We Need Even More 3D Gaming Performance! Benchmarks included

[MacGamer404]

I have conducted two CINEBENCH benchmarks:
1) Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 ( 2.5GB RAM - other 1.5GB were taken by virtual machine )
2) Parallels Desktop 7 + Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit ( Hard drive: 128GB; RAM: 1.5GB, CPUs: 8 )

The testing machine is Macbook Pro 2011 with i7-2720QM quad core Sandy Bridge CPU and AMD Radeon HD 6750M GPU.
All the programs were shutdown before the benchmarks, and AMD Radeon GPU was selected using gfxCardStatus.

Summary:

1) CPU, CPU (Single Core), CPU MP ratio:
The difference between CPU benchmark results was very small: from 5% to 2%.
That means Parallels Desktop 7 has excellent CPU optimization.

2) OpenGL, OpenGL Reference Match:

The OpenGL Reference Match results were the same - 99.30%, which is a good news.

However, the difference between OpenGL benchmarks was really disappointing:
while Mac OS X result was equal to 39.02, the Parallels Desktop 7 achieved only 20.01 - nearly 2 times worse!
Maybe it is a good result for Virtual Machine, but for those people (like me) who uses VM as a replacement to Boot Camp,
it does not seems so.

Please, put more efforts in Parallels Graphics Drivers development and optimization!

 

[MacGamer404]

The great improvement of graphic drivers

I have conducted new CINEBENCH benchmarks today with a new version of Parallels Desktop 7 - 7.0.15055.740667
All the other parts of testing environment are the same as in previous time, just one exception: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 version.
All the programs were shutdown before the benchmarks, and AMD Radeon GPU was selected using gfxCardStatus.

Summary:

1) OpenGL Benchmark:

Mac OS X results: 38.87 (0.5% worse, don't know why)
Parallels Desktop 7 + Windows 7 Ultimate results: 28.79 (vs previous 20.01)

The benchmarks results are 1.5 times better than in previous time (1.44x, if to be specific),
and only 1.35 times worse than Mac OS X results - while earlier they were 2 times worse!

That graphic drivers improvement is really outstanding! Congratulations, Parallels Team!
If it will continue in such a way, no one will need Bootcamp for gaming anymore! ;-)

2) CPU Benchmarks and OpenGL Reference Match:
The results are the same as in previous time.

 

[WilliamPaul]

Hi MacGamer404,

I too agree with you they should put more effort in optimization and graphics driver development


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