Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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It's not always easy. But at least I'm learning!

If you want to read more about what happened in my HPL benchmarks on the Radxa Orion O6 and Minisforum MS-R1 with the Cix P1, read the following issues:

- github.com/geerlingguy/top500-benchmark/issues/54#issuecomment-3518813579
- github.com/geerlingguy/top500-benchmark/issues/82#issuecomment-3514084323

And I've since updated my blog post with the new HPL performance and efficiency numbers: jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/minisforum-stuffs-entire-arm-homelab-ms-r1

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Contents:

00:00 - Benchmarking is kind-of hard, actually
01:50 - Methodology and results in the open
04:02 - Big, Medium, Little cores
05:34 - Fixing what's wrong
06:49 - Reproducible benchmarks and power monitoring
09:03 - Arm vs x86 benchmarking
09:50 - Firmware on the O6
11:11 - Annoying case and cooling with a copper shim
13:34 - Lockups and slowing things down
14:28 - What went wrong