Retina MacBook Pro - OS X 10.7 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. Unfortunately Ubuntu Linux is currently borked on the Retina MacBook Pro.

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Retina MacBook Pro - OS X 10.7 vs. OS X 10.8 Performance, "Nexuiz 2.5.2 - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",26.6061491,26.686797,25.8405757 "OS X 10.8.0",26.8139987,26.5106681,27.215595 "Nexuiz 2.5.2 - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",26.3112682,26.8296117,27.2049081 "OS X 10.8.0",26.6229034,27.309439,27.0612702 "X-Plane 9.45 - Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2880 x 1800", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",62,62 "OS X 10.8.0",63,63,63 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Composite", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",1280.52,1273.12,1288.28,1289.7 "OS X 10.8.0",1270.21,1275.67,1269.69,1277.02 "X-Plane 9.45 - Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 1920 x 1080", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",106,105,103 "OS X 10.8.0",106,105,108 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",296.14,292.85,297.56,294.77 "OS X 10.8.0",279.26,290.45,288.65,281.4 "X-Plane 9.45 - Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2560 x 1600", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",70,70 "OS X 10.8.0",74,73,73 "Warsow 1.0 - Resolution: 2560 x 1600", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",47.8,48.2,47.5 "OS X 10.8.0",45.8,48.1,48.7 "Warsow 1.0 - Resolution: 2880 x 1800", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",45.4,48.9,47.7,49.8,48.3 "OS X 10.8.0",48.4,47.7,49.1 "Warsow 1.0 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",48.5,48.5,46.5 "OS X 10.8.0",47.9,48,49 "Urban Terror 4.1 - Resolution: 2880 x 1800", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",50,50.8,50.8 "OS X 10.8.0",97.6,98.7,97.2 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Monte Carlo", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",435.02,435.28,437.51,437.52 "OS X 10.8.0",434.32,434.49,436.21,436.27 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",1842.6,1835.83,1856.15,1857.69 "OS X 10.8.0",1816.87,1814.23,1819.3,1831.13 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",2426.46,2396.91,2437.3,2444.5 "OS X 10.8.0",2392.87,2411.65,2393.29,2416.97 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",1402.4,1404.73,1412.9,1414.04 "OS X 10.8.0",1408.41,1409.63,1407.13,1408.55 "Stream 2009-04-11 - Type: Copy", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",14665.3986,14961.2895,14644.5966,14739.4825,14835.6061,14705.569,14713.6295,14679.8346,14705.569,14631.8247 "OS X 10.8.0",14579.3752,14234.5666,14368.668,13658.0572,14330.3148,13822.629,14134.1331,13468.914,14330.3148,14533.5926 "Stream 2009-04-11 - Type: Scale", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",14362.5177,14401.0438,14380.9845,14356.3727,14382.5255,14376.3633,14324.1972,14370.2064,14362.5177,14284.5602 "OS X 10.8.0",14035.107,14292.1657,14065.9954,14122.2357,13985.3838,14165.4594,14114.81,14091.1001,13992.6739,14183.4226 "Stream 2009-04-11 - Type: Triad", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",16249.1196,16238.6346,16238.6346,16271.4452,16254.3672,16173.4087,16205.956,16205.956,16276.7073,16243.8754 "OS X 10.8.0",16048.3533,15841.2615,16053.472,15903.8306,16053.472,16033.0168,15926.4767,16090.6803,16080.3987,16021.5337 "Stream 2009-04-11 - Type: Add", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",15963.098,15946.6608,15883.7548,15921.4387,15968.1624,15903.8306,15963.098,15915.1456,15921.4387,15936.5623 "OS X 10.8.0",15640.6613,15589.7934,15675.9785,15599.457,15753.2545,15717.5886,15564.4833,15779.1827,15707.7781,15758.1866 "OpenArena 0.8.5 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",218.2,219.7,220.5 "OS X 10.8.0",254.6,248.3,253.7 "OpenArena 0.8.5 - Resolution: 2560 x 1600", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",141.6,137.3,143.8 "OS X 10.8.0",255.7,255.2,252.1 "OpenArena 0.8.5 - Resolution: 2880 x 1800", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",130.5,133,132.3 "OS X 10.8.0",249.7,252.8,246.9 "Xonotic 0.6 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",144.4855918,142.7023779,144.8729123 "OS X 10.8.0",137.6893294,139.5817991,139.5678527 "Xonotic 0.6 - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Low", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",141.0851728,141.711258,139.9284761 "OS X 10.8.0",135.6230076,135.8329594,135.738478 "Xonotic 0.6 - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - Effects Quality: Low", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",135.677946,134.6082498,135.3220096 "OS X 10.8.0",135.8811344,135.525775,135.5137021 "Xonotic 0.6 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",71.8756356,72.178194,72.4705256 "OS X 10.8.0",70.9536258,71.7126503,71.5966309 "Xonotic 0.6 - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: High", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",60.0881886,60.3357315,60.0382116 "OS X 10.8.0",52.7889977,52.6200449,52.7170447 "Xonotic 0.6 - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - Effects Quality: High", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",54.8208652,55.0489294,55.0107338 "OS X 10.8.0",52.2981747,52.7315753,52.3952579 "Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",176.528,173.084,172.897,173.927 "OS X 10.8.0",174.945,172.644,168.108,168.269 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",263.257817,263.022259,263.039733 "OS X 10.8.0",285.125833,284.982051,288.11733 "PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",1666,1562,1666,1666,1666 "OS X 10.8.0",1666,1666,1666,1666,1785 "Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",37.109871149063,38.969503164291,38.926692962646 "OS X 10.8.0",33.175994157791,33.11180305481,33.255627155304 "Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",29.884467840195,30.062469005585,30.266096115112 "OS X 10.8.0",31.581937074661,31.660722970963,31.616992950439 "Tachyon 0.98.9 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",14.8706,14.8848,14.7579 "OS X 10.8.0",14.8494,14.7795,14.7357 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",49.998,50.364,49.967 "OS X 10.8.0",49.979,49.938,49.926 "OpenSSL 1.0.0e - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",27.7,27.8,27.7,27.6 "OS X 10.8.0",27.8,27.3,27.3,27.2 "PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 - TPC-B Transactions Per Second", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",4213.198518,4355.887003,4235.516158 "OS X 10.8.0",3945.607304,4371.511602,3954.64588,4389.32573,3957.551696,4456.546609 "Fhourstones 3.1 - Complex Connect-4 Solving", Higher Results Are Better "OS X 10.7.4",10036.8,10053.7,10060.6 "OS X 10.8.0",9973.2,9758.2,9782.4