Apple MacBook Pro Late 2010 - Fedora 17
Intel Core i5 testing with a Apple MacBook Pro and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M + Intel HD 256MB on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) via the Phoronix Test Suite. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Fedora 17 (with all stable updates as of 23 August added in) results appended to earlier Phoronix.com results for a portion of the 2010 Apple MBP results for a glimpse at no real difference with the Beefy Miracle over Ubuntu Linux compared against OS X Mountain Lion.


Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5 520M @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-F22586C8, Chipset: Intel Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ ILITY2, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: fbdev 0.4.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900

Ubuntu 12.10 20120821: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5 520M @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-F22586C8, Chipset: Intel Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ ILITY2, Graphics: Intel Core IGP, Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n

	OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-11-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.12.99.904 (1.13.0 RC 4), Display Driver: fbdev 0.4.3, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900

Fedora 17: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5 520M @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-F22586C8, Chipset: Intel Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ ILITY2 + 128GB RVS02 SuperSpeed, Graphics: Intel Core IGP 256MB, Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n

	OS: Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle), Kernel: 3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.0 20120507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900

OS X 10.8.0: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 5, Memory: 2 x 2048 DDR3-1067MHz, Disk: 120GB OCZ-AGILITY2, Graphics: Intel HD + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 288MB, Monitor: Color LCD

	OS: OS X 10.8 (12A269), Kernel: 12.0.0 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7.1 + Clang 4.0 + Xcode 4.4.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1440x900

Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx: 

	Processor: AMD A6-3410MX APU @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 358D v33.18, Chipset: AMD Family 12h Root Complex, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST9500420AS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6520G 512MB, Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Ralink Device 5390

	OS: Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle), Kernel: 3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.8.5, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: fglrx 8.98.2, OpenGL: 4.2.11762, Compiler: GCC 4.7.0 20120507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 184.82 |============================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 180.35 |===========================================
Fedora 17 ............... 184.05 |============================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 187.78 |=============================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 1.73   |


FFTE 5.0
Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 3830.66 |===========================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 3913.98 |============================================
Fedora 17 ............... 3903.57 |============================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 2966.19 |=================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 16.97 |========================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 16.48 |=======================
Fedora 17 ............... 16.75 |=======================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 32.81 |==============================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 18.94 |===========================


Fhourstones 3.1
Complex Connect-4 Solving
Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 7687.17 |===========================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 7560.37 |==========================================
Fedora 17 ............... 7900.17 |============================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 7497.73 |==========================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 6677.93 |=====================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Composite
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 647.56 |=============================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 623.46 |===========================================
Fedora 17 ............... 612.67 |===========================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 641.04 |=============================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 392.90 |===========================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Monte Carlo
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 364.93 |=============================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 282.59 |===================================
Fedora 17 ............... 284.08 |===================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 278.13 |==================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 189.21 |=======================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 140.96 |=============================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 138.90 |============================================
Fedora 17 ............... 104.86 |=================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 141.74 |=============================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 59.58  |===================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 881.84 |============================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 864.15 |===========================================
Fedora 17 ............... 867.85 |===========================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 905.13 |=============================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 580.59 |=============================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 1033.60 |===========================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 1022.70 |==========================================
Fedora 17 ............... 992.78  |=========================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 1065.81 |============================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 647.26  |===========================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 816.48 |=============================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 808.93 |=============================================
Fedora 17 ............... 813.77 |=============================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 814.72 |=============================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 487.85 |===========================


VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1
vpxenc
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 12.39 |==============================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 11.66 |===========================================
Fedora 17 ............... 10.92 |=========================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 8.39  |===============================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 1048.24 |===========================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 1083.79 |============================================
Fedora 17 ............... 1073.26 |============================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 469.66  |===================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 405.85  |================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 6146 |============================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 6148 |============================================
Fedora 17 ............... 6498 |===============================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 5848 |==========================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 5530 |========================================


Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 161.07 |===========================================
Fedora 17 ............... 159.46 |===========================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 160.66 |===========================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 167.84 |=============================================


Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 73.21  |================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 76.88  |==================================
Fedora 17 ............... 75.81  |=================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 102.47 |=============================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 84.55  |=====================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 132.66 |=============================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 98.29  |=================================
Fedora 17 ............... 107.89 |=====================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 91.14  |===============================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 105.75 |====================================


dcraw
RAW To PPM Image Conversion
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 91.87  |=========================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 92.38  |=========================
Fedora 17 ............... 94.49  |=========================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 93.46  |=========================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 168.61 |=============================================


FFmpeg 0.6.1
AVI To NTSC VCD
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 14.98 |============================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 14.95 |============================
Fedora 17 ............... 15.23 |============================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 15.21 |============================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 24.68 |==============================================


Sudokut 0.4
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 29.10 |=======================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 30.64 |========================
Fedora 17 ............... 30.37 |========================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 57.95 |==============================================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 46.23 |=====================================


OpenSSL 1.0.0e
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ........ 45.10 |==============================================
Ubuntu 12.10 20120821 ... 44.80 |==============================================
Fedora 17 ............... 44.80 |==============================================
OS X 10.8.0 ............. 20.60 |=====================
Fedora 17 AMD-A6-3410mx . 38.20 |=======================================