Hi;
I'm trying out WS 12.0.1, and decided to see how much the 3D performance of WS 12 has been improved over WS 11. I seem to be finding that the performance has actually gone down. This is on a Windows 7 pro 64-bit host (Nvidia GTX 780 using 358.91 drivers) running a Windows 7 64 guest.
Are others seeing this?
I tried running a few benchmarks I had lying around. Here are the results:
Unigine 'Heaven 2.1', DirectX 9 setting, (1920 x 1200)
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WS 11 with Guest at Hardware version 11: Score= 1,806 / 71.7 FPS
WS 12 with Guest Hardware version 12 : Score= 1,107 / 43.9 FPS (Seems 'Jerkier' than under WS 11)
FutureMark 3DMark06, Directx 9 (I think) (1920 x 1200)
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WS 11 with Guest at Hardware version 11: Score= 18,157
WS 12 with Guest Hardware version 12 : Score= 14,845
Furmark 1.17.0 (OpenGL) (using HD 1080 benchmark preset)
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WS 11 with Guest at Hardware version 11: Score= 3,250 / 54 FPS
WS 12 with Guest Hardware version 12 : Score= 2,599 / 43
RTHDRIBL 1.2 (DirectX 9) (1920 x 1200)
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WS 11 with Guest at Hardware version 11: 206 FPS
WS 12 with Guest Hardware version 12 : 93 FPS
So far, it looks like I'm seeing 3D performance degradation in every test I try.
I'm not sure if the WS 12 runs are using graphics features that the Workstation 11 ones are not. But if so, It's not immediately obvious.
This is using the 'recommended' 1GB of video ram size specified in VM Guest settings. (My actual video card has 3,072 MB of Video RAM).
I'm hoping I'm missing something, because my understanding was that Workstation 12 was supposed to have 'improved' 3D performance.
Thanks