Administrator DKT27 Posted October 26, 2012 Administrator Share Posted October 26, 2012 Windows 8 is just as fast (and sometimes faster) than its predecessor. For a couple of decades, it seemed like every time a new version of Windows was released, its hardware requirements would keep pace with hardware advancement, necessitating sometimes-costly hardware upgrades if you wanted to stay up on the latest software. Nowhere was this more evident than in Windows Vista, which launched in 2007 on hardware that wasn't always prepared to deal with its increased memory and graphics requirements. This trend has been turned on its head in recent years, at least in part by the popularity of small computing devices with comparatively little processing power. Netbooks filled this role during the Windows 7 era, and tablets are filling it now. In order to support them, Microsoft's stated goal with both Windows 7 and Windows 8 has been to keep the operating system's performance and resource usage level between versions. New features can be introduced, but only if the software can be tweaked so these new features don't drive up the hardware requirements. We've already done some testing of these claims in our full Windows 8 review, where we saw that the new operating system's performance was broadly similar to Windows 7's. In this piece, we'll be diving just a bit deeper, testing things across multiple systems to get an idea of how Windows 8 will perform on more diverse hardware. Test systems For most of these tests, our primary testbed was a custom-built gaming PC with a 3.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 960 CPU, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 GPU, 12GB of DDR3 RAM, and a Crucial M4 solid-state drive—not quite state-of-the art, but a high-end system from a couple of years back. We've also widened our sample size with several other test systems, as seen in the table below. Nota bene: The bottom two systems were used solely to run gaming benchmarks. Article continued at source link below... View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 It is too early to measure Win8 speed, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted October 26, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted October 26, 2012 It is too early to measure Win8 speed, isn't it? Nope. It's final already. Either way, these tests seem theoretical, not practical. I believe the "feels" speed might have improved more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digimon Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 service pack 1 if there is one for windows 8 will be when speed relly improves windows 8 hasnt had any real world testing like 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oZ. Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 It is too early to measure Win8 speed, isn't it? Nope. It's final already. Either way, these tests seem theoretical, not practical. I believe the "feels" speed might have improved more. Windows 8 itself might be ready but drivers, updates, for games and software are mostly not ready. Most drivers for hardware support on Win 8 out there released around late July. honestly that's a long time ago since it was summer as i had so much fun :cheers: & sanjoa I really miss those Signature bars LOL! i got my friend to put like 10 - 20 of them into 1 png file back in 2008 - 2009. what are they called again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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