VMware Graphics Gallium3D vs. VirtualBox Testing the performance of the VMware vmwgfx Gallium3D stack using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as of 6 February. Ubuntu 11.10 host was used with VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240.x86_64 for compatibility. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com. Also results compared to VirtualBox 4.1.8 on same host albeit with slightly different VM settings as noted/explained in article.
HTML result view exported from: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1202079-BY-VMWAREGFX89 .
VMware Graphics Gallium3D vs. VirtualBox Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Network Monitor OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution System Layer System Host VirtualBox 4.1.8 VMware Player 4.0.2 Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores) LENOVO 4318CTO Intel Core DMI 4096MB 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160 NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (550/790MHz) Conexant CX20585 Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 Ubuntu 11.10 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64) Unity 4.22.0 X Server 1.10.4 NVIDIA 280.13 3.3.0 NVIDIA GCC 4.6.1 ext4 1600x900 Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.59GHz (4 Cores) innotek VirtualBox v1.2 Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC 2048MB 30GB VBOX HDD Chromium Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio VBOX monitor Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-14-generic (x86_64) Unity 5.2.0 X Server 1.11.3 vboxvideo 1.0.1 2.1 GCC 4.6 1024x768 VirtualBox 4.1.8 Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores) Intel 440BX Intel 440BX/ZX/DX 3584MB 32GB VMware Virtual S VMware SVGA II Ensoniq ES1371 Intel 82545EM Gigabit vmware 11.99.901 2.1 Mesa 8.0-rc2 Gallium 0.4 1600x1200 VMware OpenBenchmarking.org System Details - System Host, VirtualBox 4.1.8: Compiz was running on this system.
VMware Graphics Gallium3D vs. VirtualBox lightsmark: 1600 x 1200 nexuiz: 1600 x 1200 - No - Off openarena: 1600 x 1200 lightsmark: 800 x 600 nexuiz: 800 x 600 - No - Off openarena: 800 x 600 System Host VirtualBox 4.1.8 VMware Player 4.0.2 45.69 347.20 205.02 85.01 345.43 12.60 16.53 12.70 16.83 34.24 30.19 78.60 57.96 33.59 82.63 OpenBenchmarking.org
Lightsmark Resolution: 1600 x 1200 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Lightsmark 2008 Resolution: 1600 x 1200 VMware Player 4.0.2 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 34.24
Nexuiz Resolution: 1600 x 1200 - HDR: No - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1600 x 1200 - HDR: No - Sound: Off System Host VirtualBox 4.1.8 VMware Player 4.0.2 10 20 30 40 50 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 45.69 12.60 30.19
OpenArena Resolution: 1600 x 1200 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1600 x 1200 System Host VirtualBox 4.1.8 VMware Player 4.0.2 80 160 240 320 400 SE +/- 3.79, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.46, N = 3 347.20 16.53 78.60
Lightsmark Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Lightsmark 2008 Resolution: 800 x 600 System Host VMware Player 4.0.2 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.75, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 205.02 57.96
Nexuiz Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: No - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: No - Sound: Off System Host VirtualBox 4.1.8 VMware Player 4.0.2 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 1.17, N = 6 85.01 12.70 33.59
OpenArena Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 800 x 600 System Host VirtualBox 4.1.8 VMware Player 4.0.2 80 160 240 320 400 SE +/- 6.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 1.34, N = 4 345.43 16.83 82.63
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