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 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 |=============================================== 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 |============================================== 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 |================================================ 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 |============================================ 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 |=============================================== 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 |==================================== 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 |=============================================== 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 |=============================================== 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 |============================================== 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 |=============================================== 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 |========================================== 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 |==================== 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 |============================================ 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 |==================================================== 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 |=============================================== 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 |================================ 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 |=============================================== 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 |================================================ 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 |================================================ 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 |======================