VMware Fusion Stuns VirtualBox In CPU Tests

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 10 August 2012 at 09:15 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 11 Comments.
VirtualBox vs. VMware Fusion - OS X Mountain Lion

TTSIOD 3D Renderer, another very interesting test profile, was surprisingly 44% faster with VMware Fusion over VirtualBox when both virtualization platforms were running on their latest stable releases.

VirtualBox vs. VMware Fusion - OS X Mountain Lion

For VP8 video encoding, VMware Fusion was also faster.

VirtualBox vs. VMware Fusion - OS X Mountain Lion

The x264 video encoding test was just another example of VMware Fusion beating out VirtualBox.

VirtualBox vs. VMware Fusion - OS X Mountain Lion

The Himeno Poisson Pressure Solver results were nearly identical.

VirtualBox vs. VMware Fusion - OS X Mountain Lion

VMware Fusion was a tiny bit faster at building out a vanilla Linux kernel.


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