OS X 10.9 Mavericks MacBook Retina Pro Intel Core i7 testing with a Apple MacBook Pro and Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB on OS X 10.8.5 versus OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel. OS X 10.8.5: Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB, Monitor: Thunderbolt Display OS: OS X 10.8.5, Kernel: 12.5.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 5.0.1, File-System: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 OS X 10.9: Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024MB, Monitor: Thunderbolt Display OS: OS X 10.9, Kernel: 13.0.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 5.0.1, File-System: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 os x 10.9.2: Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 500GB APPLE SSD SM0512F, Graphics: Intel Iris Pro + NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 1024MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.9.2, Kernel: 13.1.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6.3 + CUDA 5.5, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800 Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 29.84 |=========================================== OS X 10.9 ... 36.06 |==================================================== os x 10.9.2 . 39.98 |========================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 26.95 |======================================= OS X 10.9 ... 34.48 |================================================== os x 10.9.2 . 40.20 |========================================================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 137.47 |============================== OS X 10.9 ... 137.23 |============================== os x 10.9.2 . 259.93 |========================================================= OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 124.77 |========================= OS X 10.9 ... 128.40 |========================= os x 10.9.2 . 289.73 |========================================================= Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 132.92 |========================================================= OS X 10.9 ... 132.14 |========================================================= Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 132.61 |========================================================= OS X 10.9 ... 130.91 |======================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 58.67 |========================================================== OS X 10.9 ... 53.42 |===================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 54.77 |========================================================== OS X 10.9 ... 43.08 |============================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 47.01 |========================================================== OS X 10.9 ... 42.63 |===================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 43.36 |========================================================== OS X 10.9 ... 35.20 |=============================================== BLAKE2 20121223 Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.4 Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 4.75 |==================================================== OS X 10.9 ... 4.62 |================================================== os x 10.9.2 . 5.44 |=========================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 495.61 |==================================================== OS X 10.9 ... 450.03 |=============================================== os x 10.9.2 . 540.89 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 288.64 |======================================== OS X 10.9 ... 293.28 |========================================= os x 10.9.2 . 410.27 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 2211.92 |============================================= OS X 10.9 ... 2215.63 |============================================= os x 10.9.2 . 2729.25 |======================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 1897.44 |========================================= OS X 10.9 ... 1899.11 |========================================= os x 10.9.2 . 2574.92 |======================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 1404.18 |===================================================== OS X 10.9 ... 1404.55 |===================================================== os x 10.9.2 . 1473.10 |======================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 577.17 |============================== OS X 10.9 ... 576.79 |============================== os x 10.9.2 . 1089.41 |======================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 16350 |================================================= OS X 10.9 ... 17239 |==================================================== os x 10.9.2 . 19364 |========================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 38.84 |========================================================== OS X 10.9 ... 38.41 |========================================================= os x 10.9.2 . 30.21 |============================================= Primesieve 4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 427.97 |========================================================= OS X 10.9 ... 423.21 |======================================================== os x 10.9.2 . 380.39 |=================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 . 27.50 |===================================================== OS X 10.9 ... 27.60 |===================================================== os x 10.9.2 . 30.20 |==========================================================