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Parallels Best CPU/RAM Settings! Windows 11 ARM gaming on M1 Mac benchmarks



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This video is a followup to my previous video – Parallels Standard faster than Pro? Windows gaming on M1 Mac compared:

In this video I discuss the performance difference in games between 1-10 CPU core allocation on Parallels Windows 11 ARM virtual machines. In my testing I discover that performance is variable but generally speaking, 6 CPU cores works performs the best in most games, despite the fact that this is over 50% of the CPU core allocation of my M1 Max chip (which has only 10 CPU cores).

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