[List of Test Results Collected with EUC Score Experiments]
VMware Horizon
Benchmarking different aspects of VMware Horizon and the Blast protocol. The test results presented here are a subset of the complete dataset collected during VMware Horizon test sequences. Click on a link below to navigate to a test sequence and select a Sync Player clip.
- TestDrive VM with NVIDIA L40-2Q GPU versus TestDrive VM without GPU
- Blast versus PCoIP connection to a VMware TestDrive VM with NVIDIA L40-2Q GPU
- Blast versus "Web Blast" connection to a VMware TestDrive VM with NVIDIA L40-2Q GPU
- VMware TestDrive 2022
VMware Test Drive 2023 - GPU versus No GPU
Test Engineer: Benny Tritsch
Date of test: 19 Oct 2023
Test Goal
Explore the difference between a Blast connection to a VMware TestDrive VM with NVIDIA L40-2Q GPU versus a VM without GPU.
Selected Sync Player Clips
| Simload and Link | View and Type | Observation | |
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SL1-MSEdgeAquariumWebGL | SxS View - GPU | Very smooth animation at 60fps with GPU (10% load). The CPU load goes to almost 100% without GPU, but renders only 4fps and is choppy. |
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SL1-MSEdgeVideoGrid9 | SxS View - GPU | Video decode can be offloaded to GPU and produces significantly higher video frame rate at the price of a 4 times higher network consumption. |
Summary of Test Observations
Adding a GPU significantly improves the perceived remote user experience, despite the 175ms round trip time of the connections.
Test Setup Details
TestDrive VM with NVIDIA L40-2Q
TestDrive VM with no GPU
System Under Test: VMware TestDrive, Windows 11, Intel Xeon Gold 6330 2x2vCPUs @ 2.00GHz, 8GB RAM, 120GB Storage, NVIDIA L40-2Q GPU.
System Under Test: VMware TestDrive, Windows 11, Intel Xeon Gold 6330 2x2vCPUs @ 2.00GHz, 8GB RAM, 120GB Storage, no GPU.
Connection: VMware Blast from the EUC Score lab in Germany to VMware TestDrive in the US, 175ms round trip time.
Connection: VMware Blast from the EUC Score lab in Germany to VMware TestDrive in the US, 175ms round trip time.
Endpoint: NUC2, Intel NUC 8i7HNK with Windows 11, i7-8705G CPU @ 3.10GHz, 16GB RAM, 500GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2, AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL, 4GB VRAM.
Endpoint: NUC2, Intel NUC 8i7HNK with Windows 11, i7-8705G CPU @ 3.10GHz, 16GB RAM, 500GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2, AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL, 4GB VRAM.
VMware Test Drive 2023 - Blast versus PCoIP
Test Engineer: Benny Tritsch
Date of test: 19 Oct 2023
Test Goal
Analyze the difference between a high-latency Blast connection versus a high-latency PCoIP connection to a VMware TestDrive VM with an NVIDIA L40-2Q GPU partition.
Selected Sync Player Clips
| Simload and Link | View and Type | Observation | |
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SL1-FurMarkOpenGL | SxS View - GPU | Smooth rendering at 60fps with Blast (35% GPU load). Choppy rendering at 15fps with PCoIP (2% GPU load). |
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SL1-RollercoasterDX9 | SxS View - GPU | 60fps on the Blast side. 15fps, choppy rendering and significantly higher bandwidth requirements on the PCoIP side. |
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SL1-MSEdgeVideoGrid | SxS View - GPU | Great video quality with Blast. Very choppy videos with PCoIP. Note the different usage of the GPU's video decoder. |
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SL3-GDIPlusRect | SxS View - GPU | Score: 1.88 with Blast, 1.9 with PCoIP (smaller is better). Very choppy screen output on the PCoIP side. |
Summary of Test Observations
With a network round trip time of 175ms, the Blast connection performs better than the PCoIP connection for many Simloads. IMPORTANT: The results may be a lot more in favour of PCoIP under low latency network conditions.
Test Setup Details
TestDrive VM with Blast Protocol
TestDrive VM with PCoIP Protocol
System Under Test: VMware TestDrive, Windows 11, Intel Xeon Gold 6330 2x2vCPUs @ 2.00GHz, 8GB RAM, 120GB Storage, NVIDIA L40-2Q.
System Under Test: VMware TestDrive, Windows 11, Intel Xeon Gold 6330 2x2vCPUs @ 2.00GHz, 8GB RAM, 120GB Storage, NVIDIA L40-2Q.
Connection: Blast from the EUC Score lab in Germany to VMware TestDrive in the US, 175ms round trip time.
Connection: PCoIP from the EUC Score lab in Germany to VMware TestDrive in the US, 175ms round trip time.
Endpoint: NUC2, Intel NUC 8i7HNK with Windows 11, i7-8705G CPU @ 3.10GHz, 16GB RAM, 500GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2, AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL, 4GB VRAM.
Endpoint: NUC2, Intel NUC 8i7HNK with Windows 11, i7-8705G CPU @ 3.10GHz, 16GB RAM, 500GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2, AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL, 4GB VRAM.
VMware Test Drive 2023 - Blast versus "Web Blast"
Test Engineer: Benny Tritsch
Date of test: 19 Oct 2023
Test Goal
Compare a high-latency Blast connection from the full Horizon client with a high-latency Blast connection from a Chrome browser ("Web Blast").
Selected Sync Player Clips
| Simload and Link | View and Type | Observation | |
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SL1-ChromePhotoGalleryJS | SxS View - STD | Smooth animation on the Blast side. Slightly choppy animation and transitions on the Web Blast side. |
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SL1-MSEdgeVideoConf6 | SxS View - STD | Very good video performance on the Blast side. Choppy videos on the Web Blast side. |
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SL1-RollercoasterDX9 | SxS View - STD | 10 to 15fps on the Blast side. Lower frame rate and artifacts on the Web Blast side. |
Summary of Test Observations
Perceived user experience is the same for most Simloads, independently if connected from the full Horizon client or from a Chrome web browser. But some Simloads show different results, depneding on the nature of the application running in the remote session.
Test Setup Details
TestDrive VM with Blast Protocol
TestDrive VM with PCoIP Protocol
System Under Test: VMware TestDrive, Windows 11, Intel Xeon Gold 6330 2x2vCPUs @ 2.00GHz, 8GB RAM, 120GB Storage.
System Under Test: VMware TestDrive, Windows 11, Intel Xeon Gold 6330 2x2vCPUs @ 2.00GHz, 8GB RAM, 120GB Storage.
Connection: Blast from the EUC Score lab in Germany to VMware TestDrive in the US, 175ms round trip time.
Connection: "Web Blast" from the EUC Score lab in Germany to VMware TestDrive in the US, 175ms round trip time.
Endpoint: NUC2, Intel NUC 8i7HNK with Windows 11, i7-8705G CPU @ 3.10GHz, 16GB RAM, 500GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2, AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL, 4GB VRAM.
Endpoint: NUC2, Intel NUC 8i7HNK with Windows 11, i7-8705G CPU @ 3.10GHz, 16GB RAM, 500GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2, AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL, 4GB VRAM.
VMware Test Drive 2022
Test Engineer: Benny Tritsch
Date of test: 22 May 2022
Test Goal
Measure the perceived user experience over a Blast connection from the EUC Score lab in Germany toa GPU-accelerated session hosted on VMware Test Drive located in VMware's Houston datacenter.
Selected Sync Player Clips
| Simload and Link | View and Type | Observation | |
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SL1-BSPBlendingDX11 | Single View - GPU | Great application response time despite 130ms network round trip time. 3D load stays low, showing the power of the NVIDIA V100 GPU. |
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SL1-ChromeFishbowlHTML5 | Single View - GPU | Growing outgoing network bandwidth on growing number of fish objects in the bowl. |
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SL1-DominoOpenGL | Single View - GPU | VMware Horizon limits the frame rate on the session side to 60fps, keeping CPU and GPU consumption low. |
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SL1-MSEdgeVideoConf6 | Single View - GPU | Decoding of the six videos is offloaded to the GPU, keeping CPU consumption low. |
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SL1-MSEdgeWaterWebGL | Single View - GPU | Rendering of the water after user interaction at highest quality level. |
Summary of Test Observations
The VMware Test Drive VM shows outstanding performance despite 130ms round trip time.
Test Setup Details
- System Under Test: VMware Test Drive, Windows 10, Xeon Gold 6140 4vCPUs @ 2.3GHz, 8GB RAM, VMware Virtual disk SCSI Disk Device 150GB, NVIDIA GRID V100-2Q vGPU, 2GB VRAM.
- Connection: VMware Blast, 130ms round trip time.
- Endpoint: NUC2, Intel NUC 8i7HNK with Windows 11, i7-8705G CPU @ 3.10GHz, 16GB RAM, 500GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2, AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL, 4GB VRAM.