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","test"
Processor,,Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores)
Motherboard,,Apple MacBook Pro,Apple MacBook Pro,Apple Mac mini
Chipset,,Intel 7,Intel 7,NVIDIA MCP79
Memory,,2 x 4096 DDR3-1600MHz,2 x 4096 DDR3-1600MHz,x 0 DDR3-1067MHz
Disk,,251GB APPLE SSD SM256E,251GB APPLE SSD SM256E,96GB KINGSTON SVP100S296G
Graphics,,NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M + Intel HD 4000 1024MB,Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB,NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256MB
Monitor,,Color LCD,Color LCD,M2762D
OS,,Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E2068),OS X 10.8 (12A269),OS X 10.8.3 (12D78)
Kernel,,11.4.1 (x86_64),12.0.0 (x86_64),12.3.0 (x86_64)
Display Server,,X Server 1.10.6,,X Server 1.13.0
OpenGL,,2.1,,2.1
Compiler,,Clang 4.0 + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.4,Clang 4.0 + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.4,Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.24) (based on LLVM 3.2svn)Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0Thread model: posix + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6 + CUDA 5.0
File-System,,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+
Screen Resolution,,2880x1800,2880x1800,1920x1080
,,"OS X 10.7.4","OS X 10.8.0","test"
"Nexuiz - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,26.78,27.00,16.19
"Nexuiz - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,26.38,26.85,16.22
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,219.47,252.20,40.50
"OpenArena - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (FPS)",HIB,140.90,254.33,87.77
"OpenArena - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 (FPS)",HIB,131.93,249.80,88.37
"Urban Terror - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 (FPS)",HIB,50.53,97.83,44.07
"Warsow - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,47.83,48.30,
"Warsow - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (FPS)",HIB,47.83,47.53,
"Warsow - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 (FPS)",HIB,48.02,48.40,
"X-Plane - Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,105,106,14
"X-Plane - Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (FPS)",HIB,70,73,9
"X-Plane - Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 (FPS)",HIB,62,63,8
"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,
"Fhourstones - Complex Connect-4 Solving (Kpos / sec)",HIB,10050.37,9837.93,4957.43
"Threaded I/O Tester - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 (MB/s)",HIB,174.11,170.99,38.33
"Stream - Type: Copy (MB/s)",HIB,14728.28,14146.06,2688.85
"Stream - Type: Scale (MB/s)",HIB,14360.13,14104.84,2711.36
"Stream - Type: Triad (MB/s)",HIB,16235.81,16005.25,2878.53
"Stream - Type: Add (MB/s)",HIB,15932.32,15678.64,2866.05
"SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1282.91,1273.15,370.96
"SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,436.33,435.32,233.16
"SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,295.33,284.94,66.05
"SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1848.07,1820.38,420.71
"SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,2426.29,2403.70,485.04
"SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,1408.52,1408.43,650.10
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,263.11,286.08,174.66
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,27.70,27.40,12.60
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1645,1690,182
"PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,4268.20,4179.20,1429.57
"Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,38.34,33.18,221.98
"Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,30.07,31.62,156.43
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,50.11,49.95,251.56
"Tachyon - Total Time (sec)",LIB,14.84,14.79,78.35