macOS 10.12.6 vs. Ubuntu 17.04 Benchmarks

MacOS secures a small lead with the TSCP chess benchmark.

Mac's use of the LLVM Clang compiler by default leads it to being quicker at code compilation.

While Linux was much faster with the C-Ray ray-tracer.

Mac's Xcode/Clang default setup still appears to have a botched OpenMP configuration.

Close results in Stockfish.

Linux was leading in the MP3/FLAC audio encoding benchmarks.

That rounds up this quick macOS vs. Ubuntu comparison. I'm working on a more thorough macOS vs. Linux comparison hopefully in the weeks ahead as I should be getting remote access to some more Mac systems. So for now take these results as you wish. Unfortunately no power results to share either as the macOS system_profiler has been reporting botched power outputs.