Apple OS X 10.10 vs. Fedora 21 vs. Ubuntu 14.10 Tests OS X 10.10 Yosemite and OS X 10.9 Mavericks versus Fedora 21 and Ubuntu 14.10 performance benchmarks. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. OS X 10.10.1: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 1.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Air, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 2048 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128F, Graphics: Intel HD 5000 1536MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.10.1, Kernel: 14.0.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.54) (based on LLVM 3.5svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 6.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Ubuntu 14.10: Processor: Intel Core i5-4250U @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C1E88140C3E6CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128, Graphics: Intel Haswell-ULT IGP (1000MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-25-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: intel 2.99.914, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Fedora 21: Processor: Intel Core i5-4250U @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C1E88140C3E6CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128, Graphics: Intel Haswell-ULT IGP (1000MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.17.4-300.fc21.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.2, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.916, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.3, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20141101, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 1313 |==================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 3545 |======================================================= Fedora 21 .... 3748 |========================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 32.50 |===================================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 39.49 |============================================== Fedora 21 .... 49.44 |========================================================= Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1366 x 768 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 47.63 |================================================ Ubuntu 14.10 . 56.20 |========================================================= Fedora 21 .... 56.17 |========================================================= Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . MIN: 3.0 AVG: 20.7 MAX: 88.0 Ubuntu 14.10 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 17.2 MAX: 27.0 Fedora 21 .... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 17.8 MAX: 30.0 Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 43.13 |========================================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 58.96 |========================================================= Fedora 21 .... 58.84 |========================================================= Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 36.31 |==================================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 56.22 |======================================================== Fedora 21 .... 57.16 |========================================================= Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 33.05 |=================================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 42.50 |============================================== Fedora 21 .... 53.10 |========================================================= PolyBench-C 3.2 Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 39.03 |========================================================= Ubuntu 14.10 . 30.42 |============================================ Fedora 21 .... 35.59 |==================================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 46.42 |========================================================= Ubuntu 14.10 . 16.82 |===================== Fedora 21 .... 16.62 |==================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 57 |================================================ Ubuntu 14.10 . 71 |============================================================ Fedora 21 .... 69 |========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 37 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 44 |============================================================ Fedora 21 .... 44 |============================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 80 |=========================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 81 |============================================================ Fedora 21 .... 80 |=========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 104 |=========================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 104 |=========================================================== Fedora 21 .... 102 |========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 64 |============================================================ Ubuntu 14.10 . 53 |================================================== Fedora 21 .... 55 |==================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 807.43 |===================================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 1205.43 |======================================================= Fedora 21 .... 1208.18 |======================================================= Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 79.24 |======================= Ubuntu 14.10 . 196.42 |======================================================== Fedora 21 .... 185.94 |===================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 85.79 |======================================================= Ubuntu 14.10 . 88.18 |========================================================= Fedora 21 .... 87.62 |========================================================= Primesieve 5.4 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 494.86 |======================================================== Ubuntu 14.10 . 321.30 |==================================== Fedora 21 .... 321.29 |==================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.1 . 40.50 |=============== Ubuntu 14.10 . 148.60 |======================================================= Fedora 21 .... 150.47 |========================================================