OS X Benchmarking Intel Core i5 testing with a Apple Mac mini and Intel Iris 1536MB on OS X 10.11.6 via the Phoronix Test Suite. OS X 10.10.5: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 8, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 1 TB APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662, Graphics: Intel Iris 1536MB, Monitor: Thunderbolt Display OS: OS X 10.10.5, Kernel: 14.5.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 7.2.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 OS X 10.11.6: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 8, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 1 TB APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662, Graphics: Intel Iris 1536MB, Monitor: Thunderbolt Display OS: OS X 10.11.6, Kernel: 15.6.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.38) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 8.0, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 43.92 |===================================================== OS X 10.11.6 . 47.14 |========================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 68.95 |======================================================= OS X 10.11.6 . 71.38 |========================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 43.21 |===================================================== OS X 10.11.6 . 46.04 |========================================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 38.03 |========================================================= OS X 10.11.6 . 34.86 |==================================================== Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 10197.87 |====================================================== OS X 10.11.6 . 10053.20 |===================================================== TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 1078267 |======================================================= OS X 10.11.6 . 1074064 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 94 |============================================================ OS X 10.11.6 . 93 |=========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 125 |=========================================================== OS X 10.11.6 . 115 |====================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 885.75 |======================================================== OS X 10.11.6 . 789.22 |================================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 82.29 |====================================================== OS X 10.11.6 . 86.56 |========================================================= Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 61.54 |========================================================= OS X 10.11.6 . 60.64 |======================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 76.27 |========================================================= OS X 10.11.6 . 72.63 |====================================================== Stockfish 2014-11-26 Total Time ms < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 4971 |========================================================== OS X 10.11.6 . 4432 |==================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 57.63 |====================================================== OS X 10.11.6 . 60.33 |========================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 315.17 |======================================================= OS X 10.11.6 . 318.40 |======================================================== Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 Test: FLOAT QUIPs > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 239904779.38 |================================================== OS X 10.11.6 . 242065033.45 |================================================== Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 43.53 |======================================================= OS X 10.11.6 . 44.77 |========================================================= Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . MIN: 4.0 AVG: 22.9 MAX: 86.0 OS X 10.11.6 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 21.9 MAX: 74.0 BLAKE2 20130131 Phoronix Test Suite v6.6.0 Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 4.96 |======================================================= OS X 10.11.6 . 5.19 |========================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 1131.74 |====================================================== OS X 10.11.6 . 1142.96 |======================================================= Primesieve 5.4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 423.09 |======================================================== OS X 10.11.6 . 411.37 |====================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.10.5 . 44.77 |========================================================= OS X 10.11.6 . 43.96 |========================================================