with iPerf3

iPerf3 Network Performance

Higher Speeds are Better

Ethernet Up
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
938 Mbps
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
941 Mbps
Ethernet Down
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
939 Mbps
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
941 Mbps

Power & Thermal

Power consumption at idle and under various workloads

Power Consumption

Lower is "Better"

Idle Power
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
3W
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
2.5W
Load Power
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
6.1W
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
6.4W
Ollama Max
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
8.6W
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
7.5W
Linpack Max
ArmSoM Sige5 (8GB)
8.7W
Radxa Dragon Q6A (6GB)
10.1W

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