Apple just released a Mac OS X 10.4.8 developer seed marked as build 8L2112 (Intel) and 8L112 (PPC). This latest build was released to developers with little fan fare.
An unconfirmed post claimed the latest 10.4.8 build did incorporate enhanced OpenGL performance which led to the following Cinebench that does not show significant improvements:
Update: Apologies, it appears the benchmarks are not significantly better. Updated numbers seen. Improvements may have been gradual over 10.4.x updates or simply variability in the benchamrks