Geekbench
We’ll begin our Fusion 8 benchmarks with the popular cross-platform benchmarking tool, Geekbench. Available for virtually every modern computing platform — Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, and iOS — Geekbench aims to provide universally comparable scores of relative performance across multiple device types. It’s important to note, however, that Geekbench tests only a device’s CPU and memory performance, and doesn’t look at other important areas such as graphics or storage.
We ran the 64-bit benchmark test three times on each Windows installation using Geekbench 3.3.2, the latest version as of the date of publication. Geekbench reports two sets of results: one for single-core performance and one for multi-core performance. We’ll start with single-core results, below:
With the exception of a negligible difference in memory performance, Fusion 8 offers modest single-core CPU improvements over Fusion 7. Like we saw with Parallels 11 last week, CPU-based tasks are very close to native performance, with Fusion 8 trailing Boot Camp by only about 3 percent in processor calculations, and by 7.5 percent in memory speed.
Multi-Core performance tells a similar story, with Fusion 8’s largest advantage resting in a roughly 5 percent jump in floating point performance, while both Fusion 7 and Fusion 8 show excellent near-native results when compared to Boot Camp.
Table of Contents
2. Fusion 8 New Features & Overview
3. Hardware, Software, and Testing Methodology
4. Geekbench
5. 3DMark (2013)
6. 3DMark06
7. FurMark OpenGL Benchmark
8. Cinebench R15
10. Passmark PerformanceTest 8.0
11. x264 Encoding
12. x265 Encoding
13. File Transfers
14. Virtual Machine Management
15. Conclusions
