March 16th, 2009

Windows 7 build 7057 - Performance that blasts past XP, Vista and previous builds

Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 6:14 am

Categories: Microsoft, On the test bench, Windows 7

Tags: 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7, Performance, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating System, built-In, Microsoft Windows Vista, ISO, Release Candidate, Microsoft Windows

Conclusions

After I carried out the performance test on Windows 7 build 7048 I commented that I thought some of the results were all over the place. However, on looking at this latest build, I’ve no doubt that not only will Windows 7 will be fast. In fact it will blow away all previous Windows OSes, including the sainted Windows XP.

Note: Why haven’t I just published raw benchmark results? Simple - it’s not allowed under the terms of the EULA.

So far it seems that on the hardware platforms that I’ve used that the 32-bit flavor of Windows 7 is faster than the Beta 1 build (significantly faster in some of the tests). Will this be true of the RC and RTM builds? Initially, I expect it to be the case unless you are throwing a lot of RAM and CPU at the OS. I suspect that the cause for this is immature drivers and that once we see an RC build vendors will put more effort into optimizing the drivers for both 32-bit and 64-bit.

I’m still confident that we’re on target to see the Windows 7 RC appear sometime during April.

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