Windows 7 series: NVIDIA and AMD Graphics and Gaming Performance

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The Windows 7 beta has been a huge success with pundits and users all over

the tech world singing its praises. But what about gaming? Does moving to

Windows 7 beta mean a drop in PC gaming performance like it did with Vista

or do Microsoft and the driver teams at AMD and NVIDIA have it all ironed

out? We take you through gaming performance results on 7 graphics cards

that totaled to more than 750 test runs.

 

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=682

 

Quote: "As I mentioned on the one of the first pages of this article (that

was a LOONG time ago...) the only fair comparison for looking at pure Vista

versus Windows 7 gaming results is with AMD's graphics cards and their

unified Catalyst 9.3 driver that supports both operating systems. To that

end, the AMD situation showed us that users will likely see very modest

performance gains moving over from a Windows Vista gaming system to a

Windows 7-based PC. Considering how early we are into the life of Windows 7

(it is still in beta after all), this is a very welcome shift from how

things worked before Windows Vista's release."

 

Thanks for a post!

 

Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective

rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com