Apple MacBook Pro Retina - OS X 10.7.4 vs. OS X 10.8 Performance

Benchmarks of performance comparing Apple OS X 10.7 Lion vs. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on the mid-2012 Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display and Intel Core i7 2.3GHz Ivy Bridge processor with switchable Intel HD 4000 / NVIDIA Kepler graphics. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com for a future article.

Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the Phoronix Test Suite by running the command: phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1207313-SU-OSX108MBP08
Jump To Table - Results

View

Do Not Show Noisy Results
Do Not Show Results With Incomplete Data
Do Not Show Results With Little Change/Spread
List Notable Results

Limit displaying results to tests within:

Timed Code Compilation 2 Tests
C/C++ Compiler Tests 8 Tests
CPU Massive 7 Tests
Creator Workloads 2 Tests
Desktop Graphics 2 Tests
Common Kernel Benchmarks 3 Tests
Multi-Core 5 Tests
Programmer / Developer System Benchmarks 2 Tests
Raytracing 2 Tests
Renderers 2 Tests
Server 2 Tests
Server CPU Tests 5 Tests
Single-Threaded 2 Tests

Statistics

Show Overall Harmonic Mean(s)
Show Overall Geometric Mean
Show Geometric Means Per-Suite/Category
Show Wins / Losses Counts (Pie Chart)
Normalize Results
Remove Outliers Before Calculating Averages

Graph Settings

Force Line Graphs Where Applicable
Convert To Scalar Where Applicable
Prefer Vertical Bar Graphs

Multi-Way Comparison

Condense Multi-Option Tests Into Single Result Graphs

Table

Show Detailed System Result Table

Run Management

Highlight
Result
Hide
Result
Result
Identifier
View Logs
Performance Per
Dollar
Date
Run
  Test
  Duration
Apple MacBook Pro Retina
July 30 2012
 
Apple OS X 10.8
July 30 2012
 
Invert Hiding All Results Option
 
Only show results matching title/arguments (delimit multiple options with a comma):
Do not show results matching title/arguments (delimit multiple options with a comma):