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.
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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.
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
Ubuntu 11.10:
Processor: Intel Core i5-2415M @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n
OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: intel 2.15.901, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19:
Processor: Intel Core i5-2415M @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 8.0-rc2, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200
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 |==========================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 31.26 |============================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 23.82 |=====================
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 |==========================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 30.77 |=======================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 31.09 |=======================================
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 |==========================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 30.58 |=========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 30.30 |=========================================
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 |=========================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 716 |============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 716 |============================================
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 |=======================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 11236 |==========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 11252 |==========================================
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 |========================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 3952333 |========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 3951333 |========================================
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 |==============================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 414432 |=========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 414871 |=========================================
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 |=========================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 27.52 |======================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 27.32 |======================
PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Mac OS X 10.7.3 ............. 131 |==========================
Mac OS X 10.8 DP1 ........... 131 |==========================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 226 |============================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 216 |==========================================
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 |====================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 6855 |=========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 7188 |===========================================
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 |==========================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 25.54 |=================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 25.60 |=================================
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 |===============
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 68.28 |==========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 67.95 |==========================================
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 |=========================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 128.94 |=========================================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 129.13 |=========================================
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 |===================================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ...... 33.20 |=======================
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 |===================================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ...... 33.20 |=======================
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 |===================================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ...... 33.10 |====================
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 |==========================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 1.00 |==
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 19.98 |==================================
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 |=================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 1.00 |=
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 20.93 |==============
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 |==========================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 19.63 |=============
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 26.18 |=================
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 |=========================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 3.00 |==
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 52.37 |==============================
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 |=========================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 3.00 |==
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 52.37 |==============================
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 |========================================
Ubuntu 11.10 ................ 52.82 |=========================
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 84.17 |=========================================