Windows 8 vs. Windows 7 - Benchmark Performance Showdown

Windows 8 RTM seems smoother than Windows 7. It has been well documented that Windows 8 starts up and shuts down faster, so that wasn't much of a surprise. Maybe it's the inevitability of bloating an OS installation that is a couple of years old (in the case of Windows 7), but there's this sense of when you move from a hard drive to an SSD, things just appear slightly quicker.

This was surprising as Techspot did not expect to notice much of a difference for general usage when they tested both of the OS and compared them.

The following benchmarks were conducted using our high-end test system which features:

• Intel Core i7-3960X processor
  
• 16GB of DDR3-1866 memory
  
• GeForce GTX 670 graphics card
  
• Asrock X79 Extreme11 motherboard
  
• Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB as primary drive
  
• Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 256GB SSD for the AS SSD Benchmark and Windows Explorer tests

Gaming Performance:





Source: Techspot