{"id":98,"date":"2009-08-11T12:06:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2011-11-04T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:56:35","slug":"windows-7-in-fusion-the-6432-bit-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 in Fusion: The 64\/32-Bit Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left; \">I created a Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit VM and a 64-bit VM. \u00a0I wanted to see which provides better performance. \u00a0Since VMware Tools aren&#8217;t ready I treaded lightly with my tests.\u00a0\u00a0Other caveats: \u00a0VMware Fusion does not support Windows 7 yet. \u00a0These are PassMark tests and not real world tests. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t run endless tests &#8211; just a handful. \u00a0Your milage may vary (greatly!). \u00a0The performance is based on Win7 32-bit (32\/32). \u00a0The results are:<\/p>\n<h3>Win7 64-bit Running PassMark 65-bit (64\/64)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; \">29% faster on CPU<br \/>\n178% faster on 2D graphics<br \/>\n36% faster on Memory<br \/>\n<em>19% slower on disk operations<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Win7 64-bit Running PassMark 32-bit (64\/32)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; \">11% faster on CPU<br \/>\n13% faster on 2D graphics<br \/>\n11% faster on Memory<br \/>\n<em>35% faster on disk operations<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; \">I was perplexed on the 64\/64 disk performance being slower than the baseline and re-ran the test a handful of times and got similar results. \u00a064\/64 2D graphic results were impressive but not a driving factor for me. \u00a0For CPU and Memory 64\/64 showed a nice bump over 32\/32 and even 64\/32. \u00a0In the end, the issue of whether to move to 64-bit Windows 7 is moot for me &#8211; the driver I need is only available in 32-bit so I&#8217;ll be running 32\/32.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; \">Here are all the versions used in the testing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; \">VMware Fusion Version 2.0.5 (173382)<br \/>\nMicrosoft Windows 7 Enterprise [Version 6.1.7600]<br \/>\nVMware Tools for Windows Version 7.9.6. build-173382<br \/>\nPassMark PerformanceTest 6.1 (1010) WIN32<br \/>\nPassMark PerformanceTest 6.1 (1018) WIN64<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I created a Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit VM and a 64-bit VM. \u00a0I wanted to see which provides better performance. \u00a0Since VMware Tools aren&#8217;t ready I treaded lightly with my tests.\u00a0\u00a0Other caveats: \u00a0VMware Fusion does not support Windows 7 yet. \u00a0These are PassMark tests and not real world tests. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t run endless tests &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=98\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows 7 in Fusion: The 64\/32-Bit Question<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware-fusion","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}