FreeBSD Performance on MacBook Pro Retina Intel Core i7-3615QM testing with a Apple Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F (262.0.0.0.0 BIOS) and NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1GB on Gentoo/Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. FreeBSD 12.2 KPTI Stock Clang 10.0.1: Processor: Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBookPro10 1 1.0, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 208GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 981MB, Audio: NVIDIA (0x0e1b) HDA, Monitor: Color LCD OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 12.2-RELEASE-p1 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.14, Display Server: X Server 1.20.9, Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, Compiler: Clang 10.0.1, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800 Gentoo 5.10 -miti GCC 10.2 lto-overlay: Processor: Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Apple Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F (262.0.0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1GB (797/2508MHz), Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57786 PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Gentoo/Linux, Kernel: 5.10.2-xanmod1-x86_64-gcc (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.16, Display Server: X Server 1.20.10, Display Driver: NVIDIA 455.45.01, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 + Clang 11.0.0Target: + LLVM 11.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800 BLAKE2 20170307 Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better FreeBSD 12.2 KPTI Stock Clang 10.0.1 ... 750599937895087.62 |================== Gentoo 5.10 -miti GCC 10.2 lto-overlay . 4.65 | DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 Java Test: H2 msec < Lower Is Better FreeBSD 12.2 KPTI Stock Clang 10.0.1 . 4483 |================================== LibRaw 0.20 Post-Processing Benchmark Mpix/sec > Higher Is Better FreeBSD 12.2 KPTI Stock Clang 10.0.1 ... 22.76 |=============================== Gentoo 5.10 -miti GCC 10.2 lto-overlay . 19.13 |========================== rav1e 0.4 Alpha Speed: 6 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better FreeBSD 12.2 KPTI Stock Clang 10.0.1 ... 0.424 |========================= Gentoo 5.10 -miti GCC 10.2 lto-overlay . 0.526 |=============================== rav1e 0.4 Alpha Speed: 10 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better FreeBSD 12.2 KPTI Stock Clang 10.0.1 ... 1.267 |========================== Gentoo 5.10 -miti GCC 10.2 lto-overlay . 1.510 |=============================== x265 3.4 Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better FreeBSD 12.2 KPTI Stock Clang 10.0.1 ... 17.24 |============================== Gentoo 5.10 -miti GCC 10.2 lto-overlay . 17.77 |=============================== Stockfish 12 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better FreeBSD 12.2 KPTI Stock Clang 10.0.1 ... 4593184 |============================= Gentoo 5.10 -miti GCC 10.2 lto-overlay . 4578561 |============================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 128 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better FreeBSD 12.2 KPTI Stock Clang 10.0.1 ... 48.91 |=============================== Gentoo 5.10 -miti GCC 10.2 lto-overlay . 44.03 |============================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better FreeBSD 12.2 KPTI Stock Clang 10.0.1 . 15.96 |================================= m-queens 1.2 Time To Solve Seconds < Lower Is Better FreeBSD 12.2 KPTI Stock Clang 10.0.1 ... 277.29 |============================== Gentoo 5.10 -miti GCC 10.2 lto-overlay . 247.26 |=========================== librsvg Operation: SVG Files To PNG Seconds < Lower Is Better FreeBSD 12.2 KPTI Stock Clang 10.0.1 ... 59.33 |=============================== Gentoo 5.10 -miti GCC 10.2 lto-overlay . 33.47 |=================