Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris i7-3960X Scaling Performance
With the TTSIOD 3D Renderer benchmark, Solaris 11 was the clear frontrunner and did a much better job scaling the performance than the Linux or FreeBSD operating systems.
With VP8 video encoding using libvpx, the performance drops off when Hyper Threading is on to provide for twelve logical cores.
Lastly, with x264 there is not much of a difference until the 12-thread configuration where Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 9 falls behind.
To see the original non-normalized results and other data, visit OpenBenchmarking.org.
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