Apple Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Performance benchmarks of Apple Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Testing from Developer Preview 1 build 12A128p with the Darwin 12.0 64-bit kernel it uses and the latest Xcode. More Mac OS X 10.8 benchmarks to come when its properly released. Testing from a mid-2011 Intel Sandy Bridge Core i5 Apple Mac Mini.
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Apple Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Monitor Audio Network OS Kernel Display Driver Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Desktop Display Server OpenGL Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores) Apple Mac mini Intel 6 2 x 1 GB DDR3-1333MHz 500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302 Intel HD 3000 288MB Acer P243W OS X 10.8 (12A128p) 12.0.0 (x86_64) intel Xcode 4.2.1 Journaled HFS+ 1920x1200 Intel Core i5-2415M @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores) Apple Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1 Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM 2048MB 500GB Hitachi HTS54505 Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+) Cirrus Logic CS4206 Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-16-generic (x86_64) Unity 5.4.0 X Server 1.11.3 intel 2.17.0 3.0 Mesa 8.0-rc2 GCC 4.6 ext4 OpenBenchmarking.org System Details - Mac OS X 10.8: Python 2.7.2. - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.2+. Compiz was running on this system.
Apple Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion nexuiz: 1920 x 1080 - No - Off urbanterror: 800 x 600 nexuiz: 1600 x 1200 - No - Off warsow: 1680 x 1050 nexuiz: 1680 x 1050 - No - Off nexuiz: 1600 x 1200 - No - On nexuiz: 1400 x 1050 - No - Off nexuiz: 1680 x 1050 - No - On nexuiz: 1280 x 1024 - No - Off nexuiz: 1400 x 1050 - No - On nexuiz: 1280 x 1024 - No - On nexuiz: 1024 x 768 - No - Off nexuiz: 1024 x 768 - No - On urbanterror: 1024 x 768 nexuiz: 1920 x 1080 - No - On tscp: AI Chess Performance warsow: 1280 x 1024 urbanterror: 1280 x 1024 warsow: 800 x 600 warsow: 1024 x 768 urbanterror: 1920 x 1080 urbanterror: 1600 x 1200 urbanterror: 1680 x 1050 urbanterror: 1400 x 1050 scimark2: Composite scimark2: Fast Fourier Transform warsow: 1400 x 1050 scimark2: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation scimark2: Monte Carlo scimark2: Sparse Matrix Multiply nexuiz: 800 x 600 - No - Off scimark2: Dense LU Matrix Factorization stream: Copy stream: Scale warsow: 1600 x 1200 stream: Add stream: Triad dcraw: RAW To PPM Image Conversion mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver postmark: Disk Transaction Performance compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test john-the-ripper: Traditional DES john-the-ripper: MD5 john-the-ripper: Blowfish c-ray: Total Time openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance fhourstones: Complex Connect-4 Solving sudokut: Total Time compress-gzip: 2GB File Compression warsow: 1920 x 1080 pybench: Total For Average Test Times unpack-linux: linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 nexuiz: 800 x 600 - No - On Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 24.40 44.53 25.15 76.77 65.45 25.02 65.15 63.51 65.19 62.75 62.85 42.77 42.41 44.23 24.31 308628 84.87 43.70 112.17 101.67 41.60 42.77 42.33 42.97 940.20 186.19 80.40 1122.88 381.85 1371.44 50.30 1638.66 10536.60 10515.02 73.13 11772.79 11798.48 29.38 32.93 265.88 131 6054 3929000 6024 412 129.21 24.10 8270.67 52.67 28.69 72.33 4427 23.01 49.20 19.94 83.50 20.86 19.94 20.87 20.87 19.87 26.88 20.83 26.68 36.49 35.98 78.97 19.89 415368 66.73 51.47 54.23 55.17 59.20 842.70 191.21 859.39 398.81 1359.67 47.74 1404.44 10956.04 10900.22 11992.52 12103.50 24.31 25.71 1217.73 215 7204 3955667 11193 716 128.74 68.03 9342.00 27.31 40.11 2614 16.95 46.83 OpenBenchmarking.org
Nexuiz Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 24.40 19.94
Urban Terror Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.1 Resolution: 800 x 600 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.40, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 83.50 44.53
Nexuiz Resolution: 1600 x 1200 - HDR: No - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1600 x 1200 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 25.15 20.86
Warsow Resolution: 1680 x 1050 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 1680 x 1050 Mac OS X 10.8 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 76.77
Nexuiz Resolution: 1680 x 1050 - HDR: No - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1680 x 1050 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 15 30 45 60 75 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 65.45 19.94
Nexuiz Resolution: 1600 x 1200 - HDR: No - Sound: On OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1600 x 1200 - HDR: No - Sound: On Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 25.02 20.87
Nexuiz Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - HDR: No - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 15 30 45 60 75 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 65.15 20.87
Nexuiz Resolution: 1680 x 1050 - HDR: No - Sound: On OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1680 x 1050 - HDR: No - Sound: On Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 63.51 19.87
Nexuiz Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - HDR: No - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 15 30 45 60 75 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 65.19 26.88
Nexuiz Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - HDR: No - Sound: On OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - HDR: No - Sound: On Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.53, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 62.75 20.83
Nexuiz Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - HDR: No - Sound: On OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - HDR: No - Sound: On Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 62.85 26.68
Nexuiz Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: No - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 10 20 30 40 50 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 42.77 36.49
Nexuiz Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: No - Sound: On OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: No - Sound: On Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 10 20 30 40 50 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 42.41 35.98
Urban Terror Resolution: 1024 x 768 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.1 Resolution: 1024 x 768 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 78.97 44.23
Nexuiz Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: On OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: On Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 24.31 19.89
TSCP AI Chess Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Nodes Per Second, More Is Better TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 90K 180K 270K 360K 450K SE +/- 139.98, N = 5 SE +/- 215.94, N = 5 415368 308628
Warsow Resolution: 1280 x 1024 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Mac OS X 10.8 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.66, N = 3 84.87
Urban Terror Resolution: 1280 x 1024 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.1 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 15 30 45 60 75 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 66.73 43.70
Warsow Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 800 x 600 Mac OS X 10.8 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 2.04, N = 3 112.17
Warsow Resolution: 1024 x 768 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 1024 x 768 Mac OS X 10.8 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.79, N = 3 101.67
Urban Terror Resolution: 1920 x 1080 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.1 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 12 24 36 48 60 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 51.47 41.60
Urban Terror Resolution: 1600 x 1200 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.1 Resolution: 1600 x 1200 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 12 24 36 48 60 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 54.23 42.77
Urban Terror Resolution: 1680 x 1050 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.1 Resolution: 1680 x 1050 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 12 24 36 48 60 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 55.17 42.33
Urban Terror Resolution: 1400 x 1050 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.1 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.24, N = 3 59.20 42.97
SciMark Computational Test: Composite OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 5.34, N = 4 SE +/- 0.52, N = 4 940.20 842.70
SciMark Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.21, N = 4 SE +/- 0.39, N = 4 191.21 186.19
Warsow Resolution: 1400 x 1050 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 Mac OS X 10.8 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.70, N = 3 80.40
SciMark Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 2.09, N = 4 SE +/- 1.15, N = 4 1122.88 859.39
SciMark Computational Test: Monte Carlo OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 90 180 270 360 450 SE +/- 1.39, N = 4 SE +/- 0.43, N = 4 398.81 381.85
SciMark Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 1.10, N = 4 SE +/- 1.13, N = 4 1371.44 1359.67
Nexuiz Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: No - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 11 22 33 44 55 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 50.30 47.74
SciMark Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 24.52, N = 4 SE +/- 0.93, N = 4 1638.66 1404.44
Stream Type: Copy OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 11.76, N = 10 SE +/- 44.65, N = 10 10956.04 10536.60
Stream Type: Scale OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 10.32, N = 10 SE +/- 31.30, N = 10 10900.22 10515.02
Warsow Resolution: 1600 x 1200 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 1600 x 1200 Mac OS X 10.8 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.52, N = 3 73.13
Stream Type: Add OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 4.29, N = 10 SE +/- 37.79, N = 10 11992.52 11772.79
Stream Type: Triad OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 3K 6K 9K 12K 15K SE +/- 7.38, N = 10 SE +/- 37.12, N = 10 12103.50 11798.48
dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.47, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 5 24.31 29.38
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 25.71 32.93
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 0.48, N = 3 SE +/- 0.38, N = 3 1217.73 265.88
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 1.90, N = 5 SE +/- 0.32, N = 5 215 131
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 1500 3000 4500 6000 7500 SE +/- 49.15, N = 3 SE +/- 11.26, N = 3 7204 6054
John The Ripper Test: Traditional DES OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Traditional DES Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 800K 1600K 2400K 3200K 4000K SE +/- 1452.97, N = 3 SE +/- 3214.55, N = 3 3955667 3929000
John The Ripper Test: MD5 OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: MD5 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 55.56, N = 3 SE +/- 28.11, N = 3 11193 6024
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 150 300 450 600 750 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 1.00, N = 3 716 412
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 SE +/- 0.63, N = 3 128.74 129.21
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 15 30 45 60 75 SE +/- 0.06, N = 4 SE +/- 0.21, N = 4 68.03 24.10
Fhourstones Complex Connect-4 Solving OpenBenchmarking.org Kpos / sec, More Is Better Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 9.46, N = 3 SE +/- 12.84, N = 3 9342.00 8270.67
Sudokut Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 12 24 36 48 60 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.46, N = 3 27.31 52.67
Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.24, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 28.69 40.11
Warsow Resolution: 1920 x 1080 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Mac OS X 10.8 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.50, N = 3 72.33
PyBench Total For Average Test Times OpenBenchmarking.org Milliseconds, Fewer Is Better PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 900 1800 2700 3600 4500 SE +/- 3.71, N = 3 SE +/- 2.65, N = 3 2614 4427
Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 Mac OS X 10.8 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.47, N = 8 SE +/- 0.29, N = 7 16.95 23.01
Nexuiz Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: No - Sound: On OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: No - Sound: On Mac OS X 10.8 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 11 22 33 44 55 SE +/- 0.30, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 49.20 46.83
Phoronix Test Suite v10.8.4