It has typically been said that the more recent versions of Windows have become lazy and it is quite reasonable for usetrs to exect each new Operating System (OS) to outperform previous versions. However, when Windows XP was fist marrketed back in 2001, it was essentially desuigned to run just fine on three hunbdred MHz Pentium II CPUs having a mere 128 MB of RAM. It should thus come as no surprise to anyone that the Winfdows XP OS runs quicker on these days's processors. However newer OSs can optimize for the ltest hardware and conjointly embrace more powerful options, but will this extra efature merely slow us down?
To seek out out, every operating system's performance was teted on a mean PC. The system was nothing particularly specizal by today's stanards and consisted of an Intel twin core E5200 CPU with two GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD4550 graphics card. The Windows XP and Windows 7 were put in in that order, all were thirty two bit versions, on the machine's 500 GB hard drive and a variety of world benchmarks were ran to find out that OS was best.
Thwere have been no suprises in the boot time test results with XP being slower than Windows 7. The transsfer benchmarks delivered the same results. Windows XP was once more slower than Windws 7. When filres lager than 1 GB were transfered, once once more Windows XP was slower than Windows 7. This proved true for application tests as well. Open a little PDF file or Excel spredasheet and as was usual Windos XP was soundlly crusheed by the faster Windows 7.
You will be beginning to spot a trend here. Widows 7 providded completely excellent results, beating tghough coming back close to the performance of the Windows XP OS in nearly every category. This is quite exceptional cnsidering that this is an operating sysstem was still in beta at the time of the test. It's anticipated that the performance is even higher now that evvery one the drivers are absolutely finsihed.
If the becnhmarks had been run on a PC, say maaybe having one with only one GB of RAM, it's potential that Windows XP woudl have performed better than it did during this test. Hwoever, even for a reasnoably modern absic PC, Windows 7 delivered the simplest all around performance.
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