Parallels Outperforms VMware in Virtualization Tests

MacTech has completed a huge benchmarking project in which they tested the performance of VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop. They tested Windows OS and commonly used Windows applications paying close attention to 3D graphics and gaming.

In their exhaustive eight page report, MacTech concludes that "both VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop for Mac are excellent products, and both allow you to run Windows XP and Windows 7 quite well (except for graphics in VMware Fusion under 7). In the end, your decision as to which product you should take into account what's most important to you: speed, footprint, graphics capabilities, features, user interface, OS you want to run, and more all come into play."

That being said, in a majority of overall test averages, Parallels Desktop 5 is the clear winner running 30% faster than VMware Fusion 3.0.1 with Windows XP, and 43% faster with Windows 7.


Parallels' performance advantage is even more apparent when looking at graphics. "If gaming, graphics, and 3D are your thing, you have no choice. Parallels Desktop 5 has so much better graphics support, and is so much faster in most of the comparisons, there's simply no contest."

Hit the link below for the detailed comparison and analysis...

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