February 28th, 2008
XP SP2 vs. Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1: Gaming benchmark
The results
These tests took longer to carry out than I’d planned - in fact, the results that follow are the fruits of over a week of work. Still, to get a hands-on snapshot of the current state of gaming on both XP SP2, Vista RTM and Vista SP1, it was worth the time and effort.
Here are the results.
The table below shows the average frame rates for each game on each platform. We also show the percentage difference compared to XP SP2 (so, for example, a value of -10% indicates a drop in frame rate of 10% compared to XP SP2, which 10% would indicate a 10% increase in frame rate compared to XP SP2).
Here are graphs showing average frame rates for the ten games across all three platforms:
Conclusions –>
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