macOS Sierra vs. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS vs. FreeBSD 11.0 Benchmarks
MacBook Air Haswell testing of macOS 10.12 Sierra versus Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with both GCC and Clang compilers and then FreeBSD 11.0. Benchmarks by 
Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.


macOS 10.12: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 1.30GHz (4 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: macOS 10.12, Kernel: 16.0.0 (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: 1366x768

Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS: 

	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 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768

Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8: 

	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 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0, Compiler: Clang 3.8.0-2ubuntu4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768

FreeBSD 11.0: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-4250U @ 1.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBookAir6 1 1.0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: APPLE SSD SD0128F A222021, Audio: Intel Haswell HDA

	OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 11.0-RELEASE (x86_64), Compiler: Clang 3.8.0 (SVN 262564), File-System: zfs


SQLite 3.8.10.2
Test Target: Default Test Directory
Seconds < Lower Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 31.97 |=======================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 27.10 |=================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 29.19 |====================================
FreeBSD 11.0 ................... 20.58 |=========================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 213.06 |=======================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 335.80 |=====================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 348.09 |======================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 50.60  |=======
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 271.03 |======================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 270.56 |======================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 41.25 |=======================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 16.12 |===============
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 14.63 |==============


Fhourstones 3.1
Complex Connect-4 Solving
Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 8505.53 |==================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 8838.08 |====================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 9135.77 |=====================================
FreeBSD 11.0 ................... 5085.10 |=====================


TSCP 1.81
AI Chess Performance
Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 907403 |=====================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 865880 |====================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 923505 |======================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 77  |===============================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 103 |=========================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 78  |===============================
FreeBSD 11.0 ................... 36  |==============


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 96  |================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 124 |=========================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 92  |==============================
FreeBSD 11.0 ................... 42  |==============


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 676.81  |====================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 1282.88 |=====================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 978.66  |============================
FreeBSD 11.0 ................... 400.55  |============


Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 112.14 |=====================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 152.11 |=============================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 200.81 |======================================


Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 85.36 |=====================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 63.83 |============================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 89.77 |=======================================
FreeBSD 11.0 ................... 72.24 |===============================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 97.77  |=====================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 73.28  |================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 146.65 |===============================
FreeBSD 11.0 ................... 179.16 |======================================


Stockfish 2014-11-26
Total Time
ms < Lower Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 5244 |========================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 4941 |======================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 4890 |=====================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 44.83  |=========
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 192.37 |======================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 134.55 |===========================


PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3
Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 3088.64 |=====================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 2001.79 |========================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 2088.44 |=========================


PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3
Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 2318.49 |=====================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 1138.14 |==================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 1153.87 |==================


Hierarchical INTegration 1.0
Test: FLOAT
QUIPs > Higher Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 203814909.62 |===========================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 243097904.36 |================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 202585759.02 |===========================
FreeBSD 11.0 ................... 93459484.01  |============


Urban Terror 4.2.013
Resolution: 1366 x 768
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
macOS 10.12 ........ 53.93 |======================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . 73.13 |===================================================


Urban Terror 4.2.013
Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Total Frame Time
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
macOS 10.12 ........ MIN: 2.0  AVG: 18.4  MAX: 49.0 
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS . MIN: 1.0  AVG: 13.1  MAX: 43.0 


BLAKE2 20130131
Phoronix Test Suite v6.6.0
Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 4.52 |==============================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 4.36 |=============================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 6.07 |========================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Composite
Mflops > Higher Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 1055.86 |===================================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 903.14  |==============================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 1104.48 |=====================================
FreeBSD 11.0 ................... 580.24  |===================


Primesieve 5.4.2
1e12 Prime Number Generation
Seconds < Lower Is Better
macOS 10.12 .................... 488.28  |=================
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ............. 259.97  |=========
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Clang 3.8 . 511.49  |==================
FreeBSD 11.0 ................... 1063.75 |=====================================