FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks
First up was the libraw RAW image library. This image processing benchmark saw CentOS Stream 9 performing similar to FreeBSD 14.1 and NetBSD 10. Meanwhile DragonFlyBSD 6.4 was much slower than the rest and then Ubuntu 24.04 LTS sprung out in first place.
The x265 results were surprisingly quite a mix between these Linux/BSD operating systems presumably due to power management / CPU frequency scaling differences as well as the default compilers. NetBSD and CentOS Stream struggled while both DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD managed to outperform Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for this x265 4K video encoding.
Even with 1080p content, the FreeBSD 14.1 release was delivering around 22% higher performance out-of-the-box than Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on this Threadripper 7980X workstation.
FreeBSD 14.1 was performing surprisingly well in other demanding workloads too like the C-Ray multi-threaded ray-tracer.