OS X 10.9 Mavericks MacBook Air Haswell Intel Core i5 testing with a Apple MacBook Air and Intel HD 5000 1024MB on OS X 10.8.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. OS X 10.8.5: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 1.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Air, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 2048 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128F, Graphics: Intel HD 5000 1024MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.8.5, Kernel: 12.5.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 5.0.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 OS X 10.9.0: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 1.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Air, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 2048 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 121GB APPLE SSD SD0128F, Graphics: Intel HD 5000 1024MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.9, Kernel: 13.0.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 5.0.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Windows 8.1: Processor: Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Rampage III GENE, Chipset: Intel X58, Memory: 4096 + 4096 + 4096 + 12 + 12 + 12 DDR3-533MHz, Disk: 239GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 OS: Windows NT, Kernel: 6.2 (x86_64) Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 184.67 |======================================================== OS X 10.9.0 . 187.19 |========================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 68.70 |======================================================== OS X 10.9.0 . 71.04 |========================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 17.29 |======= OS X 10.9.0 . 32.86 |============= Windows 8.1 . 146.53 |========================================================= Unvanquished Alpha 17 Resolution: 1366 x 768 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 39.73 |=========================== Windows 8.1 . 86.20 |========================================================== Unvanquished Alpha 17 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . MIN: 16.0 AVG: 24.6 MAX: 73.0 Windows 8.1 . MIN: 8.0 AVG: 11.4 MAX: 24.0 Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1366 x 768 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 53.73 |========================================================== Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 18.7 MAX: 81.0 Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 100.08 |========================== OS X 10.9.0 . 100.13 |========================== Windows 8.1 . 221.14 |========================================================= Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 44.11 |============== OS X 10.9.0 . 45.73 |============== Windows 8.1 . 180.13 |========================================================= Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 36.69 |============= OS X 10.9.0 . 38.22 |============= Windows 8.1 . 163.03 |========================================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 46.49 |========================================================== OS X 10.9.0 . 45.84 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 414.01 |========================================================= OS X 10.9.0 . 384.24 |===================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 194.70 |========================================================= OS X 10.9.0 . 188.17 |======================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 1782.83 |======================================================== OS X 10.9.0 . 1748.15 |======================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 1691.90 |======================================================== OS X 10.9.0 . 1678.54 |======================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 1118.23 |======================================================== OS X 10.9.0 . 1117.71 |======================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 816.52 |========================================================= OS X 10.9.0 . 813.88 |========================================================= 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 6747 |=========================================================== OS X 10.9.0 . 6512 |========================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 85.37 |========================================================== OS X 10.9.0 . 85.70 |========================================================== Primesieve 4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 503.03 |========================================================= OS X 10.9.0 . 503.61 |========================================================= Windows 8.1 . 124.81 |============== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 22.90 |========================================================== OS X 10.9.0 . 22.90 |==========================================================