FreeBSD PC-BSD 10.2 vs. Ubuntu 15.10 Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: ALASKA A M I, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: INTEL SSDSCKGW080A4 DC01 + AHCI SGPIO Enclosure 1.00 0001 + Lexar USB Flash Drive 1100, Graphics: 2048MB, Audio: ATI RV970 HDA, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.4.2 OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 10.2-RELEASE-p2 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.3, Display Server: X Server 1.14.7, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.3, Compiler: Clang 3.4.1 (SVN 208032), File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: ALASKA A M I, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: INTEL SSDSCKGW080A4 DC01 + AHCI SGPIO Enclosure 1.00 0001 + Lexar USB Flash Drive 1100, Graphics: 2048MB, Audio: ATI RV970 HDA, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.4.2 OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 10.2-RELEASE-p2 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.3, Display Server: X Server 1.14.7, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.3, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0 + Clang 3.4.1 (SVN 208032), File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Ubuntu 15.10 20151009: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-14-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151003, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 279.74 |=============================== PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 283.95 |================================ Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 387.43 |=========================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 487.45 |======================== PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 499.14 |======================== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 889.83 |=========================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 178.32 |========================= PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 179.02 |========================= Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 303.18 |=========================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 316.11 |====== PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 313.79 |====== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 2210.91 |========================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 2622 |===================== PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 2635 |===================== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 5555 |============================================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 7.08 |===================== PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 7.16 |===================== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 14.97 |============================================ Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 13735.20 |========================================= PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 13197.90 |======================================= Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 12987.10 |======================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 71 |=============================== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 106 |============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 48 |================= Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 132 |============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 100 |========================== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 175 |============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 127 |======================================== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 147 |============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 79 |=========================================== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 86 |=============================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 1724.91 |======================================= PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 1718.99 |====================================== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 1877.34 |========================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 10.67 |================= PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 17.19 |=========================== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 27.63 |============================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 12.33 |============================================ PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 12.35 |============================================ PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 12.35 |============================================ Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 12.32 |============================================ Primesieve 5.4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 371.57 |=========================================== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 39.50 |===== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 8.49 |============================================= PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 6.84 |==================================== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 7.13 |====================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 12.54 |========================================== PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 13.08 |============================================ Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 12.88 |=========================================== N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 211.41 |=========================================== PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 211.45 |=========================================== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 24.21 |===== Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 Test: FLOAT QUIPs > Higher Is Better PC-BSD 10.2 - Clang 3.4.1 . 216227183.49 |======================== PC-BSD 10.2 - GCC 5.2.0 ... 216128284.39 |======================== Ubuntu 15.10 20151009 ..... 328901800.94 |=====================================