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

new macbook pro with mavericks: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 500GB APPLE SSD SM0512F, Graphics: Intel Iris Pro + NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 1024MB, Monitor: Color LCD

	OS: OS X 10.9, Kernel: 13.0.2 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 5.0.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800


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 |==================================
new macbook pro with mavericks . 37.77 |=======================================


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  |==========================
new macbook pro with mavericks . 10209.10 |====================================


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  |=================
new macbook pro with mavericks . 1356.24 |=====================================


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 |======================
new macbook pro with mavericks . 482.72 |======================================


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 |===============
new macbook pro with mavericks . 368.44 |======================================


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  |===============
new macbook pro with mavericks . 2278.80 |=====================================


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 |=================
new macbook pro with mavericks . 2278.95 |=====================================


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  |======================
new macbook pro with mavericks . 1372.33 |=====================================


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  |================
new macbook pro with mavericks . 982.40  |==================================


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  |=============
new macbook pro with mavericks . 17212 |=======================================


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 |======================================
new macbook pro with mavericks . 28.27  |==========


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  |==========================
new macbook pro with mavericks . 34.27  |==========


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 |=======================================
new macbook pro with mavericks . 49.59 |====================


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 |=======================================
new macbook pro with mavericks . 36.74 |=========================


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