macOS 10.12 Open-Source Benchmarking Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. Intel Core i5 testing with a Apple Mac mini and Intel Iris 1536MB on macOS 10.12 via the Phoronix Test Suite. OS X 10.10.5: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 8, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 1 TB APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662, Graphics: Intel Iris 1536MB, Monitor: Thunderbolt Display OS: OS X 10.10.5, Kernel: 14.5.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 7.2.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 OS X 10.11.6: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 8, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 1 TB APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662, Graphics: Intel Iris 1536MB, Monitor: Thunderbolt Display OS: OS X 10.11.6, Kernel: 15.6.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.38) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 8.0, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 25macOS 10.12: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 8, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 1 TB APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662, Graphics: Intel Iris 1536MB, Monitor: Thunderbolt Display OS: macOS 10.12, Kernel: 16.0.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.38) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 8.0, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 43.92 |=============================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 47.14 |=================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 51.98 |======================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 68.95 |====================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 71.38 |======================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 67.68 |===================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 43.21 |===================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 46.04 |======================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 38.12 |============================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 38.03 |======================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 34.86 |=================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 34.80 |=================================================== Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 10197.87 |===================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 10053.20 |==================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 10036.43 |==================================================== TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 1078267 |====================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 1074064 |====================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 1073643 |====================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 94 |=========================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 93 |========================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 93 |========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 125 |========================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 115 |===================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 114 |===================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 885.75 |======================================================= OS X 10.11.6 .. 789.22 |================================================= 25macOS 10.12 . 852.18 |===================================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 82.29 |==================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 86.56 |====================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 89.12 |======================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 61.54 |======================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 60.64 |======================================================= 25macOS 10.12 . 61.94 |======================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 76.27 |======================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 72.63 |===================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 73.66 |====================================================== Stockfish 2014-11-26 Total Time ms < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 4971 |========================================================= OS X 10.11.6 .. 4432 |=================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 4438 |=================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 57.63 |===================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 60.33 |======================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 59.57 |======================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 315.17 |====================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 318.40 |======================================================= 25macOS 10.12 . 152.23 |========================== Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 Test: FLOAT QUIPs > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 239904779.38 |================================================= OS X 10.11.6 .. 242065033.45 |================================================= 25macOS 10.12 . 242155604.45 |================================================= Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 43.53 |============================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 44.77 |================================================ 25macOS 10.12 . 52.60 |======================================================== Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. MIN: 4.0 AVG: 22.9 MAX: 86.0 OS X 10.11.6 .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 21.9 MAX: 74.0 25macOS 10.12 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 19.0 MAX: 66.0 BLAKE2 20130131 Phoronix Test Suite v6.6.0 Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 4.96 |====================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 5.19 |========================================================= 25macOS 10.12 . 5.19 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 1131.74 |===================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 1142.96 |====================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 1147.02 |====================================================== Primesieve 5.4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 423.09 |======================================================= OS X 10.11.6 .. 411.37 |===================================================== 25macOS 10.12 . 408.84 |===================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 .. 44.77 |======================================================== OS X 10.11.6 .. 43.96 |======================================================= 25macOS 10.12 . 43.87 |=======================================================