macOS 10.13 vs. Windows 10 vs. Clear/Fedora/openSUSE/Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks

[phoronix]

Phoronix: macOS 10.13 vs. Windows 10 vs. Clear/Fedora/openSUSE/Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks

When running tests this week on a MacBook Pro for the Dota 2 Vulkan/OpenGL cross-OS performance I also took the opportunity as part of the fun benchmarking week for celebrating the Phoronix 14th birthday by running a broader set of system benchmarks across the latest macOS 10.13 High Sierra, Windows 10 Pro, and various Linux distributions. Here are those CPU/system performance benchmark results.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=26409

[tildearrow]

That color for the macOS bar... At least the text should be black.

Also I don't like how the real Ubuntu 18.04 is slower than its WSL version. It will give Windows users a false impression of how the OS really performs... no X264

[Jahimself]

Clear linux again leading the way. Is this distro completly open source? I hope they will also work on optimising ryzen cpu ^^

[Michael]

Clear linux again leading the way. Is this distro completly open source? I hope they will also work on optimising ryzen cpu ^^

It is open-source on GitHub.... If you search on Phoronix.com, you can find Clear Linux benchmarks already on Ryzen CPUs...

[tessio]

Fedora is really fast too..

[Guest]

While it's not surprising macOS and Windows aren't performance demons, Ubuntu should change kernel configuration. It's far from being optimal.

[GruenSein]

The GraphicsMagick performance was the slowest on macOS due to their default Xcode compiler stack relying upon LLVM/Clang that supports OpenMP these days but still isn't as well tuned as OpenMP on GCC.

Not sure if that is actually true. Last year, I switched to vanilla LLVM since Apple's fork had OpenMP disabled.

[-MacNuke-]

Clear linux again leading the way. Is this distro completly open source? I hope they will also work on optimising ryzen cpu ^^

This distribution is directly from Intel.... quess what they will not do...

[treba]

I'm really impressed by fedoras performance. Given that it uses selinux, I remember it to be slower than ubuntu. It's my prefered desktop system for a couple of years now and it's getting better and better

[Charlie68]

I'm not a big fan of benchmarks, they often offer a distorted view of the reality that the user then finds. However I am always curious ... and I am quite satisfied with the decent behavior of Tumbleweed in the benchmarks.