Windows 7 Outperforms Vista and XP
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 6th, 2009 at 2:22PM
Forget benchmarking utilities. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDNet put together 23 real-world scenarios to see which operating system would be the quickest to complete the tasks. He tested the 32-bit versions of Windows 7 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400, Windows Vista SP1, and Windows XP SP3. He tested all three OSs on two different rigs:
- An AMD Phenom 9700 2.4GHz system with an ATI Radeon HD3850 and 4GB of RAM
- An Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200 2.2GHz with an NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS and 1GB of RAM
Windows 7 managed to outperform both Vista and XP on both. Kingsley’s scoring system was to give a 1 to the OS that finished each test first, a 2 for second place, and a 3 for third. The results were as follows (Lowest score wins obviously):
Windows 7 – 50 combined points
Windows Vista – 109 combined points
Windows XP – 117 combined points
The results are unbelievable in my opinion. Let’s hope that it’s true though. Windows 7 still has a while yet before the final release is done, and many things could change since then. More than likely those changes will be for the good.
