# OpenCV Bad performance Android
**URL:** https://forum.opencv.org/t/opencv-bad-performance-android/10773
**Category:** Android/Java
**Tags:** build
**Created:** [November 2, 2022, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/opencv-bad-performance-android/10773 "2022-11-02T11:44:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@mropencv](https://forum.opencv.org/u/mropencv)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2022, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/opencv-bad-performance-android/10773/1 "2022-11-02T11:44:16Z")
Hi,
I am working on an Android app that uses opencv 4.6.0 compiled like [so](https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/blob/develop/pythonforandroid/recipes/opencv/ __init__.py) and it is 100 to 150x slower on most cv2 calls compared to opencv-python on Windows. I expect the performance difference to be 3-4x, which is also what I see when testing with numpy.
For example the below on a 1920x1080 image takes 600ms on a snapdragon 820 and is done in 5ms on i7-8650U. While according to most benchmarks these CPUs differ only about 3-4x in performance.
> blur = cv2.GaussianBlur(image, (5, 5), 0)
If I run the same functions on both platforms with numpy I only see a roughly 3x performance degradation
What causes this huge performance penality and how can we improve it?
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### Author:  [@berak](https://forum.opencv.org/u/berak)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/opencv-bad-performance-android/10773/2 "2022-11-02T12:22:38Z")
what does `print(cv2.getBuildInformation())` report ?
(ARM/NEON optimizations ?)
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### Author:  [@mropencv](https://forum.opencv.org/u/mropencv)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/opencv-bad-performance-android/10773/3 "2022-11-02T12:57:33Z")
Here we go:
```nohighlight
General configuration for OpenCV 4.6.0 =====================================
Version control: 68b7b68-dirty
Platform:
Timestamp: 2022-11-02T10:15:43Z
Host: Linux 5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64
Target: Android 1 aarch64
CMake: 3.16.3
CMake generator: Unix Makefiles
CMake build tool: /usr/bin/make
Configuration: Release
CPU/HW features:
Baseline: NEON FP16
C/C++:
Built as dynamic libs?: YES
C++ standard: 11
C++ Compiler: /home/user/.buildozer/android/platform/android-ndk-r23b/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/clang++ (ver 12.0.8)
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ccache: NO
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OpenCV modules:
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Disabled by dependency: -
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Applications: -
Documentation: NO
Non-free algorithms: NO
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STL type: c++_static
Native API level: 21
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PXM: YES
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Java:
ant: NO
Java wrappers: NO
Java tests: NO
```