Windows 8 vs Windows 7 Whos The Quickest?

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Windows 8

(64-bit)

Startup

(seconds, lower is better)

38

17

Shutdown

(seconds, lower is better)

12.2

9.9

500MB File Group Move

(seconds, lower is better)

25.2

29.2

Large Single File Move

(seconds, lower is better)

46.4

46.8

Video Rendering

(minutes:seconds, smaller is better)

1:22

1:11

Geekbench 2.3 64-bit tests

(higher is better)

8090

8187

Geekbench 2.3 32-bit tests

(higher is better)

5962

6122

PCMark 7

(higher is better)

2313

2701

Sunspider

(ms, lower is better)

180

144

Google V8 (v.7)

(higher is better)

3079

6180

Psychedelic Browsing

(higher is better)

3997

5292

As you can see from these results above, in [url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406668,00.asp" target="_blank">PCMag’s testing, Windows 8 practically won all around. What’s particularly impressive is the start up times. Windows 8 has cut the start up time in half down to a speedy 17 seconds. The reason being that Windows 8 saves a copy of the system state and memory contents to the harddrive and then simply reloads this once you restart. This is why it’s so much quicker at starting up as it doesn’t have to go and load everything from scratch.

We can also expect to see this start up time reduced even further when new laptops, tablets, PCs etc.. are released with SSD hard drives and UEFI that will dramatically improve these start up times even further.

It’s also quite apparent that Microsoft have worked hard on improving the browser performance in Windows 8. Internet Explorer 10 was miles ahead of IE 9. The javascript engine has been dramatically been improved and optimised. Sunspider and Google’s V8 tests show a big improvement in load times and processing times which is great news for us all.

The PCMark 7 benchmark test which runs 7 different systems tests that are designed to test out everything also shows a big performance increase in Windows 8. In PCMags test, Windows 8 was up by 388 points.

Head over to [url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406668,00.asp" target="_blank">PCMag if you want to check out the full post in a bit more detail.

It’s good to see that there is some real significant improvement with Windows 8 over Windows 7, and bear in mind that this is still not the final release of Windows 8. We can only expect that Microsoft are busy tweaking the final few lines of code to get every last bit of performance out of Windows 8.

Source:

[url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406668,00.asp" target="_blank">PcMag

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