Mac OS X 10.8 Performance
Intel Core i5 testing with a Apple Mac mini and Intel HD 3000 288MB on OS X 10.8 (12A128p) via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Mountain Lion: 

	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: OS X 10.8 (12A128p), Kernel: 12.0.0 (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: Xcode 4.2.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Mountain Lion . 128.03 |=======================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Mountain Lion . 27.94 |========================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Mountain Lion . 32.41 |========================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Read Compiled Tree
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Mountain Lion . 34.26 |========================================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Mountain Lion . 6072 |=========================================================


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Mountain Lion . 28.54 |========================================================


dcraw
RAW To PPM Image Conversion
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Mountain Lion . 29.63 |========================================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Mountain Lion . 3937000 |======================================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Mountain Lion . 6066 |=========================================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Mountain Lion . 413 |==========================================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Mountain Lion . 32.19 |========================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Composite
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Mountain Lion . 943.31 |=======================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Mountain Lion . 186.56 |=======================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Mountain Lion . 1124.04 |======================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Monte Carlo
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Mountain Lion . 381.78 |=======================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Mountain Lion . 1367.92 |======================================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization
Mflops > Higher Is Better
Mountain Lion . 1656.23 |======================================================


Sudokut 0.4
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Mountain Lion . 51.69 |========================================================


PyBench 2008-08-14
Total For Average Test Times
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Mountain Lion . 4424 |=========================================================