Apple MacBook Pro Retina - OS X 10.7.4 vs. OS X 10.8 Performance
Benchmarks of performance comparing Apple OS X 10.7 Lion vs. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on the mid-2012 Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display and Intel Core i7 2.3GHz Ivy Bridge processor with switchable Intel HD 4000 / NVIDIA Kepler graphics. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com for a future article.


Apple MacBook Pro Retina: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: 2 x 4096 DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M + Intel HD 4000 1024MB, Monitor: Color LCD

	OS: Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E2068), Kernel: 11.4.1 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.10.6, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Clang 4.0 + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.4, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800

Apple OS X 10.8: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: 2 x 4096 DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB, Monitor: Color LCD

	OS: OS X 10.8 (12A269), Kernel: 12.0.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Clang 4.0 + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.4, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800


Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 26.78 |=============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 27.00 |=============================================


Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 26.38 |============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 26.85 |=============================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 219.47 |======================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 252.20 |============================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 140.90 |========================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 254.33 |============================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 2880 x 1800
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 131.93 |=======================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 249.80 |============================================


Urban Terror 4.1
Resolution: 2880 x 1800
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 50.53 |=======================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 97.83 |=============================================


Warsow 1.0
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 47.83 |=============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 48.30 |=============================================


Warsow 1.0
Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 47.83 |=============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 47.53 |=============================================


Warsow 1.0
Resolution: 2880 x 1800
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 48.02 |=============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 48.40 |=============================================


X-Plane 9.45
Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 105 |===============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 106 |===============================================


X-Plane 9.45
Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 70 |==============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 73 |================================================


X-Plane 9.45
Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2880 x 1800
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 62 |===============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 63 |================================================


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 144.02 |============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 138.95 |==========================================


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 140.91 |============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 135.73 |==========================================


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 135.20 |============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 135.64 |============================================


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 72.17 |=============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 71.42 |=============================================


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 60.15 |=============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 52.71 |=======================================


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 54.96 |=============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 52.48 |===========================================


Fhourstones 3.1
Complex Connect-4 Solving
Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 10050.37 |==========================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 9837.93  |=========================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 174.11 |============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 170.99 |===========================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Copy
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 14728.28 |==========================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 14146.06 |========================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Scale
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 14360.13 |==========================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 14104.84 |=========================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Triad
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 16235.81 |==========================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 16005.25 |=========================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Add
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 15932.32 |==========================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 15678.64 |=========================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Composite
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 1282.91 |===========================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 1273.15 |===========================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Monte Carlo
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 436.33 |============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 435.32 |============================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 295.33 |============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 284.94 |==========================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 1848.07 |===========================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 1820.38 |==========================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 2426.29 |===========================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 2403.70 |===========================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 1408.52 |===========================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 1408.43 |===========================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 263.11 |========================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 286.08 |============================================


OpenSSL 1.0.0e
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 27.70 |=============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 27.40 |=============================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 1645 |=============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 1690 |==============================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11
TPC-B Transactions Per Second
TPS > Higher Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 4268.20 |===========================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 4179.20 |==========================================


Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 38.34 |=============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 33.18 |=======================================


Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 30.07 |===========================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 31.62 |=============================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 50.11 |=============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 49.95 |=============================================


Tachyon 0.98.9
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Apple MacBook Pro Retina . 14.84 |=============================================
Apple OS X 10.8 .......... 14.79 |=============================================