Apple Mac Mini 2011: Mac OS X 10.7 vs. Ubuntu
Benchmarking of 2011 Apple Mac Mini with Intel Sandy Bridge CPU and Intel Sandy Bridge graphics running a stock install of Ubuntu 11.10 compared to a clean Apple Mac OS X 10.7.2 install. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com.
Ubuntu 11.10
Processor: Intel Core i5-2415M @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n
OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: intel 2.15.901, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.2+. Compiz was running on this system.
Mac OS X 10.7.2 - Xcode4
Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 6, Memory: 2 x 1 GB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 288MB, Monitor: Acer P243W
OS: Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74), Kernel: 11.2.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.10.3, Display Driver: intel, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 3.0, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200
System Notes: No Java runtime present requesting install.. Python 2.7.1.
Mac OS X 10.7.2 - Xcode4 Clang
Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 6, Memory: 2 x 1 GB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 288MB, Monitor: Acer P243W
OS: Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74), Kernel: 11.2.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.10.3, Display Driver: intel, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Clang 3.0 + GCC 4.2.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200
GraphicsMagick
Fhourstones
BYTE Unix Benchmark
Compile Bench
Stream
Himeno Benchmark
The Himeno benchmark is a linear solver of pressure Poisson using a point-Jacobi method. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Java SciMark
SciMark
7-Zip Compression
TSCP
John The Ripper
OpenSSL
CLOMP
CLOMP is the C version of the Livermore OpenMP benchmark developed to measure OpenMP overheads and other performance impacts due to threading in order to influence future system designs. This particular test profile configuration is currently set to look at the OpenMP static schedule speed-up across all available CPU cores using the recommended test configuration. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PostgreSQL pgbench
PostMark
PyBench
Bork File Encrypter
Timed Apache Compilation
Timed ImageMagick Compilation
Timed PHP Compilation
C-Ray
Gzip Compression
dcraw
Monkey Audio Encoding
LAME MP3 Encoding
LAME is an MP3 encoder licensed under the LGPL. This test measures the time required to encode a WAV file to MP3 format. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
WavPack Audio Encoding
FFmpeg
Timed MAFFT Alignment
Timed MrBayes Analysis
Sample Pi Program
Sudokut
This is a test of Sudokut, which is a Sudoku puzzle solver written in Tcl. This test measures how long it takes to solve 100 Sudoku puzzles. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Sunflow Rendering System
Unpacking The Linux Kernel
Ubuntu 11.10
Processor: Intel Core i5-2415M @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n
OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: intel 2.15.901, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.2+. Compiz was running on this system.
Testing initiated at 16 January 2012 08:02 by user phoronix.
Mac OS X 10.7.2 - Xcode4
Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 6, Memory: 2 x 1 GB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 288MB, Monitor: Acer P243W
OS: Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74), Kernel: 11.2.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.10.3, Display Driver: intel, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 3.0, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200
System Notes: No Java runtime present requesting install.. Python 2.7.1.
Testing initiated at 17 January 2012 17:48 by user phoronix.
Mac OS X 10.7.2 - Xcode4 Clang
Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 6, Memory: 2 x 1 GB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 288MB, Monitor: Acer P243W
OS: Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74), Kernel: 11.2.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.10.3, Display Driver: intel, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Clang 3.0 + GCC 4.2.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200
System Notes: No Java runtime present requesting install.. Python 2.7.1.
Testing initiated at 18 January 2012 04:24 by user phoronix.