Mac OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 Benchmarks

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. Performance compared to Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 from the same Mac Mini setup. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel.

Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the Phoronix Test Suite by running the command: phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1202195-BY-AMACOSX1090
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Mac OS X 10.7.3
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Mac OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 Benchmarks Suite 1.0.0 System Test suite extracted from Mac OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 Benchmarks. pts/compress-7zip-1.6.0 Compress Speed Test pts/c-ray-1.1.0 Total Time pts/compilebench-1.0.0 INITIAL_CREATE Test: Initial Create pts/compilebench-1.0.0 COMPILE Test: Compile pts/compilebench-1.0.0 READ_COMPILED_TREE Test: Read Compiled Tree pts/john-the-ripper-1.2.0 TRADITIONAL_DES_MANY_SALTS Test: Traditional DES pts/john-the-ripper-1.2.0 MD5 Test: MD5 pts/john-the-ripper-1.2.0 BLOWFISH Test: Blowfish pts/nexuiz-1.6.0 +vid_width 1280 +vid_height 1024 +r_hdr -nosound Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - HDR: No - Sound: Off pts/nexuiz-1.6.0 +vid_width 1600 +vid_height 1200 +r_hdr -nosound Resolution: 1600 x 1200 - HDR: No - Sound: Off pts/nexuiz-1.6.0 +vid_width 1920 +vid_height 1080 +r_hdr -nosound Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off pts/openarena-1.4.0 +set r_customWidth 1280 +set r_customHeight 1024 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 pts/openarena-1.4.0 +set r_customWidth 1600 +set r_customHeight 1200 Resolution: 1600 x 1200 pts/openarena-1.4.0 +set r_customWidth 1920 +set r_customHeight 1080 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pts/openssl-1.6.0 RSA 4096-bit Performance pts/postmark-1.0.0 Disk Transaction Performance pts/sudokut-1.0.0 Total Time pts/mafft-1.3.0 Multiple Sequence Alignment pts/tscp-1.0.0 AI Chess Performance pts/warsow-1.2.0 +vid_customwidth 1280 +vid_customheight 1024 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 pts/warsow-1.2.0 +vid_customwidth 1600 +vid_customheight 1200 Resolution: 1600 x 1200 pts/warsow-1.2.0 +vid_customwidth 1920 +vid_customheight 1080 Resolution: 1920 x 1080