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Parallels Desktop 3 vs VMware Fusion 2


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Hardware: Hackintosh, Pentium Dual-Core E2160 @ 2.4GHz, 2GB DDR2-667 Dual-Channel, 160G 7200rpm 8M HDD, nVidia GeForce 7300GT with 256MB GDDR3, Gigabyte-EG31MF-S2 Motherboard

 

Software: Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.5, Parallels Desktop 3 Build 5608, VMware Fusion 2 Build 116369

 

In both Virtual Machine softwares, I set the RAM to 1024MB.

 

Guest:

Windows XP Professional with SP3

 

Tests:

PerformanceTest 6.1 Evaluation from http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

 

PerformanceTest.zip contains the result files which can be viewed with the PerformanceTest. For those who don't have PerformanceTest, please see the BenchmarkResults.zip.

 

Conclusion:

VMware Fusion is much faster than Parallels Desktop, especially when it comes to 3D graphics. But there is one thing that I don't understand: When I encode video from RMVB to PMP-AVC with Windmencoder (it's a GUI for mencoder), I have about 80 fps in Parallels vs 60 fps in VMware Fusion.

PerformanceTest.zip

BenchmarkResults.zip

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