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.

Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the Phoronix Test Suite by running the command: phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1208098-SU-OSXMOUNTA86
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Retina MacBook Pro - OS X 10.7 vs. OS X 10.8 Performance Suite 1.0.0 System Test suite extracted from Retina MacBook Pro - OS X 10.7 vs. OS X 10.8 Performance. pts/urbanterror-1.1.0 +set r_customwidth 2880 +set r_customheight 1800 Resolution: 2880 x 1800 pts/openarena-1.4.0 +set r_customWidth 2880 +set r_customHeight 1800 Resolution: 2880 x 1800 pts/openarena-1.4.0 +set r_customWidth 2560 +set r_customHeight 1600 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 pts/build-imagemagick-1.5.2 Time To Compile pts/openarena-1.4.0 +set r_customWidth 1920 +set r_customHeight 1080 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pts/xonotic-1.2.0 +vid_width 2560 +vid_height 1600 +exec effects-high.cfg Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: High pts/himeno-1.1.0 Poisson Pressure Solver pts/build-php-1.3.1 Time To Compile pts/xonotic-1.2.0 +vid_width 2880 +vid_height 1800 +exec effects-high.cfg Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - Effects Quality: High pts/xplane9-1.3.0 --fps_test=2 --pref:_x_res_full_ALL=2560 --pref:_y_res_full_ALL=1600 Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 pts/stream-1.1.0 Copy Type: Copy pts/xonotic-1.2.0 +vid_width 2560 +vid_height 1600 +exec effects-low.cfg Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Low pts/xonotic-1.2.0 +vid_width 1920 +vid_height 1080 +exec effects-low.cfg Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low pts/scimark2-1.1.1 TEST_FFT Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform pts/postmark-1.0.0 Disk Transaction Performance pts/fhourstones-1.1.0 Complex Connect-4 Solving pts/pgbench-1.4.0 TPC-B Transactions Per Second pts/tiobench-1.1.0 -k3 -k2 -f 64 -t 8 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 pts/stream-1.1.0 Scale Type: Scale pts/nexuiz-1.6.0 +vid_width 2880 +vid_height 1800 +r_hdr 1 Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On pts/stream-1.1.0 Add Type: Add pts/xplane9-1.3.0 --fps_test=2 --pref:_x_res_full_ALL=2880 --pref:_y_res_full_ALL=1800 Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 pts/scimark2-1.1.1 TEST_SPARSE Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply pts/stream-1.1.0 Triad Type: Triad pts/openssl-1.6.0 RSA 4096-bit Performance pts/xonotic-1.2.0 +vid_width 1920 +vid_height 1080 +exec effects-high.cfg Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High pts/warsow-1.4.1 +vid_customwidth 1920 +vid_customheight 1080 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pts/xplane9-1.3.0 --fps_test=2 --pref:_x_res_full_ALL=1920 --pref:_y_res_full_ALL=1080 Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pts/scimark2-1.1.1 TEST_DENSE Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization pts/nexuiz-1.6.0 +vid_width 2560 +vid_height 1600 +r_hdr 1 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On pts/warsow-1.4.1 +vid_customwidth 2880 +vid_customheight 1800 Resolution: 2880 x 1800 pts/scimark2-1.1.1 TEST_COMPOSITE Computational Test: Composite pts/warsow-1.4.1 +vid_customwidth 2560 +vid_customheight 1600 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 pts/tachyon-1.1.0 Total Time pts/xonotic-1.2.0 +vid_width 2880 +vid_height 1800 +exec effects-low.cfg Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - Effects Quality: Low pts/c-ray-1.1.0 Total Time pts/scimark2-1.1.1 TEST_MONTE Computational Test: Monte Carlo pts/scimark2-1.1.1 TEST_SOR Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation