If you read our earlier benchmarks focused on Parallels 11 and Fusion 8 individually, you know that CPU performance is quite good, with both products able to offer near-native speed in the types of single-core tests run by Geekbench. We’ll start with single-core results, below: Geekbench reports two sets of results: one for single-core performance and one for multi-core performance. 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. It’s important to note, however, that Geekbench only tests a device’s CPU and memory performance, and doesn’t look at other important areas such as graphics or storage. 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. Fusion 8 benchmarks start with the popular cross-platform benchmarking tool, Geekbench.
