bit-tech News: Windows 7 Beta Performance

news · January 16, 2009

Hi all,

We have just published a look at performance with the Windows 7 Beta

released last week - if you could post a link on your site that would be

very much appreciated.

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*/Generally speaking, the performance is almost identical to Vista with

an exception made for gaming, but we're putting that down to driver

optimisations at the moment.

For the most part the benchmarks flicker back and forth between Vista

and Windows 7 with no outright winner. There are a few concerns we have

at this time though - file compression tests are notably and

consistently slower and network copy performance is very slightly slower

as well. However, on the plus side, the simple file copy testing is

faster than in Vista and boot times are notably improved.

Windows 7 is supposed to be much more lightweight, too, and we've seen

it running on Atom-based machines without too much trouble. We've

obviously tested here with an incredibly high-end system and so the

performance differences may not be as noticeable at this end of the

spectrum. Where the optimisations might make more of a telling

difference is at the lower end of the scale, where hardware performance

is very much the bottleneck of your experience with an operating system

like Windows Vista or Windows 7.

That's something we'll be looking at in the future without a doubt, but

for now we can only go on what we've seen so far.

With that in mind, we haven't seen comprehensive evidence of any

optimisation or slimming of the OS that we would have loved to have

seen, but at least it's not / /even fatter like every previous

generation of Windows has forced onto us. The additional features and OS

tweaks are generally very good and very positive, despite the fact there

are still elements of Vista-fail that need surgically removing (the

sharing options would be a good starting point)./

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*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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