Mac OS X 10.8 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. 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 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 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 84.17 |========================================= 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 52.37 |============================== 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 52.37 |============================== 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 26.18 |================= 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 20.93 |============== 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 19.98 |================================== 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 |=================================================== 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 |=================================================== 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 |=================================================== 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 30.30 |========================================= 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 31.09 |======================================= 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 23.82 |===================== 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 7188 |=========================================== 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 414871 |========================================= 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 3951333 |======================================== 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 11252 |========================================== 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 716 |============================================ 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 67.95 |========================================== 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 216 |============================================ 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 129.13 |========================================= 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 25.60 |================================= 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 12.04 LTS 2012-02-19 . 27.32 |======================