Apple M2 vs. AMD Rembrandt vs. Intel Alder Lake Linux Benchmarks

Before getting to the multi-system benchmarks, first up were some initial benchmarks for gauging the macOS vs. Asahi Linux performance on the very same MacBook Air using the default compilers on each OS and other system defaults.

Considering the early state of Asahi Linux on the M2, it came as a surprise to find Asahi Linux quite competitive in many of the CPU benchmarks. In some tests Asahi Linux won, possibly due to compiler differences and other factors, but even when losing it tended to still be in the same ballpark as macOS.

OpenJDK Java workloads were one of the areas where macOS 12.5 was performing a heck of a lot better.

But as you can see across many different workloads, Asahi Linux on the Apple M2 was in surprisingly good shape against macOS 12.5 when originally thinking power management issues or other problems could plague the M2 on Linux.