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.

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