That’s why we used both a MacBook Pro and mid-level Mac Pro in the tests. Neither company claimed that our testing procedure or the configuration of our virtual machines were incorrect or unfair.ģ) Other than providing licenses for both Fusion 8 and Parallels Desktop 11 for our tests, TekRevue was not remunerated by either company in any way, nor were the tests conducted or guided by anyone outside of TekRevue.Ĥ) These products, and our review, are primarily targeted at consumers. You’ll find this information on the ironically named “Test Setup & Methodology” page.Ģ) We submitted our results and methodology to both Parallels and VMware to give each company a chance to respond.

Let me clarify for you:ġ) The exact models and specifications for the testing hardware are listed in the article, along with the methodology used for the tests.

VirtualBox unsurprisingly takes a distant last place in all three tests, owing mostly to its poor 3D capabilities and low efficiency when scaling up to multithreaded workloads. This test includes portions of light 3D gaming, and Fusion’s lead here is primarily due to its superior performance this year with games, as we saw in the earlier 3DMark and FurMark tests. There is a wider gap (about 17 percent) between Parallels and Fusion in the Home test. In the Microsoft Office test, which focuses on creating and modifying documents and spreadsheets in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Parallels scores about 2.5 percent higher, while the scores for the Creative Cloud test, which looks at Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and After Effects, are effectively equal (a 0.2 percent difference). With PCMark, we see how close in performance Parallels 11 and Fusion 8 truly are when it comes to real world usage scenarios. Of note, PCMark by default runs each test three times per benchmark cycle, so each test was only manually initiated once per Windows installation.

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