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To assess Windows 7 performance, we spent more than 30 hours testing Windows 7 Professional x64 in a battery of benchmarks designed to measure application performance, network performance, disk performance, and finally, gaming. Our test rig was equipped with a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9770 Extreme processor, 4GB of DDR2 memory, a 1TB Barracuda 7200.12 drive, and an ATI Radeon 4890 videocard. To test gaming performance with both the ATI and Nvidia’s drivers, we used a manufacturer-overclocked GeForce GTX 285.
As you can see in our application benchmark chart, we saw wildly varying performance of different applications in Windows 7 x64, Windows XP x86 with Service Pack 3, and Windows Vista x64 with Service Pack 2. A few things really stood out, though. First, it seems that the hard drive performance problems that plagued early editions of Vista are solved once and for all in Windows 7. In our tests, Windows 7 was a few percent slower than XP SP3, but faster than Vista SP2.
| Windows XP (x86) | Windows Vista (x64) | Windows 7 (x64) | Percentage Difference: XP to Win 7 | Percentage Difference: Vista to Win 7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ProShow Producer (sec) | 826 | 1166 | 848 | -2.66% | +27.27% |
| Mainconcept Reference (sec) | 1649 | 1657 | 1653 | -0.24% | 0.24% |
| Premiere (sec) | 831 | 739 | 840 | -1.08% | -13.67% |
| Photoshop (sec) | 141 | 127 | 140 | +0.71% | -10.24% |
| PC Mark 2005 | |||||
| CPU | 9116 | 9076 | 8568 | -6.01% | -5.60% |
| Memory | 6459 | 6371 | 6463 | +0.06% | +1.44% |
| HDD | 8029 | 6782 | 7537 | -6.13% | +11.13% |
| PC Mark Vantage | |||||
| HDD | WNR | 4657 | 4728 | N/A | +1.52% |
Best scores in bold. Our test rig uses a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9770 Extreme CPU, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 HD, and an ATI 4890 videocard.
Most of our application benchmarks measure either multi-threaded CPU performance (Main Concept, ProShow), hard drive performance (PC Mark Vantage), or a real-world mixture of the two (Photoshop, Premiere). In all of our application benchmarks, Windows 7’s performance was within a stone’s throw of XP.
It’s also worth noting that in several of our tests Vista was actually a big winner, thanks to performance enhancements that hit in Vista Service Pack 2.
One of the main problems with Windows Vista prior to Service Pack 1 was poor network performance. Well, we’re happy to say that the days of waiting for files to copy across a network are done. Check the benchmarks and see for yourself—Windows 7 is stupid-fast at transferring files across a network.
| Windows XP (x86) | Windows Vista (x64) | Windows 7 (x64) | Percentage Difference: XP to Win 7 | Percentage Difference: Vista to Win 7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| File Transfer (small files) (sec) | |||||
| Download | 46.9 | 56.3 | 21.8 | +53.52% | +61.28% |
| Upload | 20.5 | 16.5 | 16.9 | +17.56% | -2.42% |
| File Transfer (large file) (sec) | |||||
| Download | 46.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | +91.13% | +4.65% |
| Upload | 4.9 | 4.6 | 3.9 | +20.41% | +15.22% |
Best scores in bold. Our test rig uses a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9770 Extreme CPU, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 HD, and an ATI 4890 videocard.
To test gaming performance, we ran a mix of DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 benchmarks on both ATI and Nvidia hardware. It’s important to remember when checking these scores, you shouldn’t be comparing ATI to Nvidia and vice versa. Instead, you should compare ATI’s and Nvidia’s respective scores on the different platforms to see who has the best drivers for Windows 7.
| Windows XP (x86) | Windows Vista (x64) | Windows 7 (x64) | Percentage Difference: XP to Win 7 | Percentage Difference: Vista to Win 7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DX 10 Benchmarks | |||||
| Far Cry 2 HQ (fps) | WNR | 52.9 | 53.1 | N/A | +0.38% |
| Far Cry 2 LQ (fps) | WNR | 57.8 | 58.4 | N/A | +1.04% |
| Crysis - Very High - no AA (fps) | WNR | 31.4 | 31.4 | N/A | +0.00% |
| Crysis - Very High - 4xAA (fps) | WNR | 27.5 | 27.6 | N/A | +0.36% |
| DX 9 Benchmarks | |||||
| Far Cry 2 HQ (fps) | 42 | 41.6 | 45.5 | +8.33% | +9.38% |
| Far Cry 2 LQ (fps) | 46.5 | 46 | 41.2 | -11.40% | -10.43% |
| Crysis - High - no AA (fps) | 47.7 | 44.4 | 41.6 | -12.79% | -6.31% |
| Crysis - High - 4xAA (fps) | 40 | 36.1 | 36 | -10.00% | -0.28% |
| Call of Duty 4 (fps) | 92.9 | 95.2 | 97.8 | +5.27% | +2.73% |
Best scores in bold. Our test rig uses a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9770 Extreme CPU, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 HD, and an ATI 4890 videocard.
In DirectX 10 benchmarks, both ATI and Nvidia chalked up almost identical scores in Vista and Windows 7. That’s to be expected, given that both companies are using a universal driver in Vista and Windows 7. That is, the driver in Windows 7 and Windows Vista are essentially the same.
However, everything changes when you get to DirectX 9 benchmarks. Depending on the benchmark, Windows 7 ranged from about 10% faster to about 10% slower than Windows Vista. What you gain in one benchmark, you lose in another. And, over the entire range of our DirectX 9 tests, everything ended up even.
| Windows XP (x86) | Windows Vista (x64) | Windows 7 (x64) | Percentage Difference: XP to Win 7 | Percentage Difference: Vista to Win 7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DX10 Benchmarks | |||||
| Far Cry 2 HQ (fps) | WNR | 62.7 | 62.8 | N/A | +.016% |
| Far Cry 2 LQ (fps) | WNR | 69.5 | 68.6 | N/A | -1.29% |
| Crysis - Very High - no AA (fps) | WNR | 30.1 | 30.1 | N/A | +0.00% |
| Crysis - Very High - 4xAA (fps) | WNR | 25.6 | 25.7 | N/A | +0.39% |
| DX 9 Benchmarks | |||||
| Far Cry 2 HQ (fps) | 47.5 | 50.5 | 46 | -3.16% | -8.91% |
| Far Cry 2 LQ (fps) | 52 | 46 | 51.4 | -1.15% | +11.74% |
| Crysis - High - no AA (fps) | 50.7 | 49.5 | 49.5 | -2.37% | +0.00% |
| Crysis - High - 4xAA (fps) | 39.7 | 39.7 | 40 | +0.76% | +0.76% |
| Call of Duty 4 (fps) | 121.4 | 114.9 | 116.9 | -3.71% | +1.74% |
Best scores in bold. Our test rig uses a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9770 Extreme CPU, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 HD, and a Nvidia Geforce GTX 285 videocard.
For gamers, especially those currently using Windows XP, there’s a strong reason to upgrade to Windows 7. You may sacrifice a little performance in some games, but you’ll gain some in others, and you’ll have the ability to run DirectX 10 and 11 apps in their full glory, which will never be possible in Windows XP. We’re also confident that both ATI and Nvidia will continuously work to improve gaming performance in the future, as both companies have for every other new OS Microsoft has released.
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April 21, 2011 at 11:32pm
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what will be interesting to see is how 7 compares with the other two OS using a newer proc with hyerthreading and on an SSD since apprantly 7 is optimized for that. other than that, as was mentioned earlier, it isn't all about the "raw numbers." as has been my experience, 7 has been much better in every way but even if it was just a few percentage points slower than my xp partition, i would have still wiped it off my system, which ive done now =)
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October 28, 2010 at 7:17am
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October 07, 2010 at 8:26am
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August 11, 2010 at 10:40am
I loathe Vista/W7. To be honest, it feels a bit like "same shit different name". I'm what you call a super user, and I'm used to reliability, stability, and last but not least — speed. The RDP service/client of W7 is incredibly slow, even with lowest settings. To make a long story short, I really hope M$ won't drop support for their XP fanboys just yet. Not like, err, not like ever!
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August 02, 2010 at 10:56am
hello,
recently i have installed vista ultimate x86 , and i am not at all satisfied with the performance . the explorer.exe gets hanged time to time . so i was thinkink wheather i should install Windows 7 or i should start using windows XP again my config: core2duo, 2 gb ram ,(250+80) gb HDD , 512 mb palit geforce 8400gs graphics
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July 15, 2010 at 8:12am
Wowo BIg thanks on your feature for Windows 7. I thought Ultimate was the best. But as you said its best to have Pro instead. Well activating a license was a lot more difficult nowadays. Just like their Dynamics RMS. I called their support just to activate our license. And now with the new release Windows 7 I think i will have also a poblem activating it. Goodluck to me. Hope I can be happy with Windows 7 that from my previous XP.
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July 15, 2010 at 8:20am
Is Windows 7 a universal OS that can run application such as Adobe CS4, and some other software?
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July 15, 2010 at 10:57am
Think about what you just asked...
You know what, screw it.
No, Windows 7 is not a universal OS, and it can't run even the most popular apps available today. The only thing you can really run on Windows 7 is Calculator and MS Paint. You have to get a special version of Office that is Windows 7 only and costs about 8x as much as Office 2010 for Mac.
-- Sent from Firefox 3.6.6 on my desktop running Windows 7 Professional 64bit while running any app I please.
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July 15, 2010 at 8:20am
Is Windows 7 a universal OS that can run application such as Adobe CS4, and some other software?
devils
July 11, 2010 at 5:17am
The same adhd crowd that swallows the political marketing, no accountability, and now maximized world pulp are the same geniuses that think win7 is an os.
I am having to do this on one of my xp pc's since the fresh installs of win7 64 require me to wait an inordinate amount of time for it to boot, and then fight through continuous ie failures. 17 860, 4gb, 5870, etc.
For the over anxious fangurls and glad hands, twitching fingers poised over the kybrds,.. if spelling and grammar is all you know and think it adds credence to your spiteful fire backs, this is the same half formed thoughts and social inexpediences that were the norm over a decade ago.
Most of the unbacked comments are still of the coke vs pepsi, ford vs dodge, shallow requoting of paid for reviews. They pretty much all have the same motivation of self-esteem inflating, self congratulatory, ego centric contributions of having weighed in on a topic that has been marketed through a huge advertising machine. The same notions that make facebook and twit'erers imagine that everyone is so anxious to exchange meaningless - "i'm walking dowtown right now", "here's a pic of my dog" info that no one really cares about but are obligated to respond so that they can get themselves off on imagining people care an iota when they offer up their meaningless tripe. A state the world communication exchange was in a long time ago. (but I do not deny the great advantages in other contexts)
I got vista 64 bt with the win7 upgrade license last fall. The negative of vista was everything they said it was. Upgrading to win7 64 bit demonstrated that it was significantly slower and much more convoluted than vista and as well, my 46" samsung monitor now had 1" black border all around it and the display was out of phase leaving a smaller and less appealing display. Adjusting under scan in catalyst leaves much to be desired.
I adjusted a single, upfront menu in performance settings in "premium" (frgn joke) home edition and was presented with continuous bsd's upon the reboot. There is no safe boot to go back and adjust your preferences or recover from a bad setting. Auto recovery is more of a joke than you can possibly imagine. Of course rolling back to a restore point was utterly useless and leads us to one of many reinstalls.
As I mentioned inet explorer is now one of the slowest and most useless tools in win7 and even if there are no error msgs about it failing when any of my other 4 xp pc's are working fine, the wait times and having to close and reopen the app it makes it not an option.
Application opening, I am a gaming enthusiast and world class in some genres, is ridiculouos most of the time, having to reclick over and over again (new keyboard mouse - always as I wear them out and replace long before anyone else would have problems with them) and am not impressed with wireless. All my friends, associates and peers like mindedly stay on xp and do not own any other ms products like the burnout xbox, instead enjoying quality products like ps3, wii, etc.
I am amazed how people believe that when ms changes a bunch of crap in a new version of anything that it is due to "most requested features". I love now when expanding items - some are on the left side some on the right side all on the same page.
If win7 is the 'best ever' to you then you are not doing very much with your hardware. If it is 'easier' & 'simpler' then you do not know much about pc's and probably barely managing to do what most of the technical world was doing years ago.
As a business analyst it is truly terribly shocking to see how much effort and resources microlimp is putting into marketing and false information to get idiot execs to think, for example that "sharepoint" serves a 'business intelligence' niche. If you have any sort of clue about SEO and observed black hat practices over the last 4 years then you know ms is NOT your friend. E.g. you need a phd in semantics to get to real objective information, not clonesites that pretend they are a referential IT technical site or sommunities specifically set up to offer no true objective data. (OH oh and see the lovely chest fulls of medals, like the goons in the military, that "sr. < technical specialists>" sport on their avatar. Highschool drop out security guards wearing either the swat gear look or special forces admiral look. The extravagant 1960's russian military look. You even get 'boards' for attendence. - Maybe go to an art gallery and hang on the wall for a while.)
Like the mmorpg pleebs whose only strategy is to lurch ahead without any clear conception of what is going on, upgrades and new products versions are going to part you from your hard earned money for no real benefit.
DX 11 is a little better, but for all the problems and marginalized performance, XP is better, faster, simpler and much more capable than yet another attempt of ms to pander to the dmbaz crowd that prlly shoudn't own a pc.
To yet, put this to another test, i've picked up a vertex 2 extended ssd and another 2tb hdd and will triple boot - xp, win7 32 and win7 64.
Save your money, show ms you want real quality not glitzy gurlie crap, and enjoy xp.
If you're a pc and win7 is your idea, you're probably the same no-mind that watches tv on your pc or twits your friends where your fingers are.
I live in a federal gov't town that gives all its employees blackberries. The same reacharound crowd with faces buried in their little screens oblivious to the world, but stupifyingly satisfied to be boot licking the latest tardastic IT initiative emailed from the executive. The same executives that imagine any hundreds of millions of $ is worth being able to video chat with anyone else in the organizations because they just got a spyspace account, at taxpayer expense.
I imagine that in 5 - 10 yrs from now after the throngs grow bored with vain, self pampering technocentricities, there may be a return to good solid R&D. If you have any sort of measurments that indicate win7 performs better, then you are an ms tool.
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November 24, 2010 at 6:47pm
I couldn`t agree more. I`m a gamer and about half my games don`t install or run properly. Just installed Silent Hunter 3 and got a long, incomprihensible error message, which remained the same regardless of the setting in the useless "compatibility" tab.
After about 2 hours online I found two complicated solutions that didn`t work and a way to run an XP mode of W7. "That sounds great!", thought I, but of course you need the Ultimate or Professional version and I have Home. No problem, I can just upgrade, it tells me. But wouldn`t you know it, Microsoft want money for me to do this. After selling mea cruddy, monopolized hack product, they now want more money!
Naturally paying them anything is out of the question. If anything I should sue to have them refund the money they`ve already scammed me out of. I`m reinstalling XP forthwith and never installing 7 again. I only regret any money Microsoft may have earned because of my stupidity. They don`t deserve them.
Caboose
November 25, 2010 at 9:35am
Do you want some more cheese to go with that Whine? Silent Hunter 3 was released back in the beginning of 2005. It's now the end of 2010. You honestly expected the game to work properly?
I can't get my favourite combat flight sim (Jane's Fighters Anthology) to run properly in Win7! I've found a work around, but it just doesn't run right, so should I be pissed?
And of course you'd have to pay to upgrade your OS. Do you think companies make money by giving stuff away? Give your head a shake!
"If anything I should sue to have them refund the money they`ve already scammed me out of."
And how exactly were you "Scammed" out of money? That's a new one. You willingly purchased the software, whether it was preloaded on the laptop or you bought a boxed/OEM copy. If you didn't purchase the software but pirated it instead, well then you're a goddamn moron!
The only stupidity in this situation, is your own. I have no sympathy for you, or anyone else bitching and complaining that their software which is +5 years old doesn't work flawlessly on Windows 7!
dracx619
July 12, 2010 at 3:09am
i wonder why i never deal with any of these problems, replaced xp on my desktop, upgraded from vista on my laptop. after getting good drivers ive been solid (my only problems came with betas). im not being paid, im not being biased, blinded, or manipulated. im just a real user and tech enthusiast who has had nothing but good stories about 7. showed and trained my non tech wife, aunt, and friends win 7 and the reactions are all the same, "wow! cool! thats great!" and all love it and prefer it over xp now. must be just you and a few others....enjoy
Caboose
July 11, 2010 at 10:18pm
another person who is going to hold on to Windows XP until they die.
as for your post, tldr...
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April 28, 2010 at 8:53am
sorry, i got to say this
"im sorry windows xp, im happy for you, ima let you finish, but windows 7 is the greates os of all time, of all time"
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April 28, 2010 at 11:23am
I LOL'd
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April 16, 2010 at 6:24am
The same peeps posting here adamantly stating how much better Windows XP is over Windows 7, are the same folks that said the same thing about Windows 98 when XP was released.
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March 31, 2010 at 5:21am
I will move up to Win 7 64 bit when I buy a new laptop later this year, but gee whiz, I HATE ribbons! I bought MS Office 2007 and never use it because I can never find what I need! Hopefully the applets in Win 7 that have Ribbons will be easier to navigate.
I am already bummed out about the inability to use "classic" view in Win 7. Gawd, I must be getting old....
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February 26, 2010 at 8:30pm
Windows 7 is awesome except the Windows Audio Feature that was crippled since Vista. In Windows XP, I could use the Windows Audio to record my sound card's 'What U Hear' in exact audio quality using any audio software. I think i'll just give up on Windows Classic WAVE audio recording and start using the ASIO feature on my sound card, though I still prefer using old software since they are lighter and the Windows 2000 and XP Mixer is equally good if you have a high end sound card. You can play many audio files at once and record a mixtape using any light audio recording software. Now with the restrictions and the cripple of Windows Vista's sound support, they make it difficult to do that, the audio quality isn't exact anymore. :(
Oh, another thing I forgot to mention is compatibility. Microsoft should have included all the compatibility with all Windows Vista drivers and software. My Sound Blaster X Fi Elite Pro seems to not install properlly like it would with Vista. I wish my original vista driver CD would still work on Windows 7.
The only reason why I still use XP is the audio recording dilemma. Plus, I don't have a licence for it at this point of time.
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February 18, 2010 at 8:12pm
I read a few posts below about windows 7 taking away some of the GPU power for the system and I have to agree fully. What a load of shit. I tried out benchmarking in passmark with both os (xp-32, win7-64) and while on xp it will show full gpu usage, windows 7 showed capped at 80% and it wouldn't go higher. What is this crap microsoft? Aquamark did the same thing except hitting 84% for a second. That would explain why i'm getting less FPS in games with win7 over xp. I play resource hungry games that need all I can give them and windows 7 just isn't cutting it. I like how it looks but that's just a cover for its poor overall performance.
flammewerfer
March 08, 2010 at 7:09pm
After 5 minutes of Google searching I found a potential answer to your problem, along with the guy below. I won't know for sure unless you post back with your system specs, but I have a suspicion that you're running an nVidia card. nVidia hasn't released good drivers for Windows 7 yet.
Anyone running ATI graphics doesn't seem to have your issue.As
proof, I'd like to point out this article written by a professional
overclocker and benchmarker. I recommend reading the introduction,
then looking at the Aquamark scores (especially since this is the benchmarking tool you said you used). After displaying a graph where Win XP falls behind all of the newer OS's, his analysis is:"One important thing to note about Aquamark3 in particular is that there
is a heavy dependence on graphics drivers. These results only look this
way on ATi GPU’s, like those used in this test. On nVidia GPU’s, XP is
actually slightly ahead of the others. You’ll have to take my word on
that since nVidia results aren’t included in this roundup, but
curiously enough, running ATi in Windows 7 scores about equal to a
comparable nVidia setup in XP."You can find this article here: http://www.overclockers.com/windows-showdown-8-operating-systems-6-benchmarks/
Caboose
February 19, 2010 at 7:23am
You know, I'm still trying to figure out where you guys are getting this information that Windows 7 "caps the GPU". I've yet to find anything that states otherwise. And no one that spouts these clames is able to provide anything more than "Well I did it, so it must be true!"
So... where did you get this information? I'd like to read it for myself! I've noticed an IMPROVED performance from my PC when I switched to Win7 from WinXP, as many others have, and many benchmarks and reviews have also stated...
I KNOW! Microsoft is paying EVERYONE off to say good thing about Windows 7. That must be it... right?
Or maybe not...
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
slowride81
February 17, 2010 at 8:30pm
In my opinion windows xp 32bit is still king for gaming. I have dual boot xp sp3 x32 and windows 7 ultimate x64. In all my testing and trying games it appears my entire system performs around 25-30% LESS with windows 7 than xp. I don't know where this article gets its results from but they are a joke.
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P
AMD Phenom X4 925 Quad
Gskill 4gb 1600mhz DDR3
Antec 650w PS
EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked
