If you've seen my previous video on this topic,
you would know that Parallels running Windows 10 ARM
actually performed pretty well
when we benchmarked it using Geekbench 5
through Parallels using both four and eight cores.
Now, in this test,
I wanted to do a little bit more real-world testing,
so I'm actually using Cinebench,
which should hopefully give us a little bit of an indication
of just how powerful the current setup
with Parallels, Windows 10 and the M1 Macs is.
So let's just dive straight into the video.
Okay, so before we get into Parallels,
let's just do a quick test of Cinebench,
running on the M1 Mac just on native macOS.
So if you've been watching my channel,
I did this test a few days ago in my comparison
between the MacBook Pro and the M1 Mac mini.
And they both scored pretty much exactly the same.
So let's start with single core.
As you can see here,
the single core score is very, very impressive at 1,520
and you can see here,
there's really not much else that can compete with that.
It completely destroys
pretty much every Intel chip out there
and including even some of the Ryzen Threadripper chips.
But as we all know,
single core performance isn't everything.
For a more real-world score,
we can look at the multi core.
So if we switch this comparisons to multi core,
you can see here, we've got 7,794,
which makes the M1 an extremely competitive chip,
especially because as you can see here,
we are stacked up against some fairly high-end chips.
So this Intel Core i9-9880H
is only 1.17 times faster than the M1 chip.
And obviously, once we get up the top here,
these are some really expensive and powerful CPUs,
so I don't think it's obviously fair
to compare against these.
But this particular multi core score
is still very, very impressive.
All right, so the first benchmark we're going to do
is actually on Cinebench in Parallels.
Now, I've set up this particular Parallels instance
to only be utilizing four cores out of the M1 Mac
and this is actually what Parallels recommends you to use.
And then in the next test,
we will switch this to eights cores
and we'll see how they stack up against each other.
Okay, so starting off with the single core score,
you can see there we scored a pretty measly 511 points
and if we come down to the comparison charts,
you can see it ends up near the bottom
of all the other competitors.
So not too great performance here.
Now, if we switch over to multi core,
we've got 1,833
and again, right down the bottom of the scoreboard,
so really not super, super good performance
but again, this is only using four cores
and at the end of the day,
this is all being done inside a virtual machine.
All right, now if we shut down that particular VM
and we come back into the settings of Parallels,
let's actually come here
and let's change the processors from four to eight.
So I'll pop in the password
and we'll change this to eight.
And we will save this again
and now we're going to relaunch Windows 10
through Parallels and we're going to do the test again,
using all eight cores through Cinebench.
Okay, so we are nearly finished the Cinebench benchmark.
So what we'll do, first of all,
is we'll just check out the temperature of the Mac mini.
Now, if we come to TG Pro,
we can see that the CPU itself
is only around 65 degrees Celsius,
ranging between 65 to 70 degrees Celsius,
which is quite cool.
And also the main fan is on and is spinning
but it's only at a low rating of 1,700 rpms or thereabouts,
so it's very, very low.
You can't actually hear it.
And if I touch the top of the Mac,
it's not very warm at all.
And I get pretty much the exact same thermal performance
and results on the MacBook Pro as well.
So if we close down the temperature
and come into Activity Monitor,
if we look at the Activity Monitor CPU page,
it's very interesting
'cause you can see that 100% of the CPU is actually in use.
So idle, we've got pretty much 0%
and the system's using pretty much 99.5%.
So it's good to see.
It means that Parallels is utilizing everything
that's available to it.
And as you can see here,
Windows 10 via Parallels
is the application taking up the most CPU time.
Switching to the Memory tab, pretty self-explanatory.
Obviously, you're going to be maxing out your RAM
if you've only got eight gigabytes of RAM here.
So like I said in previous videos,
definitely do get the 16-gigabyte model
if you're looking to do a lot of VMs.
But going back to CPU,
yeah, very impressive to see
that it's pretty much maxing out
everything that's available.
So let's shut this down
and let's give it a few more minutes
and I'll come back to you with the multi core
and also the single core scores.
Okay, now that we have finished both the multi core
and the single core scores on the eight core version
of Parallels, let's have a look at the results.
So starting with single core.
We were only scoring 513 points,
which again is not very impressive at all.
You can see we're ranking right down the bottom here.
And for the multi core,
we were getting 2,700.
And if we switch the ranking to multi core,
again not very impressive at all.
We are right down the bottom.
Now, if you do remember before,
we were getting about 15 to 1,700
for the single core scores
and around 8,000 using Cinebench natively on macOS.
So this is a huge performance drop compared to that.
But again, it's kind of to be expected
because remember, this is obviously a virtual machine,
so this isn't able to take advantage
of all the hardware and all of the power
that the M1 chip is able to provide.
But I think even with these scores here
so early on in the development of Parallels
and also Windows ARM on the M1 Macs,
I think this particular score here
is definitely good enough for most day-to-day tasks
but for more of the hardcore things, possibly not
but again, we're not going to know
until we can od some more testing on this topic.
So just going back to the Desktop of Windows for a second,
you see I've got a few apps here
and I've tried to do some more benchmarking.
So 3DMark does not work.
The 64-bit version doesn't open
and the 32-bit version does
but it doesn't actually let me do the benchmark.
It just says there's an error when I try to run it.
And you can see that my particular build is Build 21277,
which technically should have the emulation for x64 apps
but unfortunately, I'm not really getting
much luck with that.
If I do try to open these particular apps,
they just don't seem to work
and even x64 games like Valorant
just don't work either.
So it's still very, very early stages.
But obviously, I'm going to be doing some more testing
on this topic as updates come out in the future.
Anyway, guys, thanks for watching.
Any questions or comments, please leave them below.
But apart from that,
hope you enjoyed the video
and I will catch you in the next one.