xp sp2 vs vista sp1...

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Well, I have been reading all these benchmarks, and most of them seem flawed. I know at times, Vista can be slower, but personally I think, that it isn't all the time. There are things I like about Vista and things I don't. I did a personal benchmark with the same hardware, clean install, and used PC Mark 05 and 3D Mark 01. I ran all the test 3 times. All from a cold start, so there was no caching from a restart or what ever there might be. Just thought I would share my results and hopefully I don't get judged, that this is a flawed test. Everything thing is ran with the latest drivers and all set to default, no optimizing was done. So here is the test...

 

Test Setup (Tried to keep the hardware similar to what a typical person would use)

Pentium 4 (not dual core) 2.4Ghz

Intel p865 chipset

2GB DDR 400

80 Gig Maxtor HDD

Nvidia 7800 GS XP/Vista Driver 169.25

XP SP2 w/ current drivers and updates, and the same w/ Vista SP1 RC refresh

 

Startup time:

XP - 37 sec

Vista - 47 sec

 

3D Mark 2001:

XP - 9805

Vista - 11122

 

PC Mark 2005:

XP-3198

Vista - 2665

 

HDD XP startup: XP - 7.2MB/s** Vista - 7.18

Physics: XP - 98fps** Vista - 75.53

Transparent Windows: XP - 1040 windows/sec** Vista 474

3D: XP - 189fps** Vista - 180

Web Page Loading: XP - 1.82/s** Vista - .94

File Decryption: XP - 48.27Mb/s** Vista - 48.1

Graphics Memory: XP - 1352.59fps** Vista - 1165.21

HDD - General usage: XP - 5Mb/s** Vista - 4.97

Multi app test:

1 Audio: XP - 785.2kb/s** Vista - 739.8****

1 Video: XP - 106.14kb/s** Vista - 97.75

2 Text: XP - 46.5** Vista - 37

2 Image: XP - 9Mb/s** Vista - 8

3 File Compression: XP - 1.62/?** Vista - 1.43

3 File Encryption: XP - 13.3Mb/s** Vista - 12.14

3 Virus Scan: XP - 26.47Mb/s** Vista - 20.48

3 Latency: XP - 6.47** Vista -*6.35

 

These tests took a looong time to do. So hopefully someone finds them useful.

 

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