>It won't be long before someone runs a top-of-the-line X86 to Power8 benchmark using FreeBSD.

>Here is such a comparison using linux:

>http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh092914-story02.html

Which benchmarks are linux-to-linux? In the article, it says the SAP SD test is AIX vs Windows, and the SPECjEnterprise test is AIX vs Oracle Linux; and in the linked Oracle benchmarks, it seems to always be IBM/AIX vs Sparc/Linux.