Windows 7 build 7048 vs. Windows 7 beta 1 vs. Vista vs. XP performance shootout March 13, 2009

Hey all,

Well, it seems as though Adrian Kingsley-hughes of ZDNet.com has done it again. He has benchmarked the above named Windows OS’s and Build against each other in a thorough way.

Lets see who the winner is shall we:

Tests run on a very capable machine — LINK

Tests run on a moderately capable machine — LINK

It seems as though the latest build of Windows 7 is the best on the more capable machine running as a 64-bit operating system.

However, on the moderately capable machine it seems as though Windows Vista SP1 is best suited there.

Bye!

Vista RTM & SP1 put to the Office Test February 27, 2008

Adrian Kingsley-hughes of ZDNet blogged a benchmarking test of bothe Vista RTM and SP1 when trying to run various tasks in Office 2007 Professional using scripts [from OfficeBench].

He used a pretty good computer with high specs:
 - Phenom 9700, Radeon 3850 graphics card, 2GB of RAM
which shows that the machine is not incapable of running Vista or Office.

The results are as follows:

	Time to execute test scripts (sec) -No load	Time to execute test scripts (sec) -Load
Vista RTM	265.83	271.06
Vista SP1	273.76	273.97

It seems as though SP1 has brought quite a significant slow down when using Office with no-load as there is an 8 second delay, but Adrian assures us that this will not affect the everyday user of Office. We also see that SP1 remians fairly consistent as it takes roughly 273 secs both times which isnt a bad thing.

So, for those of you who were scared SP1 may slow down your Office running times, dont worry and for those of you who had hoped for a better performance, tough luck.

N.B. In the second set of results for both RTM and SP1, the ‘load’ was just a small video running in the background by the script.