OS X 10.9 Mavericks MacBook Retina Pro Intel Core i7 testing with a Apple MacBook Pro and Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB on OS X 10.8.5 versus OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel. OS X 10.8.5: Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB, Monitor: Thunderbolt Display 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: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 OS X 10.9: Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024MB, Monitor: Thunderbolt Display 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: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 telemac OS X 10.10: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SD0256F, Graphics: Intel Iris 1536MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.10, Kernel: 14.0.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Compiler: Apple LLVM 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on LLVM 3.4svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 5.1.1, File-System: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 29.84 |========================= OS X 10.9 .......... 36.06 |============================== telemac OS X 10.10 . 61.28 |=================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 26.95 |====================== OS X 10.9 .......... 34.48 |============================ telemac OS X 10.10 . 61.98 |=================================================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 137.47 |================================================== OS X 10.9 .......... 137.23 |================================================== telemac OS X 10.10 . 135.87 |================================================= OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 124.77 |================================================= OS X 10.9 .......... 128.40 |================================================== telemac OS X 10.10 . 97.43 |====================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 132.92 |================================================== OS X 10.9 .......... 132.14 |================================================== telemac OS X 10.10 . 99.29 |===================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 132.61 |================================================== OS X 10.9 .......... 130.91 |================================================= telemac OS X 10.10 . 79.31 |============================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 58.67 |=================================================== OS X 10.9 .......... 53.42 |============================================== telemac OS X 10.10 . 46.92 |========================================= Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 54.77 |=================================================== OS X 10.9 .......... 43.08 |======================================== telemac OS X 10.10 . 36.78 |================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 47.01 |=================================================== OS X 10.9 .......... 42.63 |============================================== telemac OS X 10.10 . 41.02 |============================================= Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 43.36 |=================================================== OS X 10.9 .......... 35.20 |========================================= telemac OS X 10.10 . 32.49 |====================================== BLAKE2 20121223 Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.4 Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 4.75 |========================================= OS X 10.9 .......... 4.62 |======================================== telemac OS X 10.10 . 6.02 |==================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 495.61 |================================================== OS X 10.9 .......... 450.03 |============================================= telemac OS X 10.10 . 458.51 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 288.64 |================================================= OS X 10.9 .......... 293.28 |================================================== telemac OS X 10.10 . 239.23 |========================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 2211.92 |================================================= OS X 10.9 .......... 2215.63 |================================================= telemac OS X 10.10 . 1863.73 |========================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 1897.44 |===================================== OS X 10.9 .......... 1899.11 |===================================== telemac OS X 10.10 . 2525.65 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 1404.18 |================================================= OS X 10.9 .......... 1404.55 |================================================= telemac OS X 10.10 . 1249.55 |============================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 577.17 |============================== OS X 10.9 .......... 576.79 |============================== telemac OS X 10.10 . 952.86 |================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 16350 |======================================================= OS X 10.9 ... 17239 |========================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 38.84 |=============================== OS X 10.9 .......... 38.41 |============================== telemac OS X 10.10 . 64.93 |=================================================== Primesieve 4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........ 427.97 |================================================ OS X 10.9 .......... 423.21 |================================================ telemac OS X 10.10 . 442.55 |================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 27.50 |========================================================== OS X 10.9 ... 27.60 |==========================================================