I just benchmarked both Virtualbox and VMWare running Ubuntu 18.04 guest on Windows 10 host. Benchmark was using hardinfo
. Both had the same system configuration, 4 CPU cores, 2GB RAM, 20GB disk, 3D acceleration enabled. As you can see from the scores below VMWare beats Virtualbox in almost every benchmark, except the GPU Drawing bench where it's more than 25x slower. What's going on here? Computer is an Asus ROG with i7-6700HQ, 8GB RAM, 1TB 850Evo SSD, GTX960M
The interesting thing is, general window UI responsiveness is way way better using VMWare.
Bench Higher/Lower Is Better Vbox VMWare
CPU Blowfish Lower 3.23 2.60
CPU Cryptohash Higher 385.00 477.16
CPU Fibonacci Lower 1.56 0.64
CPU N-Queens Lower 6.91 6.69
CPU Zlib Lower 0.36 0.43
FPU FFT Lower 1.34 1.20
FPU Raytracing Lower 3.27 2.25
GPU Drawing Higher 11231.31 428.77