Haswell Mac Mini Ubuntu 17.04 vs. macOS Sierra GFX Comparison tests for a future article. Ubuntu 17.04: Processor: Intel Core i5-4278U @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB APPLE HDD HTS541, Graphics: Intel Haswell 1536MB (1100MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM57766 Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom Limited BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.3, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2 Git: Processor: Intel Core i5-4278U @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB APPLE HDD HTS541, Graphics: Intel Haswell 1536MB (1100MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM57766 Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom Limited BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.12.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170605, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Clear Linux 15730: Processor: Intel Core i5-4278U @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB APPLE HDD HTS541, Graphics: Intel Haswell 1536MB (1100MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM57766 Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom Limited BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Clear Linux 15730, Kernel: 4.11.3-355.native (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.24.2, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel, Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 7.1.1 20170509 + Clang 4.0.0 + LLVM 4.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 macOS 10.12.5: 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: DELL P2415Q OS: macOS 10.12.5, Kernel: 16.6.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 8.3.3, File-System: MS-DOS FAT32, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 .............................. 48.46 |============================ Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2 Git . 48.54 |============================ macOS 10.12.5 ............................. 23.83 |============== Portal Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 .............................. 90.22 |============================ Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2 Git . 91.10 |============================ macOS 10.12.5 ............................. 23.98 |======= Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 .............................. 41.43 |==================== Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2 Git . 58.74 |============================ Clear Linux 15730 ......................... 51.84 |========================= macOS 10.12.5 ............................. 28.26 |============= Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 .............................. 50.53 |====================== Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2 Git . 51.12 |====================== Clear Linux 15730 ......................... 65.77 |============================ macOS 10.12.5 ............................. 31.09 |============= Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 .............................. 122.91 |=========================== Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2 Git . 122.56 |=========================== Clear Linux 15730 ......................... 119.97 |========================== macOS 10.12.5 ............................. 67.38 |=============== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 .............................. 35.61 |====================== Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2 Git . 42.12 |========================== Clear Linux 15730 ......................... 45.62 |============================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 .............................. MIN: 4.0 AVG: 29.9 MAX: 67.0 Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2 Git . MIN: 4.0 AVG: 29.9 MAX: 68.0 Clear Linux 15730 ......................... MIN: 4.0 AVG: 29.1 MAX: 65.0 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 .............................. 33.67 |============================ Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2 Git . 34.00 |============================ Clear Linux 15730 ......................... 34.13 |============================ Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 .............................. 40.87 |========================== Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2 Git . 44.23 |============================ macOS 10.12.5 ............................. 35.10 |====================== Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 .............................. 11.83 |======================== Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2 Git . 11.80 |======================== macOS 10.12.5 ............................. 13.87 |============================