Generation Mobile CPU Performance and Power Data

Conditions of Use

Cite the paper whenever you use this data in any publication or presentation.

The BiBTex is provided below for convenience:

@inproceedings{halpern2016mobile,
  title={Mobile CPU’s Rise to Power: Quantifying the Impact of
         Generational Mobile CPU Design Trends on Performance,
         Energy, and User Satisfaction},
  author={Halpern, Matthew and
          Zhu, Yuhao and
          Janapa Reddi, Vijay},
  booktitle={High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA),
             2016 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on},
  year={2016}
}

Introduction

The data in this spreadsheet is a companion to the paper:

M. Halpern, Y. Zhu, V. J. Reddi, "Mobile CPU's Rise to Power: Quantifying the Impact of Generational Mobile CPU Design Trends on Performance, Energy, and User Satisfaction", in the 22nd Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), March, 2016.

The data can be found within the following three CSV files:

phones.csv

Column	Description
phone_id	Unique identifier for phone studied
manufacturer	Phone manufacturer
model	Phone model name
soc	System-on-Chip
process	Process technology node
cpu	CPU design
cores	Number of CPU cores (big/LITTLE when necessary)
frequency	Peak CPU operating frequency (we observed)
l0_cache	L0 cache size (instruction/data)
l1_cache	L1 cache size (instruction/data)
l2_cache	L2 cache size (instruction/data)
ram	DRAM size and technology
os	Android OS version

perf.csv

Column	Description
phone_id	Unique identifier for phone studied
spec	SPEC execution time
coremark	Coremark execution time
sunspider	Sunspider execution time
geekbench	Geekbench execution time
stream	Stream execution time

power.csv

Column	Description
phone_id	Unique identifier for phone studied
spec	SPEC average power consumption
coremark	Coremark average power consumption
sunspider	Sunspider average power consumption
geekbench	Geekbench average power consumption
stream	Stream average power consumption

Methodology

Experimental methodology details for the performance experiments and power measurements can be found in Sections 2.1 and 2.1, respectively, within the paper.