macOS 10.13.1 vs. Ubuntu 17.10 Intel Core i7-6700HQ testing with a Apple Mac-A5C67F76ED83108C on macOS and Ubuntu Linux. Tests for a future article. macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode: Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Memory: 2 x 8 GB LPDDR3-2133MHz, Disk: 234GB, Graphics: Intel HD 530 + AMD Radeon Pro 450 1536MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: macOS 10.13.1, Kernel: 17.2.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.16.4, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.29) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 7.3, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800 Ubuntu 17.10: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700HQ @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Apple Mac-A5C67F76ED83108C, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM0256L, Graphics: AMD Radeon 2048MB, Audio: Cirrus Logic Generic, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom Limited BCM43602 802.11ac Wireless LAN SoC OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.2 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.61, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800 Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 Global Illumination + Image Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 2.93 |================================================= Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 2.82 |=============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 108.50 |========= Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 581.20 |=============================================== Stockfish 2014-11-26 Total Time ms < Lower Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 4388 |================================================= Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 4025 |============================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 33.31 |================================================ Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 26.71 |====================================== TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 1080591 |============================================ Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 1125551 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 936.24 |=============================================== Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 941.32 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 989.91 |=============================================== Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 745.35 |=================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 656.81 |=============================================== Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 610.92 |============================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 130.89 |=============================================== Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 131.73 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 115.37 |=============================================== Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 114.68 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 565.84 |=============================================== Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 508.80 |========================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 2988 |========================== Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 5725 |================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 592.32 |=========== Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 2415.01 |============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 77.79 |======= Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 488.96 |=============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 674.42 |================================= Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 965.22 |=============================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Write Final Score > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 1883 |=== Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 30583 |================================================ BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 730552 |=============================================== Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 608746 |======================================= SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better macOS 10.13.1 - Xcode . 4.52 |== Ubuntu 17.10 .......... 119.77 |===============================================