Primate Labs has released benchmarks comparing the performance of Snow Leopard to Leopard.
To find out just how much faster existing applications run under Snow Leopard, I ran Geekbench on my MacBook Pro under Leopard and Snow Leopard. Geekbench doesn’t take advantage of Grand Central Dispatch or OpenCL so it’s a good way to determine how much of a performance boost existing applications will receive under Snow Leopard.
The system used was a MacBook Pro (Late 2008), Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 @ 2.40GHz, 2.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3.
The results indicate a speed improvement of between 2% and 3%. Qualitatively the new OS also feels faster and smoother due to increased responsiveness.
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