Raspberry Pi 3 & 3+ speed issues
John Klos <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:13:33 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi, I recently noticed this discrepancy in the reported versus actual speed of Raspberry Pi 3s. otter: [ 1.000000] simplebus0 at armfdt0: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 [ 4.267737] mue0 at uhub2 port 1 machdep.cpu.frequency.current = 1400 time ./primes 1000000, 15485863 12.256u 0.000s 0:12.70 96.4% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w jasper: [ 1.000000] simplebus0 at armfdt0: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2 [ 3.220862] usmsc0 at uhub1 port 1 machdep.cpu.frequency.current = 1200 time ./primes 1000000, 15485863 12.151u 0.000s 0:12.16 99.9% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w So they're basically both running at the same speed. At 600 MHz, they both take about 24.5 seconds to count the first million prime numbers, meaning that the Pi 3+, which says it's running at 1400 MHz, is really running at 1200 MHz. I don't know if this has always been the case, but I have vague memories of the 3+ being slightly faster in real world. Any ideas, anyone? NetBSD 11.0_RC6, aarch64, recent start*.elf, fixup*.dat and so on. Thanks, John