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 telemac OS X 10.10: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SD0256F, Graphics: Intel Iris 1536MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.10, Kernel: 14.0.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Compiler: Apple LLVM 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on LLVM 3.4svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 5.1.1, File-System: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 telemac xubuntu 14.04: Processor: Intel Core i5-4288U @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-189A3D4F975D5FFC, Chipset: Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SD0256, Graphics: Intel Device 0a2e (1200MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-32-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.910, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.1.3, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 (ecryptfs), Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 OS X 10.10.4: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SD0256F, Graphics: Intel Iris 1536MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.10.4, Kernel: 14.4.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.15.2, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Apple LLVM 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 6.4, File-System: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 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 |============================ telemac OS X 10.10 .... 61.28 |================================================ telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 13.10 |========== OS X 10.10.4 .......... 59.55 |=============================================== 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 |=========================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 61.98 |================================================ telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 9.20 |======= OS X 10.10.4 .......... 59.59 |============================================== 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 |============================================ telemac OS X 10.10 .... 135.87 |============================================ telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 145.98 |=============================================== 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 |=============================================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 97.43 |==================================== telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 104.90 |====================================== 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 |=============================================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 99.29 |=================================== telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 125.14 |============================================ OS X 10.10.4 .......... 97.97 |=================================== 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 |============================================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 79.31 |============================ telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 83.06 |============================= OS X 10.10.4 .......... 78.17 |============================ 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 |====================================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 46.92 |================================= telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 68.02 |================================================ OS X 10.10.4 .......... 45.87 |================================ 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 |====================================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 36.78 |================================ telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 39.88 |=================================== OS X 10.10.4 .......... 36.09 |================================ 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 |==================================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 41.02 |=================================== telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 56.68 |================================================ OS X 10.10.4 .......... 40.80 |=================================== 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 |======================================= telemac OS X 10.10 .... 32.49 |==================================== telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 33.56 |===================================== OS X 10.10.4 .......... 31.98 |=================================== 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 |============================ telemac OS X 10.10 .... 6.02 |===================================== telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 4.46 |=========================== OS X 10.10.4 .......... 7.95 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........... 495.61 |=============================================== OS X 10.9 ............. 450.03 |=========================================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 458.51 |=========================================== telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 466.30 |============================================ OS X 10.10.4 .......... 428.24 |========================================= 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 |=============================================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 239.23 |====================================== telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 222.59 |==================================== OS X 10.10.4 .......... 227.31 |==================================== 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 |============================================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 1863.73 |======================================= telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 1979.38 |========================================= OS X 10.10.4 .......... 1662.99 |=================================== 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 |=================================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 2525.65 |============================================== telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 1964.50 |==================================== OS X 10.10.4 .......... 2238.22 |========================================= 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 |============================================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 1249.55 |========================================= telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 929.84 |============================== OS X 10.10.4 .......... 1185.77 |======================================= Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........... 577.17 |=================== OS X 10.9 ............. 576.79 |=================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 952.86 |=============================== telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 1419.15 |============================================== OS X 10.10.4 .......... 810.85 |========================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........... 16350 |============================================== OS X 10.9 ............. 17239 |================================================ telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 9482 |========================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........... 38.84 |======================== OS X 10.9 ............. 38.41 |======================== telemac OS X 10.10 .... 64.93 |========================================= telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 57.31 |==================================== OS X 10.10.4 .......... 76.88 |================================================ Primesieve 4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better OS X 10.8.5 ........... 427.97 |============================================= OS X 10.9 ............. 423.21 |============================================= telemac OS X 10.10 .... 442.55 |=============================================== telemac xubuntu 14.04 . 226.87 |======================== 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 |==========================================================