Intel Core i5 Mac OS X 10.7 vs. OS X 10.8 Intel Core i5 testing with a Apple Mac mini and Intel HD 3000 288MB on Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53) compared to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Apple OS X 10.7.4: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 6, Memory: 2 x 1024 DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 288MB, Monitor: Thunderbolt Display OS: Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53), Kernel: 11.4.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.10.6, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Clang 3.1 + Xcode 4.3.3, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Apple OS X 10.8: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 6, Memory: 2 x 1024 DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 288MB, Monitor: Thunderbolt Display OS: OS X 10.8 (12A269), Kernel: 12.0.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Clang 4.0 + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.4, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 109673 |=============================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 118829 |=================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 33.02 |==================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 32.55 |=================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 31.91 |=================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 32.66 |==================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 19.09 |=============================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 21.24 |==================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 23.71 |==================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 22.48 |================================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 127 |====================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 80 |================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - HDR: No - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 11.36 |=============================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 12.64 |==================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 11.53 |=============================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 12.85 |==================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 9.38 |============================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 10.71 |==================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 9.51 |============================================= Apple OS X 10.8 ... 10.89 |==================================================== Urban Terror 4.1 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 36.03 |============================= Apple OS X 10.8 ... 65.30 |==================================================== X-Plane 9.45 Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 23 |================================================= Apple OS X 10.8 ... 26 |======================================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 54.37 |==================================================== Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 8168.43 |================================================= Apple OS X 10.8 ... 8386.90 |================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 942.15 |=================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 937.88 |=================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 414.45 |=================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 383.40 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 182.04 |================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 184.18 |=================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 1420.06 |================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 1357.55 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 1575.25 |================================================ Apple OS X 10.8 ... 1636.49 |================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 1117.50 |================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 1128.00 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 46 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 18 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 60 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 91 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 14 |======================================================= 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 6573 |===================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 6084 |================================================= Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 77.80 |==================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 200.50 |=================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 52.38 |========================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 65.37 |==================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 130.08 |======== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 852.82 |=================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 26.19 |================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 27.24 |==================================================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 66.64 |============================================= Apple OS X 10.8 ... 77.09 |==================================================== Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 52.39 |==================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 51.56 |=================================================== Tachyon 0.98.9 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 43.85 |====== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 386.12 |=================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 24.60 |==================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 24.25 |=================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 478.48 |=================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 405.28 |=========================================== PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 4423 |===================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 4310 |==================================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 92.52 |==================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 84.29 |=============================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 59.59 |================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 62.43 |==================================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 39.38 |==================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 36.51 |================================================ Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Apple OS X 10.7.4 . 12.20 |=================================================== Apple OS X 10.8 ... 12.49 |====================================================