FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks
The newly released FreeBSD 14.1 was delivering great out-of-the-box performance on this AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-core / 128-thread workstation.
In some of the workloads there was relatively little difference between the tested operating systems besides the minor impact of compiler variations and other differences.
NetBSD 10.0 was much slower than the rest for the SQLite embedded database benchmark.
The packaged PHP on each operating system varies but in any event here is a look at the out-of-the-box performance.
FreeBSD 14.1 overall was the best BSD performer among the BSDs tested on this AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation from System76. FreeBSD was doing well in both the kernel micro-benchmarks as well as in a variety of other workloads tested. It was refreshing to see how well the new FreeBSD 14.1 was performing and competing with the likes of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and CentOS Stream 9. Those wishing to see even more benchmarks form this Threadripper 7980X BSD/Linux comparison can do so via this result page.
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