Windows 7 Benchmarks

Martin | Dec 12, 2008 | Comments

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One of the most important aspects of the new Windows 7 operating system is performance. If you were an early adopter of Windows Vista you might especially be interested in how Windows 7 compares to Windows Vista but also with Windows XP. The latter is obviously more interesting to users who skipped Windows Vista to switch to the next Microsoft operating system.

Tests are obviously not final as there is currently no final version of Windows 7 available. The Windows 7 benchmark tests can nevertheless give a good indication of what users can expect from the operating system.

According to ZDnet who ran a series of four tests on Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 Build 6956, Windows Vista and Windows Vista SP1 it looks quite promising. Windows 7 was able to beat all other operating systems in three of the four tests and made second place in the fourth test.

What has been tested? The boot-up time was tested on all systems and the three benchmarking programs PassMark PerformanceTest, PCMark Vantage and CINEBENCH R10 were used to test the performance.

It is refreshing to see that Windows 7 is able to beat the other operating systems in this stage of development. There will be hopefully some room for further performance improvements in later builds.

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