“The new Mac Pro is looking like it will be an absolute powerhouse, but even regulars Macs should see a major performance improvement running OS X 10.9 Mavericks, thanks to the new operating system’s incorporation of OpenGL 4,” John Brownlee reports for Cult of Mac.
“Over on his personal site, Rishi Kumar ran a comparison of OpenGL performance between OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 and OS X Maverick’s Developer Preview 1,” Brownlee reports. “Not only is OS X Mavericks much more compatible with the OpenGL standard than Mountain Lion (Mountain Lion didn’t even fully support OpenGL 3.3, while Mavericks supports up to OpenGL 4.1), but even running backwards compatibility comparisons in OpenGL 1.1 – 2.1, Mavericks showed performance gains from anywhere between 39 and 89%!”
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