Primate Labs’ Geekbench is a cross-platform benchmark application that measures system processing and memory performance. For all other tests, results were recorded in the same format as they were reported by their respective benchmark applications. The results for each sequence of tests were averaged to obtain the reported results.įor time measurements, results were rounded to the nearest whole second. All tests were then repeated with Desktop 9.Įach test was performed three times for each virtual machine on each version of Parallels Desktop, with the exception of the boot, shut down, suspend, and resume tests, which were performed five times.
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We then performed a full uninstall of Parallels Desktop 8, installed Parallels Desktop 9, and then imported the existing virtual machines into version 9. We first installed the latest version of Parallels Desktop 8 and created two virtual machines, one each for Windows 7 and Windows 8, and performed all of the tests described below. For tests where a significant difference was apparent, Windows 8 results are included and noted. There were no significant differences in most tests between Windows 7 and Windows 8 virtual machines. Note that most tests cite only Windows 7 results for the sake of simplicity in reading the charts. All operating systems were updated with the latest publicly available patches and updates.įor tests that cite “native” performance, we used Windows 7 Enterprise 圆4 installed via Boot Camp on the MacBook Pro.
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Our host operating system is OS X 10.8.4 Mountain Lion, and our guest operating systems were Windows 7 Enterprise 圆4 and Windows 8 Pro 圆4. Our tests were performed on a 2012 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display, equipped with a quad-core 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU, 16 GB of RAM, and a 256 GB SSD. As a follow-up to our virtualization benchmark showdown last fall, we began testing the new version immediately and we have some preliminary benchmarks to share. Version 9 brings many new features to the virtualization game, but Parallels also promises significant performance improvements.
Parallels released Parallels Desktop 9, the latest version of the company’s virtualization software, early Thursday.
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