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 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. ,,"OS X 10.7.4","OS X 10.8.0" Processor,,Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,Apple MacBook Pro,Apple MacBook Pro Chipset,,Intel 7,Intel 7 Memory,,2 x 4096 DDR3-1600MHz,2 x 4096 DDR3-1600MHz Disk,,251GB APPLE SSD SM256E,251GB APPLE SSD SM256E Graphics,,NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M + Intel HD 4000 1024MB,Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB Monitor,,Color LCD,Color LCD OS,,Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E2068),OS X 10.8 (12A269) Kernel,,11.4.1 (x86_64),12.0.0 (x86_64) Display Server,,X Server 1.10.6, OpenGL,,2.1, Compiler,,Clang 4.0 + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.4,Clang 4.0 + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.4 File-System,,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+ Screen Resolution,,2880x1800,2880x1800 ,,"OS X 10.7.4","OS X 10.8.0" "Nexuiz - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,26.38,26.85 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,26.78,27.00 "X-Plane - Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 (FPS)",HIB,62,63 "SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1282.91,1273.15 "X-Plane - Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,105,106 "SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,295.33,284.94 "X-Plane - Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (FPS)",HIB,70,73 "Warsow - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (FPS)",HIB,47.83,47.53 "Warsow - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 (FPS)",HIB,48.02,48.40 "Warsow - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,47.83,48.30 "Urban Terror - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 (FPS)",HIB,50.53,97.83 "SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,436.33,435.32 "SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1848.07,1820.38 "SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,2426.29,2403.70 "SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,1408.52,1408.43 "Stream - Type: Copy (MB/s)",HIB,14728.28,14146.06 "Stream - Type: Scale (MB/s)",HIB,14360.13,14104.84 "Stream - Type: Triad (MB/s)",HIB,16235.81,16005.25 "Stream - Type: Add (MB/s)",HIB,15932.32,15678.64 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,219.47,252.20 "OpenArena - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (FPS)",HIB,140.90,254.33 "OpenArena - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 (FPS)",HIB,131.93,249.80 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,144.02,138.95 "Xonotic - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,140.91,135.73 "Xonotic - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,135.20,135.64 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,72.17,71.42 "Xonotic - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,60.15,52.71 "Xonotic - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,54.96,52.48 "Threaded I/O Tester - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 (MB/s)",HIB,174.11,170.99 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,263.11,286.08 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1645,1690 "Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,38.34,33.18 "Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,30.07,31.62 "Tachyon - Total Time (sec)",LIB,14.84,14.79 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,50.11,49.95 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,27.70,27.40 "PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,4268.20,4179.20 "Fhourstones - Complex Connect-4 Solving (Kpos / sec)",HIB,10050.37,9837.93