Win10 compares Win7 which is better Who is faster?

Microsoft's Windows system is an old friend who has been with us for a long time. Most people use it from generation to generation. The old users have a consensus that Microsoft's system generation will be very good, and the next generation will be very Oops, such as Windows XP, Windows 7 is very popular, and Windows 2000, Windows Vista is a sad story. As for Windows 8, it is a good thing. If it is on the touch device, Windows 8 is much better than Windows 7, but without the touch, the Windows 8 interface is not easy to use. Let's take a look at Win10 vs. Win7 who is faster. I hope it will help everyone!

Microsoft's next-generation operating system, Windows 10, is scheduled to be released on July 29. The new operating system draws on a lot of lessons from Windows 8, making a big change in the interface, starting the menu regression, and The Metro dynamic tile interface is also reserved. The Windows 10 interface has two modes: desktop mode and tablet mode, which can provide a better user experience for both types of devices.

We have written an article comparing the performance of Windows 10/8.1/7 three-generation system games. At that time, Bulid 10041 version was used. Now Windows 10RTM version (Bulid 10240) has been released. It can be seen as the official retail version of Windows 10 in the future. What is its performance? What we have to do today is a complete performance comparison.

Test Platform and Description

Users who use Windows 8.1 now believe that most will choose to upgrade to Windows 10, and most of the entangled upgrades are Windows 7 users, today The test is for Windows 7 users, comparing the performance differences between the two generations of systems.

The test platform uses Intel Xeon E3-1230v3 processor, ASUS Z97-Deluxe motherboard, Zhiqi SNIPER DDR3-16004GB*2 memory, graphics card is NVIDIA public version GTX 960, system disk uses Plextor M6Pro 256GB, Windows 10 system uses the 353.54WHQL driver pushed by the system update center, Windows 7 system uses the latest 353.30 WHQL driver on the official website.

Game Performance Test: For the time being

In game aspect, the biggest upgrade of Windows 10 is to support DirextX12. Now DX11 graphics card supports DX12. For detailed analysis of DX12, please check this article. "Win10" "killer 锏": Detailed Microsoft 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, but there is no game that supports DX12. 3DMark also has only one API test to support DX12, but this test is not for you to test performance. How much improvement can DX12 bring? I don't know yet. Today's test is only to test the existing DX11 project.

First look at the 3DMark benchmark, FireStrike standard mode, Windows 10 score is 6392, while the Windows7 system score is 6308, if you look at the score, Windows 10 is high, but if you look In fact, the ratio is more than 1%.

Game Test:

We tested "Tomb Raider", "Metro: The Last Light" and "BioShock: Unlimited" and Unigine Valley Benchmark. The test results are shown in the figure above. Windows 10 has some advantages, but the difference is actually a few frames to a frame, and 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. Hidden 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, facing IE11 is a victory, on the Octane 2.0 JavaScriptBenchmark project Microsoft Edge leads more than 50%! The Kraken JavaScriptBenchmark 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


























The 4K random read and write performance under the system 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's test Windows 10 system and Windows 7 score a few points, reaching 1000 points, the main reason is the bottom of the "Video ToGo" and " ;Music To Go” These three multimedia file compression tests, Windows 10 system only takes a few seconds to complete, and Windows7 system takes 36 to 40 seconds, the gap is quite large.

The current reason has not been ascertained, and the reasons for OpenCL have been considered, but the results of these tests have not changed after the Open7 of Windows7 system. The reason for PCMark itself is relatively large. Look at the software later. There are no updates for Windows 10 systems.

WinRAR Test

Windows 10

Windows 7

This test is mainly for CPU compression performance, you can see WinRAR compression under Windows 10 system The ability is even better.

Full-text summary

After the above test, everyone should have a general understanding of the performance of Windows 10, Windows10 has a certain improvement in disk performance and compression performance. But there is no qualitative leap, and Windows 10 brings more changes in the user experience than performance improvements.

At present, the game performance of Windows 10 is basically the same as that of Windows 7. Although the system supports DX12, due to the lack of supported games, the advantages are not fully demonstrated. 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 we will talk about Microsoft Edge browser. Also write an article to see how it differs from the current mainstream browsers. Please stay tuned.