Windows 8 RTM Benchmarked

[garyopa]

Improves boot up and shutdown times, no 'tangible' performance differences while gaming or other stuff.



TechSpot grabbed the RTM version of Windows 8, and tested various aspects of the OS. Find out the results inside!

Website TechSpot has grabbed the RTM version of Windows 8, measuring and testing the performance of various aspects of the upcoming OS including: boot up and shutdown times, file copying, encoding, browsing, gaming and some synthetic benchmarks.

Here are some of the key results:

- System used.

The following benchmarks were conducted using our high-end test system which features the Intel Core i7-3960X processor, 16GB of DDR3-1866 memory and a GeForce GTX 670 graphics card, all on the new Asrock X79 Extreme11 motherboard. The primary drive used was the Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB, while the Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 256GB SSD was used for the AS SSD Benchmark and Windows Explorer tests.

- Boot Up, PCMark, Browser, Encoding.



















- Excel, File Copy, Gaming.

















And finally, here's what they've concluded, based on the above results:

Microsoft seemed to hit full stride with Windows 7, developing a fast and efficient operating system. Thankfully it seems Windows 8 continues to build on that pattern as we found it to be on par with and ocassionally faster than 7.

The improvements that have been made to startup and shutdown times are self-evident, and no doubt a major focus on the new OS' development as this will particularly benefit laptop and tablet users. Another notable improvement was seen in multimedia performance. This was first observed when running PCMark 7 and later confirmed when we ran x264 HD Benchmark 5.0 and our HandBrake encoding test.

Most of the other tests saw little to no difference between the two operating systems. This was especially true for the gaming benchmarks, but most surprising on the IE tests which we figured would have shown a big advantage for IE10, but not so.

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Looking beyond benchmarks, Windows 8 appears more polished than Windows 7, even if you plan to live on the desktop and aren't too fond of the Start screen, general usage is smoother and appears to be faster on Windows 8, which I found most noticeable on our somewhat underpowered Athlon II X4 system. If anything, it's a great start, now the Metro/Modern style will have to prove itself as a cross-platform OS that marries desktop, laptop and tablet PCs.

So, there you go. What do you think?

You can read the full article at the link below, where you'll also find a few more benchmarks made, but this time on a "Budget" system (showing similar results, though).

NEWS SOURCE: Windows8 vs Windows7 (via) TechSpot

Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news item!

[DEDDOA]

This does kind of mimic what i have found, it does feel a lot more slick than windows 7, tho most of the drivers are still beta (tho that said it's still NT6 like Vista and Windows 7 so I doubt the official drivers will be much if any better as they will likley be for all 3 OS's). It feels like a fresh install of XP on the older machines I have tried it on (ok not that old but the Dell Studio Hybrid is no speed machine, but it runs it nicely with Power DVD 12 instead of WMC, still have yet to try it on my C50 netbook tho, but hopefully it will be the same, NT5 speed with NT6 polish).

I have noticed World of Warcraft frame rates are a lot more stable during busy periods in cities, on my emulator PC and old laptop the frame rates stay pretty constant around the 50-60fps markat 1920x1200 with everything at max and 8x AA, wheras in windows 7 they can be a bit spikey (i'm trying not to use my gaming rig at the mo as using it is like having the central heating on even withe aircon on). That said I have forced the 12.7 catalyst windows 7/vista 64bit drivers on as well (the install fine if you do it manually, but fail if you try to install them normaly tho the performance is not guarnteed tot be the same as the official windows 8 ones which will hopefully be better), so kind of proving, not that it needed to be proved as it baltantly is, this is just NT6.3 and not a real windows 8. It's much like a "new" OS X OS, it's probaly nothing that couldn't have just been a service pack, tho it does make fresh installs that bit less hassle for a while.

Like I have said before tho, if you don't like the artist previously called metro, just download classicshell, it will give you the start menu even in the full version of W8 and it will skip the metro menu for you not to mention give you plenty of start menu options and skins (you can still use the new menu tho if you want fromt he right side menu, so best of both worlds).

[Xenogears V]

Is normal that a new system must be better in comparison with other old system. But need to see stability and retrocompatibility.

[kcvfr400]

So looking at the small file transfer its the same as 7 so still utter crap compared too xp. Have tried 8 and its a real mess and leaves me wanting to get serious about linux if I either want to ditch 7. I have it on a small partition and it dislikes looking on other drives for pics etc.

[JonathanD]

So looking at the small file transfer its the same as 7 so still utter crap compared too xp. Have tried 8 and its a real mess and leaves me wanting to get serious about linux if I either want to ditch 7. I have it on a small partition and it dislikes looking on other drives for pics etc.

Careful with Linux though.... Transfer some files to an external NTFS hard drive and go make a sandwich and watch some TV shows or a movie for anything very large. I don't know what the issue is, but I have experienced it on multiple machines and multiple external drives with almost every distro known to man (at least 90% of the English ones.)

My educated guess is that NTFS support is sort of a hack in Linux and there is some issue there. If the drive is Fat or any of the Linux supported file systems things go as you would expect them to.