August 5th, 2009
7 RTM vs. Vista SP1 vs. XP SP3 - Shootout, Part 1
Over the past few months I’ve talked a lot about the performance side of things with regard to Windows 7. However, I’ve not been able to give you any actual numbers because the EULA for the beta and release candidate versions of Windows 7 prohibited me from doing so. However, now that Windows 7 has hit the RTM I can carry out benchmark tests and provide you with real numbers.
The tests
Rather than dump a whole series of benchmark results on you, I’m going to release them over a few posts. Here I’m going to look at four specific metrics:
- Boot up speed
- Shutdown speed
- Compressing and then extracting a folder contains numerous files and folders (3500 files / 30 folders) totaling 5.15GB
Tests are carried out on 32-bit versions of Windows.
Test systems
I’ve used two desktop systems as the test machines:
- An AMD Phenom 9700 2.4GHz system fitted with an ATI Radeon 3850 and 4GB of RAM
- An Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200 2.2GHz fitted with an NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS and 1GB of RAM
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