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:
Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: 2 x 4096 DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M + Intel HD 4000 1024MB, Monitor: Color LCD
OS: Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E2068), Kernel: 11.4.1 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.10.6, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Clang 4.0 + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.4, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800
OS X 10.8.0:
Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: 2 x 4096 DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB, Monitor: Color LCD
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: 2880x1800
test:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP79, Memory: x 0 DDR3-1067MHz, Disk: 96GB KINGSTON SVP100S296G, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256MB, Monitor: M2762D
OS: OS X 10.8.3 (12D78), Kernel: 12.3.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: 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+, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 26.78 |==========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 27.00 |==========================================================
test ........ 16.19 |===================================
Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 26.38 |=========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 26.85 |==========================================================
test ........ 16.22 |===================================
OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 219.47 |==================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 252.20 |=========================================================
test ........ 40.50 |=========
OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 140.90 |================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 254.33 |=========================================================
test ........ 87.77 |====================
OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 2880 x 1800
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 131.93 |==============================
OS X 10.8.0 . 249.80 |=========================================================
test ........ 88.37 |====================
Urban Terror 4.1
Resolution: 2880 x 1800
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 50.53 |==============================
OS X 10.8.0 . 97.83 |==========================================================
test ........ 44.07 |==========================
Warsow 1.0
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 47.83 |=========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 48.30 |==========================================================
Warsow 1.0
Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 47.83 |==========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 47.53 |==========================================================
Warsow 1.0
Resolution: 2880 x 1800
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 48.02 |==========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 48.40 |==========================================================
X-Plane 9.45
Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 105 |===========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 106 |============================================================
test ........ 14 |========
X-Plane 9.45
Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 70 |==========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 73 |=============================================================
test ........ 9 |========
X-Plane 9.45
Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2880 x 1800
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 62 |============================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 63 |=============================================================
test ........ 8 |========
Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 144.02 |=========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 138.95 |=======================================================
Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 140.91 |=========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 135.73 |=======================================================
Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 135.20 |=========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 135.64 |=========================================================
Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 72.17 |==========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 71.42 |=========================================================
Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 60.15 |==========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 52.71 |===================================================
Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 54.96 |==========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 52.48 |=======================================================
Fhourstones 3.1
Complex Connect-4 Solving
Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 10050.37 |=======================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 9837.93 |======================================================
test ........ 4957.43 |===========================
Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8
MB/s > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 174.11 |=========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 170.99 |========================================================
test ........ 38.33 |=============
Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Copy
MB/s > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 14728.28 |=======================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 14146.06 |=====================================================
test ........ 2688.85 |==========
Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Scale
MB/s > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 14360.13 |=======================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 14104.84 |======================================================
test ........ 2711.36 |==========
Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Triad
MB/s > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 16235.81 |=======================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 16005.25 |======================================================
test ........ 2878.53 |==========
Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Add
MB/s > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 15932.32 |=======================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 15678.64 |======================================================
test ........ 2866.05 |==========
SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Composite
Mflops > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 1282.91 |========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 1273.15 |========================================================
test ........ 370.96 |================
SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Monte Carlo
Mflops > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 436.33 |=========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 435.32 |=========================================================
test ........ 233.16 |==============================
SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform
Mflops > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 295.33 |=========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 284.94 |=======================================================
test ........ 66.05 |=============
SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply
Mflops > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 1848.07 |========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 1820.38 |=======================================================
test ........ 420.71 |=============
SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization
Mflops > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 2426.29 |========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 2403.70 |=======================================================
test ........ 485.04 |===========
SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation
Mflops > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 1408.52 |========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 1408.43 |========================================================
test ........ 650.10 |==========================
Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 263.11 |====================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 286.08 |=========================================================
test ........ 174.66 |===================================
OpenSSL 1.0.0e
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 27.70 |==========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 27.40 |=========================================================
test ........ 12.60 |==========================
PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 1645 |=========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 1690 |===========================================================
test ........ 182 |======
PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11
TPC-B Transactions Per Second
TPS > Higher Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 4268.20 |========================================================
OS X 10.8.0 . 4179.20 |=======================================================
test ........ 1429.57 |===================
Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 38.34 |==========
OS X 10.8.0 . 33.18 |=========
test ........ 221.98 |=========================================================
Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 30.07 |===========
OS X 10.8.0 . 31.62 |============
test ........ 156.43 |=========================================================
C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 50.11 |===========
OS X 10.8.0 . 49.95 |===========
test ........ 251.56 |=========================================================
Tachyon 0.98.9
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
OS X 10.7.4 . 14.84 |===========
OS X 10.8.0 . 14.79 |===========
test ........ 78.35 |==========================================================