OS X 10.10 vs. Fedora 21 vs. Ubuntu 14.10 vs. SUSE OS X 10.10 Yosemite and OS X 10.9 Mavericks versus Fedora 21 and Ubuntu 14.10 performance benchmarks. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. OS X 10.10.1: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 1.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Air, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 2048 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128F, Graphics: Intel HD 5000 1536MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.10.1, Kernel: 14.0.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.54) (based on LLVM 3.5svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 6.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Ubuntu 14.10: Processor: Intel Core i5-4250U @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C1E88140C3E6CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128, Graphics: Intel Haswell-ULT IGP (1000MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-25-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: intel 2.99.914, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Fedora 21: Processor: Intel Core i5-4250U @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C1E88140C3E6CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128, Graphics: Intel Haswell-ULT IGP (1000MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.17.4-300.fc21.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.2, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.916, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.3, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20141101, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 openSUSE 20141124: Processor: Intel Core i5-4250U @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C1E88140C3E6CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128, Graphics: Intel Haswell-ULT IGP (1000MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: openSUSE 20141124, Kernel: 3.17.2-1-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.3, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.916, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 ...... 1313 |=================== Ubuntu 14.10 ...... 3545 |================================================== Fedora 21 ......... 3748 |===================================================== openSUSE 20141124 . 3713 |===================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 32.50 |===================================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 39.49 |============================================== Fedora 21 .... 49.44 |========================================================= Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1366 x 768 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 ...... 47.63 |================================= Ubuntu 14.10 ...... 56.20 |======================================= Fedora 21 ......... 56.17 |======================================= openSUSE 20141124 . 74.73 |==================================================== Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.1 ...... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 20.7 MAX: 88.0 Ubuntu 14.10 ...... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 17.2 MAX: 27.0 Fedora 21 ......... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 17.8 MAX: 30.0 openSUSE 20141124 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 13.8 MAX: 32.0 Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 ...... 43.13 |============================ Ubuntu 14.10 ...... 58.96 |====================================== Fedora 21 ......... 58.84 |====================================== openSUSE 20141124 . 80.17 |==================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 ...... 36.31 |========================== Ubuntu 14.10 ...... 56.22 |========================================= Fedora 21 ......... 57.16 |========================================== openSUSE 20141124 . 71.25 |==================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 ...... 33.05 |================================ Ubuntu 14.10 ...... 42.50 |========================================= Fedora 21 ......... 53.10 |=================================================== openSUSE 20141124 . 54.46 |==================================================== PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 39.03 |========================================================= Ubuntu 14.10 . 30.42 |============================================ Fedora 21 .... 35.59 |==================================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.1 ...... 46.42 |==================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 ...... 16.82 |=================== Fedora 21 ......... 16.62 |=================== openSUSE 20141124 . 17.11 |=================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 57 |================================================ Ubuntu 14.10 . 71 |============================================================ Fedora 21 .... 69 |========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 37 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 44 |============================================================ Fedora 21 .... 44 |============================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 80 |=========================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 81 |============================================================ Fedora 21 .... 80 |=========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 104 |=========================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 104 |=========================================================== Fedora 21 .... 102 |========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 64 |============================================================ Ubuntu 14.10 . 53 |================================================== Fedora 21 .... 55 |==================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 ...... 807.43 |================================= Ubuntu 14.10 ...... 1205.43 |================================================== Fedora 21 ......... 1208.18 |================================================== openSUSE 20141124 . 1057.58 |============================================ Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.1 ...... 79.24 |===================== Ubuntu 14.10 ...... 196.42 |=================================================== Fedora 21 ......... 185.94 |================================================ openSUSE 20141124 . 178.46 |============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.1 ...... 85.79 |================================================= Ubuntu 14.10 ...... 88.18 |=================================================== Fedora 21 ......... 87.62 |================================================== openSUSE 20141124 . 90.28 |==================================================== Primesieve 5.4 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.1 ...... 494.86 |=================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 ...... 321.30 |================================= Fedora 21 ......... 321.29 |================================= openSUSE 20141124 . 322.68 |================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 ...... 40.50 |============== Ubuntu 14.10 ...... 148.60 |================================================== Fedora 21 ......... 150.47 |=================================================== openSUSE 20141124 . 147.63 |==================================================