Parallels Standard faster than Pro? Windows gaming on M1 Mac compared: 16 vs 32 GB RAM, 8 vs 10 CPU

Parallels Standard faster than Pro? Windows gaming on M1 Mac compared: 16 vs 32 GB RAM, 8 vs 10 CPU

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This is a quick test to show the Windows gaming difference between a Windows 11 ARM virtual machine with 4 CPU cores + 8 GB RAM and 5 CPU cores + 16 GB RAM. It's surprising that in some benchmarks the 5 CPU core 16 GB RAM VM performs substantially worse, and in other benchmarks there is barely any difference.

If anyone can help to reproduce the results and help to explain the reasoning I would be grateful, please leave a comment!

Parallels article about Standard vs Pro editions: https://kb.parallels.com/123296

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► Timestamps:
00:00 What is Parallels?
00:49 How much RAM and CPU for the VM?
02:08 Parallels Standard vs Pro
02:49 Which edition is best for M1?
03:23 Which edition is best for M1 Pro and M1 Max?
03:52 Standard vs Pro cost
04:18 Testing methodology
04:50 Geekbench 5
05:17 GTA V
05:47 Hitman Absolution
06:18 Halo: Reach
06:51 Skyrim
07:13 Explanation: why 5 CPU cores is slower
07:52 Parallels Standard edition is best?

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