Fedora 21 Through Fedora 23 Performance On An Apple MacBook Air

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora 21 Through Fedora 23 Performance On An Apple MacBook Air

The latest Linux benchmarks I ran this weekend in welcoming the new Phoronix Premium subscribers participating in our Black Friday deal are some MacBook Air benchmarks on Fedora 21, Fedora 22, and Fedora 23...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-21-23-MacBook-Air

[eydee]

It would be interesting to see results from the default OS as well, alongside these of course. I bet all these benchmarks are available for OSX too.

[Michael]

It would be interesting to see results from the default OS as well, alongside these of course. I bet all these benchmarks are available for OSX too.

I have some OS X El Capitan vs. Linux benchmarks coming out in next day or two... Haven't done any El Capitan tests in previous articles, but plenty of other OS X vs. Linux tests on older versions.

[utack]

I have some OS X El Capitan vs. Linux benchmarks coming out in next day or two

Very interesting stuff, especially since they promised better performance.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I have no idea why you bother doing OpenGL tests for OS X. The entire OS and games designed from the big engines have moved to Metal API.

[adakite]

Wondering how "difficult" it could be to install a non-OS X system on such beast? Do you need any hack of the EFI bootloader?
I also wonder how such laptop runs well in terms of Battery life as opposed to the native OS which does a really good job (probably the best in the whole industry on this very task) as well as in terms of OpenCL (in FP64) as these Intel CPU/GPU can handle OCL pretty well as far as I know?

[sarmad]

Strange. In my case the performance of Fedora 23 saw great regression compared to Fedora 20. I just upgraded over the weekend to Fedora 23 jumping straight from F20 and Gnome's animations nose-dived to probably a third of the FPS I saw on F20. F23 is not only slower graphically. Running automated tests on a NodeJS project I'm working on also nose dived from 1 minute to 4 minutes! And this is on an Intel chipset, no special configuration there. The only explanation I have to this is that the kernel team screwed up Sandy Bridge drivers or something. I will try other distros and see.