test Intel Core i7 testing with a Apple MacBook Pro and AMD Radeon Pro 555 + Intel HD 630 2GB on macOS 10.13.6 via the Phoronix Test Suite. T480 hw.smt=0: Processor: Intel Core i7-8550U @ 0.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO ThinkPad T480, Memory: 7936MB, Disk: 60GB OS: OpenBSD, Kernel: 6.3 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 20070719 + Clang 6.0.0, File-System: ffs test2: Processor: Intel Core i7-8550U @ 0.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO ThinkPad T480, Memory: 7936MB, Disk: 60GB OS: OpenBSD, Kernel: 6.3 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 20070719 + Clang 6.0.0, File-System: ffs T480 hw.smt=1: Processor: Intel Core i7-8550U @ 0.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO ThinkPad T480, Memory: 7936MB, Disk: 60GB OS: OpenBSD, Kernel: 6.3 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 20070719 + Clang 6.0.0, File-System: ffs test8: Processor: Intel Core i5-8250U @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: HP 83B2 (Q78 Ver. 01.04.00 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 256GB SAMSUNG MZVLB256HAHQ-000H1, Graphics: Intel UHD 620 3GB (1100MHz), Audio: Conexant CX8200, Monitor: Acer CB271HK, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 OS: ManjaroLinux 18.0.3, Kernel: 4.20.11-1-MANJARO (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.15.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.3, Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20181127, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 5760x2160 MacBook Pro 2017: Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Memory: 2 x 8 GB LPDDR3-2133MHz, Disk: 234GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon Pro 555 + Intel HD 630 2GB, Monitor: C OS: macOS 10.13.6, Kernel: 17.7.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Compiler: Apple LLVM 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 10.1, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better T480 hw.smt=0 .... 1262 |=============== T480 hw.smt=1 .... 1240 |=============== test8 ............ 4438 |====================================================== MacBook Pro 2017 . 2337 |============================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better T480 hw.smt=0 .... 1841 |==================================================== T480 hw.smt=1 .... 1915 |====================================================== test8 ............ 1910 |====================================================== MacBook Pro 2017 . 1824 |=================================================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better T480 hw.smt=0 .... 56.19 |===================================================== T480 hw.smt=1 .... 54.95 |==================================================== test8 ............ 48.50 |============================================== MacBook Pro 2017 . 42.00 |======================================== Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better T480 hw.smt=0 . 4.76 |========================================================= T480 hw.smt=1 . 4.70 |======================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better T480 hw.smt=0 . 31.21 |================================================= T480 hw.smt=1 . 30.75 |================================================= test8 ......... 35.35 |======================================================== FFmpeg 3.4.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better T480 hw.smt=0 .... 7.04 |========================================== T480 hw.smt=1 .... 6.77 |========================================= test8 ............ 9.02 |====================================================== MacBook Pro 2017 . 6.28 |====================================== OpenSSL 1.1.0f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better T480 hw.smt=0 . 639 |================================================== T480 hw.smt=1 . 653 |=================================================== test8 ......... 748 |========================================================== PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better T480 hw.smt=0 .... 5450 |====================================================== T480 hw.smt=1 .... 5468 |====================================================== test8 ............ 1376 |============== MacBook Pro 2017 . 1756 |=================