Apple Mac OS X 10.7 Lion DP2 Battles Ubuntu 10.10

Ending out with more graphics tests, in Urban Terror at 800 x 600 the performance with the NVIDIA blob on Ubuntu Linux was dramatically faster than Mac OS X 10.7. The 11A419 build also seems to have noticeably regressed compared to 11A390, but again this is at 800 x 600.

When Urban Terror was running at the native panel resolution, Mac OS X 10.6.6 and Mac OS X 10.7 DP1 now matched the frame-rate under Ubuntu 10.10, but the DP2 performance is still in a regressed state.

When running the Warsow game at 1920 x 1080, its frame-rate is slightly up from the first Lion developer preview and Mac OS X 10.6.6, while the NVIDIA blob on Ubuntu 10.10 was the slowest of the bunch. Of course, if using the open-source Nouveau driver on Gallium3D its performance would even be worse for Linux.

More results of Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" can be found on OpenBenchmarking.org.