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.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1209114-SU-1208245RA31
Apple MacBook Pro Late 2010 - Fedora 17,
"OpenSSL 1.0.0e - RSA 4096-bit Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",45,45,45.2,45.2
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",44.8,44.8,44.8,44.8
"Fedora 17",44.8,44.8,44.9,44.7
"OS X 10.8.0",20.6,20.6,20.6,20.6
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",12.6,12.6,12.6,12.6
"Sudokut 0.4 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",29.11821103096,29.061300992966,29.122946023941
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",30.68673992157,30.572632074356,30.662815093994
"Fedora 17",30.374165058136,30.333475112915,30.395984172821
"OS X 10.8.0",57.91349697113,58.008100032806,57.917356967926
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",95.638295173645,95.815979003906,95.444132089615
"FFmpeg 0.6.1 - AVI To NTSC VCD",
Lower Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",15.037597179413,14.960242033005,14.937144994736
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",15.019449949265,14.936833143234,14.89742898941
"Fedora 17",15.297667980194,15.218354940414,15.186711072922
"OS X 10.8.0",15.266005992889,15.174189090729,15.177855014801
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",25.245553970337,25.151483058929,25.105694055557
"dcraw - RAW To PPM Image Conversion",
Lower Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",91.939124822617,91.889345884323,91.785039901733
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",93.615514039993,91.767750024796,91.760971069336
"Fedora 17",93.334673881531,93.400064945221,96.72262597084
"OS X 10.8.0",93.757518053055,93.457058191299,93.17783498764
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",143.27692008018,144.02240014076,143.70324420929
"C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",129.503,131.613,136.862
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",93.817,97.799,100.843,100.705
"Fedora 17",104.149,110.009,109.503
"OS X 10.8.0",91.181,91.136,91.099
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",249.455,248.076,247.731
"Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",73.279639005661,73.100209951401,73.243695020676
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",76.859848976135,76.689725160599,77.097568035126
"Fedora 17",75.702637910843,75.594862937927,76.136329889297
"OS X 10.8.0",102.49258589745,102.5449898243,102.36084103584
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",173.37639117241,173.49890708923,175.85079288483
"Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",160.84742498398,161.05244112015,161.32469511032
"Fedora 17",157.3783121109,158.08790898323,162.91049599648
"OS X 10.8.0",160.5890390873,160.74149489403,160.64122581482
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",202.44901490211,206.6955780983,204.17875409126
"7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 - Compress Speed Test",
Higher Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",6109,6181,6147
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",6171,6183,6091
"Fedora 17",6448,6510,6536
"OS X 10.8.0",5850,5858,5837
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",2621,2684,2671
"Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver",
Higher Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1050.181044,1043.193385,1051.338865
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",1085.505091,1082.090708,1083.774418
"Fedora 17",1077.666292,1066.943514,1075.157326
"OS X 10.8.0",469.809457,469.93194,469.241126
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",177.115825,183.471126,182.006406
"VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 - vpxenc",
Higher Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",12.44,12.34,12.38
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",12.4,12.33,11.57,11.21,11.27,11.19
"Fedora 17",12.12,10.96,10.63,10.48,10.71,10.59
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation",
Higher Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",815.39,817.56,815.39,817.56
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",808.93,808.93,808.93,808.93
"Fedora 17",813.23,815.39,813.23,813.23
"OS X 10.8.0",815.29,815.45,812.69,815.44
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",657.97,657.64,657.46,655.76
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization",
Higher Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",1029.6,1033.59,1037.61,1033.59
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",1017.81,1025.64,1025.64,1021.71
"Fedora 17",955.79,998.75,998.75,1017.81
"OS X 10.8.0",1064.99,1065.85,1067.59,1064.8
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",510.49,541.14,512.33,509.79
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply",
Higher Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",878.97,878.97,890.43,878.97
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",860.5,867.8,864.14,864.14
"Fedora 17",867.8,875.21,856.9,871.49
"OS X 10.8.0",906.48,905.81,905.83,902.39
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",466.1,464.16,463.19,462.02
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform",
Higher Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",140.73,141.19,141.19,140.73
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",138.45,138.9,139.81,138.45
"Fedora 17",104.35,105.37,104.86,104.86
"OS X 10.8.0",141.83,141.76,141.68,141.7
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",67.27,67.36,69.6,66.03
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Monte Carlo",
Higher Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",363.98,368.98,361.53,365.22
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",287.1,281.08,281.82,280.35
"Fedora 17",282.56,288.64,282.56,282.56
"OS X 10.8.0",277.89,278.12,278.28,278.21
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",235.01,235.14,235.27,235.03
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Composite",
Higher Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",645.73,648.06,649.23,647.21
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",622.56,624.47,624.07,622.72
"Fedora 17",604.75,616.67,611.26,617.99
"OS X 10.8.0",640.88,641.33,640.48,641.45
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",387.37,393.09,387.57,385.72
"Fhourstones 3.1 - Complex Connect-4 Solving",
Higher Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",7703,7648.9,7709.6
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",7541.8,7578,7561.3
"Fedora 17",7870.7,7910.3,7919.5
"OS X 10.8.0",7494.5,7500.5,7498.2
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",5130.6,5130.5,5135.3
"Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment",
Lower Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",17.210955858231,15.598788022995,15.588852882385,18.514724969864,17.559898138046,17.342844963074
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",15.389988899231,16.964492797852,15.314532995224,17.119787216187,17.071605920792,17.017550945282
"Fedora 17",17.065614938736,15.421097993851,15.520038127899,17.013622045517,18.363508939743,17.128741025925
"OS X 10.8.0",32.875653028488,32.844162225723,32.712354898453
"FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine",
Higher Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",3825.0861635051,3837.9029951548,3829.0004496712
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",3890.6218442697,3932.3074538497,3919.0095148071
"Fedora 17",3901.5255792992,3907.7770548957,3901.4097852968
"Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8",
Higher Results Are Better
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS",180.569,186.665,183.529,188.518
"Ubuntu 12.10 20120821",183.129,141.083,174.207,189.355,189.094,186.999,188.862,190.108
"Fedora 17",187.071,180.524,187.758,180.839
"OS X 10.8.0",187.319,188.221,187.591,187.985
"KINGSTON SVP100S296G",35.691,30.928,35.583,36.106,29.715,38.656,36.424,32.267