Battle of the VM: macOS VS Windows 10 Pro

[Zer0Nin3r]

SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!!

Come witness the Battle of the VM's live in 3-D!

Chaos and Mayhem guaranteed!

 

Greetings @everyone! I am curious to know your thoughts on which OS running inside a VM will give me the best performance. I edit photos in Lightroom, Photoshop, and Lumen. Video editing is also something I do with FCP X. While my primary workflow has been macOS based, I am open to the idea of installing my Adobe programs on a Windows VM if that means I will get better performance.

 

My thoughts and assumptions:

• Windows is "VM friendly"
  • Meaning, it knows when it is being ran as a VM. I would imagine that Windows will optimize itself automatically under these conditions.
  • Windows will make better, more efficient use of the resources available to the VM.
• macOS
  • Thinks it's running on Apple hardware, but because we are using "magic" to trick the OS into working for a hypervisor as a guest VM, we will take a hit in performance.
  • While we are able to pass an Nvidia GPU onto the macOS VM, this will increase performance, but because we are hacking the OS, we are susceptible to degraded performance.
  • It's well known that Apple isn't bleeding edge technology. That being said, performance will/may lag behind that of Windows workstations when compared in performing tasks such as rendering.

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As mentioned in the other thread, cpu performance is the same (from my own testing) but windows handles GPU performance better (sometimes as much as 40% better performance.)

 

Bu with that aid, I use osx because I can't stand windows and my home ecosystem is mac.