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Windows 7 vs Windows Vista Performance Comparison. With the release of a new operating system, one of the first questions that pops into your head–besides how much it is going to cost you–is if it will increase the performance of your machine. Newer operating systems are usually more optimized, designed to start quicker, load programs faster, and increase performance with better drivers. With that question in mind, we took two identical Lenovo Think. Pad T4. 00s loaded with Windows Vista or Windows 7 and compared every facet relating to performance. To make this article relevant to consumers, we picked two identical systems with factory images (operating system installatons).
One included the latest configuration of Windows Vista Business and the other Windows 7 Professional. They were both manufactured on 9/1.
These systems match even down to the most basic internal hardware. To compare the system performance of both machines, we created a level playing field by removing the same bloatware from each machine including AV software and gave each laptop the same custom power profile in the Lenovo power manager.
The Lenovo Think. Pad T4. 00s configurations included the following hardware: Windows Vista Business SP2 3. Windows 7 Professional 3. Graphics: Intel X4.
M Integrated Screen: 1. WXGA+ LED Backlit (Matte finish) Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo SP9. GHz, 1. 06. 6MHz FSB, 6. MB Cache) Memory: 4. GB DDR3 RAM (2. GB x 2) 1.
GB Toshiba SSD Optical Drive: DVD+/- RW Wireless: 8. Bluetooth 2. 0 Battery: 6- cell 1.
Wh. General Performance. In the first section of the performance review, we compare daily activities of each system.
This includes tasks such as boot times, shutdown time, sleep time, and wake from sleep time. These are activities the user has to sit through multiple times a day, meaning that a few seconds here or there really adds up over time. Both systems were set to automatically log in, without a password prompt to delay the process. The timer was started either when the power button was pressed, or the appropriate button inside the operating system was clicked.
For the power- on sequence the timer was stopped when the system was at the desktop, idle and waiting. Measuring the boot times side by side was pretty interesting, since our Windows 7 system turned on almost 3. Vista machine. We expected both machines were going to be quick with their relatively clean installs and SSDs, but coming in under 3. Windows 7 system.
Startup Time. Shutdown time was equally impressive, with the Windows 7 configuration completely powered down in half the time over Vista. Timers in this case were stopped when the activity LEDs were off. Shutdown Time. Sleep and wake times are important for users who want to quickly power down their machine–say at the end of a class or meeting–but might not want to lose what they were working on. In this test as well, the Windows 7 system had another clear advantage over the Vista configuration. Sleep. Wake. For standard system activities, Windows 7 easily takes the lead.
Clocking in with consistently faster times over and over again, there is no question in our minds that at least some areas have been optimized compared to Vista. Battery Life. Our next test is battery life, which plays a major role in day- to- day use and also gives us an indication of how stressful background activities are on a notebook.
In this test we installed Fire. Fox on both systems with the Reload. Every plug- in set to refresh the same webpage on each system every minute. This was to duplicate slow but steady usage which might be duplicated inside a classroom or reducing the boredom in a lengthy meeting. For this test both systems were configured with the same power profile inside the Lenovo Power Manager. The primary settings included the processor set to adaptive mode, screen brightness to 1.
Inside Battery. Mon, both systems reported a battery capacity within . Wh of each other. Out of all the tests we ran, I think this was the most interesting. I say that because of the sheer fact each system shutdown after 5 hours and 5.
Technically one system shut down with 5: 5. Both systems stayed at about 6. Software Performance.
Application performance was a toss up with some software taking longer to load in the Vista environment and another taking longer inside Windows 7. We used App. Timer to measure the length of times GIMP and i. Tunes took to start up on each computer.
After running the test multiple times on each system to find the average, we found that i. Tunes takes a bit less time to load in Vista and GIMP takes less time in Windows 7. Tunes load time. GIMP load time. Video Playback Performance. Video playback and its stress to the processor was another area we checked, and in this scenario we used the latest CCCP codec pack with Media Player Classic Home. Cinema, with Divx 7 installed x.
The test file was the 1. P trailer for the movie Up! CPU utilization seemed to be better in Windows 7 (if only slightly), as shown by a more stable readout in the Task Manager. In Windows 7 if you go with Windows Media Player 1.
Intel X4. 50. 0 chipset, the performance difference is huge. Instead of 1. 5- 2. CPU utilization, it is between 0- 4% on average.
Vista. Windows 7. Windows 7 using WMP1. Synthetic Benchmark Performance. The last half of our performance comparison guide covers synthetic benchmarks, including w. Prime, PCMark. 05, PCMark Vantage, and 3. DMark. 06. Both systems had all available Windows Updates installed and we used a non- Aero basic theme during each test.
The results we found were very surprising. After the pretty significant advantages Windows 7 showed in day- to- day performance in prior tests. The only area where Windows 7 performed equal to or better than Vista was in 3.
D performance … which had marginal gains at best. PCMark. 05 measures overall system performance (higher scores mean better performance): PCMArk Vantage also measures overall system performance (higher scores mean better performance): 3. DMark. 06 measures overall graphics performance for gaming (higher scores mean better performance): Wprime processor comparison results (lower scores mean better performance): HDTune Windows Vista: HDTune Windows 7: While most of the synthetic benchmarks might have the disadvantage of not being optimized or designed to run inside Windows 7, w. Prime shouldn’t have those problems. Even it ran slower inside Windows 7. To simulate gaming performance on each system, we used Real- time HDR IBL (rthdribl) in its default startup mode running at 6. FRAPS recording the average framerate.
In this test Windows 7 showed a small lead in framerate over Vista. The increase would probably be more significant with a better graphics card. FPS (higher scores mean better performance): Conclusion.
After testing all aspects relating to performance between two identical system equipped with Windows Vista and Windows 7, we found each version of Windows performed differently under certain circumstances. In day- to- day operation Windows 7 easily beats Vista with a quicker boot times, shutdown times, sleep times, and wake times. In some of those tests it was almost 5.
Video performance is improved in Windows 7 if the user switches to Windows Media Player, where it now natively supports hardware- decoding with the Intel X4. Battery life was unchanged with each system getting nearly the exact result in our side- by- side test. The main area that seems to suggest a disadvantage for Windows 7 is overall system performance when tested with synthetic benchmarks.
It is too early to tell if this is non- optimized benchmark software or driver related hiccups inside Windows 7. What we do know so far is 3. D performance seems to be improved by a small margin; a plus for gamers. As more and more Windows 7 systems come in for review we will see a better picture of how it performs in our tests, but we can easily say for the average user, Windows 7 will feel much faster in day- to- day activities.