Trying DragonFlyBSD & FreeBSD On The Intel Core i9 9900K With ASUS PRIME Z390-A

Stockfish built by the default Clang compiler on FreeBSD 12 was a little bit slower than the other operating systems utilizing the GCC compiler stack by default.

In a quick Node.js benchmark, Fedora Workstation 29 secured a victory. DragonFlyBSD 5.3 on this 16-thread Intel CPU was just behind the Linux distributions while FreeBSD 12.0 was further back in last place.

Basic Gzip file compression was faster on the Linux distributions over the BSDs. Clear Linux by far was the fastest due to its aggressive optimizations and other changes around threading, etc, for a very speedy out-of-the-box experience.

For FFmpeg video encoding, the Linux distributions had a slight advantage over the two tested BSDs.