OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD Performance Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. OpenBSD 6.4: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 3.40GHz (36 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A, Memory: 16128MB, Disk: 143GB OS: OpenBSD, Kernel: 6.4 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server, Compiler: Clang 6.0.0, File-System: ffs DragonFlyBSD 5.2: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz (36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16128MB, Disk: NVME-PCIe, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection PCH_SPT_I219_V2 7.6.2 OS: DragonFly, Kernel: 5.2-RELEASE (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.1, File-System: hammer2 DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz (36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16128MB, Disk: NVME-PCIe, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection PCH_SPT_I219_V2 7.6.2 OS: DragonFly, Kernel: 5.3-DEVELOPMENT (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.1, File-System: hammer2 FreeBSD 11.2: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz (36 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16128MB, Disk: Generic NVMe Device, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X, Audio: Intel Kabylake-H HDA, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.6.1-k OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 11.2-RELEASE (x86_64), Compiler: Clang 6.0.0 (SVN 326565), File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz (36 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16128MB, Disk: Generic NVMe Device, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X, Audio: Intel Kabylake-H HDA, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 12.0-BETA2 (x86_64), Compiler: Clang 6.0.1 (SVN 335540), File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 13.22 |======================= DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 22.51 |======================================= DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 12.39 |====================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 25.13 |============================================ FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 22.75 |======================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 47211 |== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 794710 |========================== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 1272490 |========================================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 1084724 |==================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 1013219 |================================= BlogBench 1.0 Test: Write Final Score > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 793 |==== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 2107 |=========== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 715 |==== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 4683 |========================= FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 8452 |============================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 184 |===== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 360 |========= DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 321 |======== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 1713 |============================================= FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 1696 |============================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 17.92 |=== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 39.38 |======= DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 35.11 |======= FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 227.04 |=========================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 213.66 |======================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 32.22 |= DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 275.49 |=========== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 337.54 |============== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 893.33 |==================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 1030.59 |========================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 981 |======== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 1154 |========== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 2894 |======================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 5357 |============================================= FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 4705 |======================================== PolyBench-C 4.2 Test: Covariance Computation Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 5.38 |===================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 6.48 |============================================= DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 6.50 |============================================= PolyBench-C 4.2 Test: Correlation Computation Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 5.51 |====================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 6.48 |============================================= DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 6.49 |============================================= PolyBench-C 4.2 Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 3.15 |======================================= DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 3.65 |============================================= DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 3.64 |============================================= FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 2.90 |==================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 3.37 |========================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ........ 20.60 |=================================================== FreeBSD 11.2 ....... 14.16 |=================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 . 14.98 |===================================== Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 14204 |========================================= DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 12159 |=================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 9683 |============================ FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 15392 |============================================ FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 13021 |===================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 711 |============================================ DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 544 |================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 529 |================================= FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 740 |============================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 596 |===================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 127 |========================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 109 |==================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 108 |==================================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 139 |============================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 113 |===================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 333 |=========================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 268 |=================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 271 |=================================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 357 |============================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 236 |============================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 786 |============================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 597 |=================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 596 |=================================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 789 |============================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 665 |======================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 1176 |=========================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 811 |============================== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 742 |=========================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 1231 |============================================= FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 1006 |===================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 1131 |=========================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 937 |==================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 928 |=================================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 1184 |============================================= FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 962 |===================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 51333 |============================================ DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 4331 |==== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 4458 |==== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 84.23 |============================================ DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 44.21 |======================= DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 49.07 |========================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 60.76 |================================ FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 59.64 |=============================== AOBench Size: 2048 x 2048 - Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 108.45 |=========================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 80.67 |================================ DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 78.84 |=============================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 37.40 |=============== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 46.24 |================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 249 |======================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 288 |============================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 285 |============================================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 227 |==================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 278 |============================================ dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 47.52 |============================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 68.67 |============================================ DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 53.50 |================================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 45.39 |============================= FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 43.98 |============================ Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 . 4.61 |=========================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 9.94 |============ DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 35.76 |============================================ DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 36.11 |============================================ FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 9.41 |=========== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 10.85 |============= Ogg Encoding 1.3.3 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 . 6.70 |=========================================================== Opus Codec Encoding 1.0.1 WAV, Opus Encode, Opus Decode Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 . 8.96 |=========================================================== Sample Pi Program Seconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 4.09 |======================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 4.06 |======================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 3.79 |===================================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 3.43 |================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 4.58 |============================================= OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 4435 |============================================ DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 4512 |============================================= DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 4519 |============================================= FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 4173 |========================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 4175 |========================================== System Libxml2 Parsing Filesize: 3 MB ms < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 2827 |======================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 3214 |============================================= DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 3161 |============================================ FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 2635 |===================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 2767 |======================================= libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.3 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ........ 165 |==================================================== FreeBSD 11.2 ....... 169 |===================================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 . 140 |============================================ PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 3359 |============================================= DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 1974 |========================== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 1890 |========================= FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 1753 |======================= FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 1962 |========================== Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 Test: FLOAT QUIPs > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 378322663 |======================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 332732136 |=================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 317892067 |================================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 332439671 |=================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 266402997 |============================ Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 Test: DOUBLE QUIPs > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 931855651 |======================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 769143133 |================================= DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 720802800 |=============================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 877638468 |====================================== FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 709033272 |============================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better OpenBSD 6.4 ............... 350216 |=========================================== DragonFlyBSD 5.2 .......... 215841 |=========================== DragonFlyBSD 5.3 20181029 . 218676 |=========================== FreeBSD 11.2 .............. 238635 |============================= FreeBSD 12.0-Beta2 ........ 238943 |=============================