Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion 12A128p Performance benchmarks of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion using the Developer Preview 1 build 12A128p. Testing being done from a 2011 Apple Mac Mini with Intel Sandy Bridge processor. This is still some early Mac OS X 10.8 benchmarking of performance with more coming once OS X 10.8 is officially released in summer of 2012. Mac OS X 10.7.3: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 6, Memory: 2 x 1 GB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 288MB, Monitor: Acer P243W OS: Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50b), Kernel: 11.3.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.10.3, Display Driver: intel, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 3.0, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Mac OS X 10.8 DP1: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 6, Memory: 2 x 1 GB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302, Graphics: 288MB, Monitor: Acer P243W OS: OS X 10.8 (12A128p), Kernel: 12.0.0 (x86_64), Display Driver: 288mb, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 87.20 |==================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 82.18 |================================================= OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1600 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 74.27 |==================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 73.17 |=================================================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 72.20 |==================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 70.17 |=================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 61.79 |================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 64.89 |==================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1600 x 1200 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 61.88 |==================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 25.13 |===================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 22.01 |=============================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 24.40 |==================================================== Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 85.80 |==================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 84.73 |=================================================== Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 1600 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 74.93 |==================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 73.27 |=================================================== Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 74.10 |==================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 72.57 |=================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 128.36 |=================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 128.10 |=================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 24.03 |=================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 24.63 |==================================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 32.27 |==================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 32.15 |==================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 6117 |===================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 6076 |===================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 131 |====================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 131 |====================================================== Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 52.54 |==================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 51.52 |=================================================== TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 308490 |=================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 308146 |=================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 3939000 |================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 3941333 |================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 6054 |===================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 6059 |===================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 413 |====================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 413 |====================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 30.41 |================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 31.40 |==================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 33.26 |==================================================== Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 32.99 |==================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Mac OS X 10.7.3 ... 37.12 |========================================= Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 . 47.11 |====================================================