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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OS X 10.7.4
July 30 2012
 
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May 10 2013
 
KINGSTON SVP100S296G
May 18 2013
 
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May 20 2013
 
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May 25 2013
 
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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","10.8.4","KINGSTON SVP100S296G","12e52","12e55","bench1mav","OS X 10.7.4 11G63" Processor,,Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores),Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores),Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores),Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores),Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores),Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores),Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores) Motherboard,,Apple MacBook Pro,Apple MacBook Pro,Apple Mac mini,Apple Mac mini,Apple Mac mini,Apple Mac mini,Apple Mac mini,Apple Mac mini,Apple Mac mini Chipset,,Intel 7,Intel 7,NVIDIA MCP79,NVIDIA MCP79,NVIDIA MCP79,NVIDIA MCP79,NVIDIA MCP79,NVIDIA MCP79,NVIDIA MCP79 Memory,,2 x 4096 DDR3-1600MHz,2 x 4096 DDR3-1600MHz,x 0 DDR3-1067MHz,x 0 DDR3-1067MHz,x 0 DDR3-1067MHz,x 0 DDR3-1067MHz,x 0 DDR3-1067MHz,2 x 2048 DDR3-1067MHz,2 x 2048 DDR3-1067MHz Disk,,251GB APPLE SSD SM256E,251GB APPLE SSD SM256E,96GB KINGSTON SVP100S296G,96GB KINGSTON SVP100S296G,96GB KINGSTON SVP100S296G,96GB KINGSTON SVP100S296G,96GB KINGSTON SVP100S296G,96GB KINGSTON SVP100S296G,96GB KINGSTON SVP100S296G Graphics,,NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M + Intel HD 4000 1024MB,Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB,NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256MB,NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256MB,NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256MB,NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256MB,NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256MB,NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256MB,NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256MB Monitor,,Color LCD,Color LCD,M2762D,M2762D,M2762D,M2762D,M2762D,M2762D,M2762D OS,,Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E2068),OS X 10.8 (12A269),OS X 10.8.3 (12D78),OS X 10.8.4 (12E47),OS X 10.8.4 (12E52),OS X 10.8.4 (12E52),OS X 10.8.4 (12E55),OS X 10.9 (13A497d),Mac OS X Server 10.7.5 (11G63) Kernel,,11.4.1 (x86_64),12.0.0 (x86_64),12.3.0 (x86_64),12.4.0 (x86_64),12.4.0 (x86_64),12.4.0 (x86_64),12.4.0 (x86_64),13.0.0 (x86_64),11.4.2 (x86_64) Display Server,,X Server 1.10.6,,X Server 1.13.0,X Server 1.13.0,X Server 1.13.0,X Server 1.13.0,X Server 1.13.0,X Server 1.13.0,X Server 1.10.6 OpenGL,,2.1,,2.1,2.1,2.1,2.1,2.1,2.1,2.1 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,Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM 3.2svn)Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0Thread model: posix + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6.2 + CUDA 5.0,Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM 3.2svn)Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0Thread model: posix + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6.2 + CUDA 5.0,Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM 3.2svn)Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0Thread model: posix + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6.2 + CUDA 5.0,Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM 3.2svn)Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0Thread model: posix + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6.2 + CUDA 5.0,Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.1.61) (based on LLVM 3.3svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + CUDA 5.0,Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM 3.2svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6.3 File-System,,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+ Screen Resolution,,2880x1800,2880x1800,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"OS X 10.7.4","OS X 10.8.0","test","10.8.4","KINGSTON SVP100S296G","12e52","12e55","bench1mav","OS X 10.7.4 11G63" "Nexuiz - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,26.38,26.85,16.22,15.69,21.78,21.39,19.02,20.05,17.75 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On (FPS)",HIB,26.78,27.00,16.19,15.55,21.85,21.48,19.08,19.94,15.67 "X-Plane - Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 (FPS)",HIB,62,63,8,9,9,9,8,9,7 "SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1282.91,1273.15,370.96,364.33,394.55,391.74,383.08,413.98, "X-Plane - Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,105,106,14,15,15,15,15,14,16 "SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,295.33,284.94,66.05,65.22,71.03,68.48,67.59,72.59, "X-Plane - Quality Setting: High - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (FPS)",HIB,70,73,9,10,10,10,10,10,10 "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,50.53,97.83,44.07,50.80,58.17,57.70,49.97,, "SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,436.33,435.32,233.16,235.45,233.13,232.92,233.84,179.70, "SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1848.07,1820.38,420.71,391.54,485.15,482.41,451.81,608.57, "SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,2426.29,2403.70,485.04,474.29,529.58,520.86,508.25,528.11, "SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,1408.52,1408.43,650.10,655.17,653.88,654.03,653.87,680.82, "Stream - Type: Copy (MB/s)",HIB,14728.28,14146.06,2688.85,3091.81,3094.99,3045.75,2962.63,5147.74, "Stream - Type: Scale (MB/s)",HIB,14360.13,14104.84,2711.36,3041.22,3058.75,2997.12,2916.80,3259.75, "Stream - Type: Triad (MB/s)",HIB,16235.81,16005.25,2878.53,3381.33,3392.65,3313.38,3217.89,3671.35, "Stream - Type: Add (MB/s)",HIB,15932.32,15678.64,2866.05,3345.12,3350.50,3273.83,3201.55,3631.44, "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,219.47,252.20,40.50,57.70,62.93,60.27,55.20,58.83,61.47 "OpenArena - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (FPS)",HIB,140.90,254.33,87.77,110.20,130.03,128.43,108.90,121.83,126.30 "OpenArena - Resolution: 2880 x 1800 (FPS)",HIB,131.93,249.80,88.37,109.10,130.30,128.67,107.37,120.83,126.30 "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,174.11,170.99,38.33,37.17,35.21,37.60,38.34,,1.24 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,263.11,286.08,174.66,181.45,183.74,183.21,172.62,265.28, "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1645,1690,182,174,177,163,161,104, "Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,38.34,33.18,221.98,,,,,,181.66 "Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,30.07,31.62,156.43,169.52,151.45,165.17,196.64,133.93,130.85 "Tachyon - Total Time (sec)",LIB,14.84,14.79,78.35,117.95,76.15,75.97,91.75,76.65, "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,50.11,49.95,251.56,228.00,226.93,230.51,255.79,164.62, "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,27.70,27.40,12.60,12.60,12.60,12.60,12.60,12.70, "PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,4268.20,4179.20,1429.57,991.65,1508.18,1502.39,1284.76,1453.40, "Fhourstones - Complex Connect-4 Solving (Kpos / sec)",HIB,10050.37,9837.93,4957.43,5111.67,5206.70,5193.63,5113.50,5347.53,