OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan vs. Fedora 23
Apple Mac OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan vs. Fedora 23 Linux on a Haswell MacBook Air. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.


OS X 10.11.1: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 1.30GHz (4 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 10.11.1, Kernel: 15.0.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.1.76) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 7.1.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1366x768

Fedora 23: 

	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 23, Kernel: 4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.6 (git-2555e00), Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768

Fedora 23 + Clang 3.7: 

	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 23, Kernel: 4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.6 (git-2555e00), Compiler: Clang 3.7.0 + LLVM 3.7.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.11.1 .......... 1304 |==============
Fedora 23 ............. 4491 |=================================================
Fedora 23 + Clang 3.7 . 4518 |=================================================


Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 1366 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.11.1 .......... 32.28 |==========================
Fedora 23 ............. 57.55 |===============================================
Fedora 23 + Clang 3.7 . 59.30 |================================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
OS X 10.11.1 .......... 44.99 |================================================
Fedora 23 ............. 13.35 |==============
Fedora 23 + Clang 3.7 . 15.89 |=================


Fhourstones 3.1
Complex Connect-4 Solving
Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.11.1 .......... 8637.13 |===========================================
Fedora 23 ............. 9097.47 |=============================================
Fedora 23 + Clang 3.7 . 9250.43 |==============================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.11.1 .......... 785.35  |===========================
Fedora 23 ............. 1344.88 |==============================================
Fedora 23 + Clang 3.7 . 1172.96 |========================================


Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
OS X 10.11.1 .......... 76.82 |================================================
Fedora 23 ............. 69.49 |===========================================
Fedora 23 + Clang 3.7 . 59.03 |=====================================


Primesieve 5.4.2
1e12 Prime Number Generation
Seconds < Lower Is Better
OS X 10.11.1 .......... 499.39 |===============================================
Fedora 23 ............. 253.90 |========================
Fedora 23 + Clang 3.7 . 479.55 |=============================================


Stockfish 2014-11-26
Total Time
ms < Lower Is Better
OS X 10.11.1 .......... 5346 |=================================================
Fedora 23 ............. 5023 |==============================================
Fedora 23 + Clang 3.7 . 5062 |==============================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.11.1 .......... 44.87  |===========
Fedora 23 ............. 191.40 |===============================================
Fedora 23 + Clang 3.7 . 191.40 |===============================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3
Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.11.1 .......... 2299.83 |==============================================
Fedora 23 ............. 1084.49 |======================
Fedora 23 + Clang 3.7 . 1070.84 |=====================