macOS 12.1 vs. Ubuntu vs. Clear Linux

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macOS 12.1
December 03 2021
  19 Hours, 5 Minutes
Ubuntu 21.10
December 05 2021
  11 Hours, 44 Minutes
Clear Linux 35390
December 08 2021
  10 Hours, 45 Minutes
Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
December 09 2021
  12 Hours, 41 Minutes
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macOS 12.1 vs. Ubuntu vs. Clear Linux Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article. ,,"macOS 12.1","Ubuntu 21.10","Clear Linux 35390","Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS" Processor,,Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads),Intel Core i7-8700B @ 4.60GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads),Intel Core i7-8700B @ 4.60GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads),Intel Core i7-8700B @ 4.60GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads) Motherboard,,Apple Mac mini,Apple Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C (1715.60.5.0.0 iBridge: 19.16.10645.5.1 0 BIOS),Apple Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C (1715.60.5.0.0 iBridge: 19.16.10645.5.1 0 BIOS),Apple Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C (1715.60.5.0.0 iBridge: 19.16.10645.5.1 0 BIOS) Memory,,2 x 4 GB DDR4-2667MHz,8GB,8GB,8GB Disk,,234GB,251GB APPLE SSD AP0256M,251GB APPLE SSD AP0256M,251GB APPLE SSD AP0256M Graphics,,Intel UHD 630 2GB,Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD 630] (1200MHz),Intel UHD 630 CFL GT2 3GB (1200MHz),Intel UHD 630 (1200MHz) Monitor,,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q Chipset,,,Intel Cannon Lake PCH,Intel Cannon Lake PCH,Intel Cannon Lake PCH Audio,,,Apple Audio Device,Apple Audio Device,Apple Audio Device Network,,,Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57766 PCIe + Broadcom BCM4364 802.11ac,Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57766 PCIe + Broadcom BCM4364 802.11ac,Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57766 PCIe + Broadcom BCM4364 802.11ac OS,,macOS 12.1,Ubuntu 21.10,Clear Linux OS 35390,Ubuntu 20.04 Kernel,,21.2.0 (x86_64),5.13.0-19-generic (x86_64),5.13.13-1070.native (x86_64),5.11.0-27-generic (x86_64) OpenCL,,OpenCL 1.2 (Nov 9 2021 23:27:58),,, Compiler,,GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 11.0.0,GCC 11.2.0,GCC 11.2.1 20211205 releases/gcc-11.2.0-558-g173232a0f6 + Clang 11.1.0 + LLVM 11.1.0,GCC 9.3.0 File-System,,APFS,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160 Desktop,,,GNOME Shell 40.5,GNOME Shell 41.1,GNOME Shell 3.36.9 Display Server,,,X Server + Wayland,X Server 1.20.11,X Server 1.20.11 Vulkan,,,1.2.182,1.2.195,1.2.145 OpenGL,,,,4.6 Mesa 21.3.1, ,,"macOS 12.1","Ubuntu 21.10","Clear Linux 35390","Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS" "Selenium - Benchmark: ARES-6 - Browser: Firefox (ms)",LIB,39.68,46.29,43.19,46.70 "Selenium - Benchmark: StyleBench - Browser: Firefox (Runs / Minute)",HIB,106.3,111,114,111 "Selenium - Benchmark: Jetstream 2 - Browser: Firefox (Score)",HIB,97.213,78.229,90.909,79.232 "Selenium - Benchmark: Speedometer - Browser: Firefox (Runs/min)",HIB,130.6,114,123,113 "Selenium - Benchmark: WASM imageConvolute - Browser: Firefox (ms)",LIB,32.1,33.9,33.6,33.6 "Selenium - Benchmark: WASM collisionDetection - Browser: Firefox (ms)",LIB,507.6,499.1,485.9,494.4 "LZ4 Compression - Compression Level: 1 - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,6586.25,6940.12,7629.82,6942.25 "LZ4 Compression - Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,49.67,49.84,51.28,50.10 "LZ4 Compression - Compression Level: 3 - Decompression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,7601.9,8150.1,8202.1,8134.9 "LZ4 Compression - Compression Level: 9 - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,46.57,48.82,49.37,48.96 "LZ4 Compression - Compression Level: 9 - Decompression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,7585.1,8187.3,8220.9,8177.9 "XZ Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 (sec)",LIB,50.630,44.981,40.623,44.434 "Stress-NG - Test: MMAP (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,71.33,84.21,107.79,84.94 "Stress-NG - Test: Malloc (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,26254104.89,29454364.45,29387341.88,29366261.63 "Stress-NG - Test: CPU Stress (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,17371.53,13856.41,13163.99,11976.47 "Stress-NG - Test: Semaphores ()",,,,, "Stress-NG - Test: Matrix Math (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,34885.31,28854.88,28567.73,28152.09 "Stress-NG - Test: Vector Math (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,30613.51,22690.72,24558.85,20474.76 "Stress-NG - Test: Memory Copying (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,920.89,765.72,801.37,822.27 "Stress-NG - Test: Context Switching (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,2443352.22,1991856.06,1884578.70,2090273.42 "Stress-NG - Test: System V Message Passing (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,8100002.09,4514369.97,4459814.70,4395437.03 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 19, Long Mode - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,15.4,15.5,16.8,11.8 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,17.006,14.469,13.984,15.716 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 19 - Decompression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,2908.2,2858.9,3001.2,2931.8 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 8 - Decompression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,3321.4,3144.3,3493.7,3313.0 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 19 - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,17.9,18.2,19.1,22.1 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 8 - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,99.7,168.7,109.8,192.4 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 3 - Decompression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,3248.8,3050.6,3410.0,3251.9 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,1317.3,1465.4,1549.0,1262.8 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 3, Long Mode - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,1049.1,312.1,1109.8,353.3 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 19, Long Mode - Decompression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,2995.6,2796.2,2996.6,3028.9 "WavPack Audio Encoding - WAV To WavPack (sec)",LIB,14.445,14.407,13.319,14.522 "ASTC Encoder - Preset: Medium (sec)",LIB,5.0067,5.4321,5.0052,5.4376 "ASTC Encoder - Preset: Thorough (sec)",LIB,9.5010,9.9998,9.7511,10.5836 "ASTC Encoder - Preset: Exhaustive (sec)",LIB,87.4865,95.5163,93.3317,105.1013 "LibRaw - Post-Processing Benchmark (Mpix/sec)",HIB,10.34,28.97,47.62,32.60 "WebP Image Encode - Encode Settings: Default (Encode Time - sec)",LIB,1.375,1.435,1.330,1.548 "WebP Image Encode - Encode Settings: Quality 100 (Encode Time - sec)",LIB,2.330,2.269,2.134,2.415 "WebP Image Encode - Encode Settings: Quality 100, Lossless (Encode Time - sec)",LIB,16.208,17.034,16.134,17.093 "WebP Image Encode - Encode Settings: Quality 100, Lossless, Highest Compression (Encode Time - sec)",LIB,37.703,39.429,37.410,38.179 "Xonotic - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,169.9102440,81.1668943,83.0646455,82.2398964 "Xonotic - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,78.1478820,35.9965228,35.4458520,35.8142507 "Xonotic - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,65.8625211,28.8198913,28.3320284,28.5659850 "Xonotic - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate (FPS)",HIB,50.9474760,22.3045021,21.8362513,22.2949270 "QuantLib - (MFLOPS)",HIB,2407.7,2772.7,2938.0,2545.2 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,112.158,125.561,118.860,151.651 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,3326.556625,3838.552883,4426.386258,3792.198342 "Numpy Benchmark - (Score)",HIB,376.86,386.66,422.33,386.05 "LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator - Model: 20k Atoms (ns/day)",HIB,4.619,4.497,4.539,4.481 "LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator - Model: Rhodopsin Protein (ns/day)",HIB,4.740,4.791,5.015,4.878 "NAMD - ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms (days/ns)",LIB,2.80625,2.69147,2.71647,2.75944 "PyHPC Benchmarks - Device: CPU - Backend: Numpy - Project Size: 1048576 - Benchmark: Equation of State (sec)",LIB,0.560,0.351,0.332,0.349 "PyHPC Benchmarks - Device: CPU - Backend: Numpy - Project Size: 1048576 - Benchmark: Isoneutral Mixing (sec)",LIB,0.754,0.670,0.616,0.668 "PyHPC Benchmarks - Device: CPU - Backend: Numpy - Project Size: 4194304 - Benchmark: Equation of State (sec)",LIB,2.451,1.819,1.486,1.639 "PyHPC Benchmarks - Device: CPU - Backend: Numpy - Project Size: 4194304 - Benchmark: Isoneutral Mixing (sec)",LIB,3.161,2.831,2.574,2.824 "PyHPC Benchmarks - Device: CPU - Backend: PyTorch - Project Size: 1048576 - Benchmark: Isoneutral Mixing (sec)",LIB,0.568,0.449,0.553,0.449 "Timed FFmpeg Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,89.991,85.281,87.590,93.086 "Primesieve - 1e12 Prime Number Generation (sec)",LIB,36.986,37.494,38.200,40.380 "Timed Apache Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,27.141,23.244,26.287,24.352 "Stockfish - Total Time (Nodes/s)",HIB,14512457,15461286,16631681,14639219 "7-Zip Compression - Test: Compression Rating (MIPS)",HIB,37225,39458,41404,39084 "7-Zip Compression - Test: Decompression Rating (MIPS)",HIB,36661,36373,36705,35256 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,1310.4,1510.6,1506.5,1379.3 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 3 - Decompression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,3373.2,3335.4,3411.9,3427.5 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 8 - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,100.1,109.3,109.2,108.3 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 8 - Decompression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,3447.9,3426.8,3474.8,3483.9 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 19 - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,17.8,18.7,19.4,18.8 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 19 - Decompression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,2993.8,2996.0,3015.1,3033.7 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 3, Long Mode - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,1071.1,984.6,1073.8,960.2 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 8, Long Mode - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,107.7,126.3,122.0,132.9 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 8, Long Mode - Decompression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,3634.1,3643.9,3723.1,3707.5 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 19, Long Mode - Compression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,15.5,16.3,16.8,16.4 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 19, Long Mode - Decompression Speed (MB/s)",HIB,3106.8,3110.0,3044.6,3083.1 "asmFish - 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth (Nodes/s)",HIB,19633903,19645693,19986894,18246463 "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 4K - Video Preset: Medium (FPS)",HIB,3.98,4.29,4.47,4.09 "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Slow (FPS)",HIB,21.20,21.57,22.86,20.93 "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Medium (FPS)",HIB,21.64,22.34,23.69,21.33 "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 4K - Video Preset: Very Fast (FPS)",HIB,9.22,9.94,12.25,9.78 "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 4K - Video Preset: Ultra Fast (FPS)",HIB,16.48,17.59,21.07,17.28 "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Very Fast (FPS)",HIB,42.56,45.50,56.83,44.73 "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Ultra Fast (FPS)",HIB,75.93,80.74,97.70,79.41 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Rotate (Iterations/min)",HIB,776,794,1050,821 "x265 - Video Input: Bosphorus 4K (FPS)",HIB,8.79,9.23,9.54,9.46 "x265 - Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p (FPS)",HIB,48.33,46.07,47.17,45.35 "C-Ray - Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel (sec)",LIB,153.390,107.866,83.460,110.275 "Chaos Group V-RAY - Mode: CPU (vsamples)",HIB,6399,6392,6200,5805 "Blender - Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,236.49,249.00,245.92,254.52 "Blender - Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,635.97,673.07,675.12,700.58 "Blender - Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,329.26,344.42,342.90,360.25 "Blender - Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,824.09,848.13,832.73,884.27 "rav1e - Speed: 5 (FPS)",HIB,2.018,1.910,1.898,1.873 "rav1e - Speed: 6 (FPS)",HIB,2.706,2.531,2.566,2.473 "rav1e - Speed: 10 (FPS)",HIB,7.448,6.970,7.095,6.848 "libavif avifenc - Encoder Speed: 0 (sec)",LIB,92.487,96.607,81.324,100.457 "libavif avifenc - Encoder Speed: 6 (sec)",LIB,16.322,16.824,15.544,17.254 "libavif avifenc - Encoder Speed: 10 (sec)",LIB,4.714,4.103,2.782,4.166 "libavif avifenc - Encoder Speed: 6, Lossless (sec)",LIB,85.476,92.031,88.205,95.888 "libavif avifenc - Encoder Speed: 10, Lossless (sec)",LIB,7.612,6.950,5.726,7.192 "Embree - Binary: Pathtracer - Model: Crown (FPS)",HIB,6.5964,6.7479,6.7180,6.9151 "Embree - Binary: Pathtracer ISPC - Model: Crown (FPS)",HIB,7.0327,7.0722,7.0848,7.1766 "Embree - Binary: Pathtracer - Model: Asian Dragon (FPS)",HIB,7.8792,7.9942,8.0479,8.0121 "Embree - Binary: Pathtracer ISPC - Model: Asian Dragon (FPS)",HIB,8.5300,8.6837,8.7258,8.5949 "Embree - Binary: Pathtracer ISPC - Model: Asian Dragon Obj (FPS)",HIB,7.3518,7.5329,7.6592,7.4665 "Intel Open Image Denoise - Run: RT.hdr_alb_nrm.3840x2160 (Images / Sec)",HIB,0.23,0.22,0.23,0.22 "Intel Open Image Denoise - Run: RT.ldr_alb_nrm.3840x2160 (Images / Sec)",HIB,0.23,0.22,0.22,0.22 "IndigoBench - Acceleration: CPU - Scene: Bedroom (M samples/s)",HIB,1.193,1.152,1.304,1.125 "IndigoBench - Acceleration: CPU - Scene: Supercar (M samples/s)",HIB,2.829,2.699,2.743,2.638 "LuxCoreRender - Scene: DLSC - Acceleration: CPU (M samples/sec)",HIB,1.39,1.08,1.07,1.08 "Unpacking Firefox - Extracting: firefox-84.0.source.tar.xz (sec)",LIB,59.574,18.601,17.126,18.591 "LuxCoreRender - Scene: Rainbow Colors and Prism - Acceleration: CPU (M samples/sec)",HIB,5.47,4.82,4.75,4.63 "OSPray - Demo: San Miguel - Renderer: SciVis (FPS)",HIB,10.21,10.75,10.75,10.14 "OSPray - Demo: XFrog Forest - Renderer: SciVis (FPS)",HIB,1.69,1.71,1.70,1.68 "OSPray - Demo: San Miguel - Renderer: Path Tracer (FPS)",HIB,0.86,0.88,0.89,0.87 "OSPray - Demo: NASA Streamlines - Renderer: SciVis (FPS)",HIB,12.77,12.77,12.82,12.5 "OSPray - Demo: Magnetic Reconnection - Renderer: SciVis (FPS)",HIB,10.31,10.31,10.64,10.17 "OSPray - Demo: NASA Streamlines - Renderer: Path Tracer (FPS)",HIB,2.63,2.58,2.60,2.54 "OSPray - Demo: Magnetic Reconnection - Renderer: Path Tracer (FPS)",HIB,125,142.86,134.52,129.76 "Appleseed - Scene: Emily (sec)",LIB,564.843623,629.781486,618.859352,654.17118 "Appleseed - Scene: Disney Material (sec)",LIB,313.75924,378.611861,380.734072,384.954366 "Appleseed - Scene: Material Tester (sec)",LIB,313.924991,354.400143,346.766364,369.655707 "PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,642911,611864,1068652,579849 "SQLite Speedtest - Timed Time - Size 1,000 (sec)",LIB,79.100,64.189,60.271,63.581 "Git - Time To Complete Common Git Commands (sec)",LIB,71.552,52.237,52.330,49.753 "PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,1298,975,943,947 "Geometric Mean Of All Test Results - Result Composite - macOS 12.1 vs. Ubuntu vs. Clear Linux (Geometric Mean)",HIB,54.242,53.921,57.223,53.188 "Number Of First Place Finishes - Wins - 123 Tests (Wins)",,38,11,64,10 "Number Of Last Place Finishes - Losses - 123 Tests (Losses)",,55,14,6,48