Comparing the performance of Windows 10 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 7 and verifying it

ByBrett Morrison

"Windows 10" which became possible to upgrade from July 29 has been reborn into a more user-friendly OS by improving some of the unpopular parts of Windows 8. TechSpot is conducting verification on how its performance has changed compared with the conventional OS.

Windows 10 vs. Windows 8.1 vs. Windows 7 Performance - TechSpot
http://www.techspot.com/review/1042-windows-10-vs-windows-8-vs-windows-7/


The following test environment is used.
Processor:Intel Core i 5 - 4670 K (3.4 GHz - 3.8 GHz)
Motherboard:ASRock Z 97 Extreme 6
Memory: 8 GB DDR 3 - 2400 RAM
Graphics:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 graphics card
SSD:Crucial MX 2001 TB
Power supply:SilverStone Technology ST75F-GE (750 W)

◆ Startup time
When using a PC, it is important whether it takes time to start up first. "Slow startup" "Heavy operation" is just that stress will be felt. If this is a new OS, this point should have been considered, but actuallyBootRacerIt was measured at the fastest startup on Windows 8.1, followed by Windows 7, and that Windows 10 was the slowest.


However, the time is 8 seconds for 4 seconds, 7 seconds for 5 seconds, and 10 seconds for 6 seconds, each only one second. Since this number will change as Windows Update is done and some kind of fix patch is applied, third party application is installed and the composition of hardware and software changes, "10 is It can not be said that it is not enough to make a noise to say "It's late though it is the latest."

Since there are more people to "sleep and recover from sleep" than using "turn the power off & start", it is of course not only the startup time but also the time it takes for the return time from sleep to be short is. The test machine was a desktop PCHybrid sleepWhen we measured the recovery time from OS, we got the newest order of OS, 10 seconds on Windows 10, 12 seconds on Windows 8.1, 17 seconds on Windows 7, the fastest returning.


Hibernation (dormant state)The order was the same, 10 was 21 seconds, 8.1 was 23 seconds, and 7 was 27 seconds.

◆ Comprehensive benchmark
CINEBENCH R 15,PCMark 7,3D Particle Movement Benchmark, CINEBENCH R 15 and PCMark 7 have both scores of Windows 10> Windows 8.1> Windows 7.

3D Particle Movement Benchmark did not make such a big difference, but we got the result that Windows 8.1> Windows 7> Windows 10 and the latest Windows 10 score lost to Windows 7 as well.


◆ Application
Next, we tested how comfortable you can use the application, the speed of opening files in Microsoft Excel 2013, the benchmark of Mozilla Kraken with Firefox · Chrome · Microsoft's browser (Internet Explorer and Edge), the compression rate of WinRAR 5.0, Adobe Photoshop CC · Adobe Illustrator CC file opening speed and 7-zip compression speed were measured.

In most tests, there was no big difference in the three OSs, but with the Internet Explorer and Edge benchmark, the IE of Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10 was slightly above 1700 ms, respectively, whereas Windows The 10 Edge is overwhelming with 984 milliseconds.


However, considering Mozilla Kraken's benchmark score, Firefox is 933 for Windows 7, 963 for Windows 8.1, 1030 for Windows 10, 852 for Chrome, 852 for Windows 8, 930 for Windows 8.1, and 919 for Windows 10, both of which are Edge It surpassed and the low score of the Microsoft made browser stand out.

◆ Storage
In order to measure how much read / write speed is used with the same storage in three OSs, the storage of the test environmentSamsung SSD 850 Pro 512 GBchange to.

When we measured it,CrystalDiskMark 5.0.2In the sequential (Q32T1) of the sequential (Q32T1) it was a score that was not much different, but with the random 4KiB (Q32T1), only the writing speed of Windows 7 obviously became slow.


In addition, storageSamsung SM 951 NVMe SSDWe changed the benchmark of Windows 10 and Windows 8.1, but the score is about the same. However, at random 4 KiB writing speed, Windows 8.1 got 247 MB ​​/ s, Windows 10 got 228 MB / s slightly different.


◆ Encoding
"Open source video conversion software ·HandBrakeConvert 720p mkv file to mp4 file ","Hybrid x 265Convert YouTube 4K video to x265 ","X264 HD Benchmark 5.0.1"Benchmark with" and three types of tests on encoding.

As a result, there was no big difference in the three OSs.

◆ Game
What was used for performance measurementBioShock Infinite,Metro Redux,Hitman Ab Solution,tomb Raider,Crisis 3The quality is set to Max and High etc in each.

However, here again, there was no big difference in the three OSs. This is the score of Crisis 3, Windows 10 (72.1)> Windows 7 (70.6)> Windows 8.1 (68.7) when resolution is 1680 × 1050, Windows 10 (68.0) when resolution is 1920 × 1080> Windows 8.1 (67.9)> Windows 7 (66.3) but the difference is slight.


The conclusion
Techspot's conclusion is that if hardware running Windows 7, upgrading to Windows 10 will not cause any problems in terms of performance. From the performance comparison so far, it seems to be thought that "There is no big difference in performance in terms of Windows 7 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 10", but from now on, it is not Windows 10 such as a game using DirectX 12 Since things that do not move will come out, it seems that other people who have circumstances such as having software that does not necessarily work under Windows 10 will be moving the environment.