Win10 and win7 which is faster

Win10 learned a lot of Win8 lessons, made a lot of changes in the interface, start menu return, and Metro dynamic tile interface is also reserved, Win10 interface has desktop mode and tablet mode two, can give two Class devices provide a better user experience.

Test Platform and Description

Users who use Windows 8.1 now believe that most will choose to upgrade to Windows 10, and most of them are still struggling to upgrade. It is a Windows 7 user. Today, this test is for Windows 7 users. Compare the performance difference between the two generations of systems.

The test platform uses Intel Xeon E3-1230v3 processor, ASUS Z97-Deluxe motherboard, Zhiqi SNIPER DDR3-1600 4GB*2 memory, graphics card is NVIDIA public version GTX 960, system disk Using the Plextor M6Pro 256GB, the Windows 10 system uses the 353.54 WHQL driver pushed by the System Update Center, and the Windows 7 system uses the latest 353.30 WHQL driver on the official website.

Game Performance Test: Temporarily Flat

In game aspect, the biggest upgrade of Windows 10 is to support DirextX 12. Now DX11 graphics cards support DX12.

According to Microsoft, DX12 can improve game performance, which means that Windows 10's game performance should be better than current Windows 7 and 8.1.

However, there is no game that supports DX12. 3DMark only has one API test to support DX12, but this test is not for testing performance. How much improvement can DX12 bring? Know that today's tests are only testing existing DX11 projects.

First look at the 3DMark benchmark, FireStrike standard mode, Windows 10 score is 6392, and Windows 7 system score is 6308, if you look at the score, Windows 10 is high However, if you look at the ratio, it will actually exceed 1%.

Game Test:

We tested "Tomb Raider", "Metro: The Last Light" and "BioShock: Unlimited". Unigine Valley Benchmark, test results As shown above, Windows 10 has some advantages, but the gap is actually a few frames to a frame or so, almost all can be regarded as error elimination.

Browser Performance Comparison: Edge Completes IE11

Another major update to Windows 10 is that the default browser has become Microsoft Edge, and the long-established Internet Explorer is still there, but it has been Microsoft is hiding in a corner, the performance of the new browser is much better, this should also be of concern to everyone.

Microsoft Edge browser only supports Windows 10 system, so in this comparison, Windows 7 can only continue to use Internet Explorer 11 browser, testing HTML5 and JavaScript related projects.

You can see that the performance of the Microsoft Edge browser is so eye-catching In the face of IE11 is the victory, in the Octane 2.0 JavaScript Benchmark project, Microsoft Edge leads more than 50%! The Kraken JavaScript Benchmark project has an advantage of nearly 50%, and the new browser performance is quite worth looking forward to.

Disk performance comparison: Win10 wins

The SSD test's test disk is SanDisk Extreme Pro, and the motherboard has the SATA interface AHCI mode, all using Intel RST driver.

CDM test results under Windows 10

CDM test results under Windows 7

Two systems can be found The performance of continuous read and write performance is not large, but the 4K random read and write performance under Windows 10 is better than that under Windows 7, especially the random read and write at high queue depth.

PC basic performance test: Win10 is far ahead?

PCMark8

PCMark test Windows 10 system and Windows 7 score a few points, reaching 1000 points, the main reason is the bottom of the "Video To Go" and "Music To Go"; these three multimedia file compression test, Windows 10 system only takes a few seconds to complete, and Windows 7 system under The time spent is 36 to 40 seconds, and the gap is quite large.

The current reason has not been ascertained, and the reason for OpenCL has been considered, but the results of these tests have not changed after the Open 7 of Windows 7 system. The reason for PCMark itself is relatively large, look later. Does the software have any updates for the Windows 10 system?

WinRAR Test

Windows 10

Windows 7

This test is mainly for CPU compression Performance, you can see that the compression capability of WinRAR under Windows 10 system is even better.

Full-text summary

After the above test, everyone should have a general understanding of the performance of Win10, Win10 has certain performance in disk performance and compression performance. Improvement, but there is no qualitative leap, Win10 brings more changes in the user experience, rather than performance improvements.

At present, the game performance of Win10 is basically the same as that of Win7. Although the system supports DX12, due to the lack of support for the game, the advantage is completely out of the game. Waiting for the game to support the latest DX12 API still needs to wait.

The new Microsoft Edge browser outperforms today's IE11, and it has many features that IE doesn't have, such as extensions, cross-platform features, desktop and mobile platforms, and more.

But it’s hard to say how much the default browser has changed for everyone. I know that many people who read the article open IE in fact to download other browsers such as Chrome or FireFox, so about Microsoft Edge browser, we will write another article to see how it differs from the current mainstream browser, so stay tuned.