Benchmarking of Apple OS X 10.7.4 Lion vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 12.10 for a future article on Phoronix.com. Using a mid-2011 Apple Mac Mini for the test platform. All three operating systems were benchmarked in their stock configuration for this performance comparison by Michael Larabel.
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Mac OS X 10.7.4 vs. Ubuntu Linux - Sandy Bridge Mac Mini
Benchmarking of Apple OS X 10.7.4 Lion vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 12.10 for a future article on Phoronix.com. Using a mid-2011 Apple Mac Mini for the test platform. All three operating systems were benchmarked in their stock configuration for this performance comparison by Michael Larabel.
,,"Mac OS X 10.7.4","Ubuntu 12.04 LTS","Ubuntu 12.10 2012-06-21"
Processor,,Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores),Intel Core i5-2415M @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2415M @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores)
Motherboard,,Apple Mac mini,Apple Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1,Apple Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1
Chipset,,Intel 6,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM
Memory,,2048 x 1 GB DDR3-1333MHz,2048MB,2048MB
Disk,,500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302,500GB Hitachi HTS54505,500GB Hitachi HTS54505
Graphics,,Intel HD 3000 288MB,Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+),Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+)
Monitor,,Acer P243W,Acer P243W,Acer P243W
Audio,,,Cirrus Logic CS4206,Cirrus Logic CS4206
Network,,,Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n,Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n
OS,,Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53),Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.10
Kernel,,11.4.0 (x86_64),3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64),3.5.0-1-generic (x86_64)
Display Server,,X Server 1.10.6,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3
OpenGL,,2.1,3.0 Mesa 8.0.2,3.0 Mesa 8.0.3
Compiler,,Clang 3.1 + Xcode 4.3.3,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.7
File-System,,Journaled HFS+,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1200,1920x1200,1920x1200
Desktop,,,Unity 5.10.0,Unity 5.12.0
Display Driver,,,intel 2.17.0,intel 2.19.0
,,"Mac OS X 10.7.4","Ubuntu 12.04 LTS","Ubuntu 12.10 2012-06-21"
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,54.81,13.44,12.85
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,24.40,68.03,67.93
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,14,37,37
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,129,250,217
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,29.99,17.52,19.83
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,104.53,66.45,71.25
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,60,93,92
"Nexuiz - Resolution: 1600 x 1200 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,18.12,24.11,27.05
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,40.94,27.55,32.17
"Urban Terror - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,42.93,56.27,63.43
"Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,17.51,21.56,23.99
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,130.50,129.69,96.31
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,73.82,58.07,67.90
"Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,32.22,32.92,27.90
"Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,33.00,33.80,30.56
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,6883,7243,7220
"Compile Bench - Test: Read Compiled Tree (MB/s)",HIB,134.93,23.54,24.26