Not necessarily in my experience! Most games don't hit the CPU particularly hard. Mostly reliant on (hardware offloaded) network latency, memory, and storage.

Not necessarily in my experience! Most games don't hit the CPU particularly hard. Mostly reliant on (hardware offloaded) network latency, memory, and storage. Consistency being the thing of most importance. A spike is felt - interpolation can only go so far CPU virtualization extensions make the latency cost of VMs hardly noticeable, containers are technically better but it's a split hair. On an unloaded host and a single VM you can achieve essentially identical performance as bare metal - the CPU extensions, pinning cores, and huge pages are key Some performance metrics even improve! Disk operations tend to do better from an added layer of memory involvement Edit: there are options for multi-tenant fairness whichever way you go -- Bare metal, VMs, or containers Performance isn't much of a worry, more so the 'handles'