LCA Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 I decided to do a direct comparison between Xp x64 and Vista x64 SP1 RC1 ver.744 on one of my machines. The setups were as follows: CPU: Dual Core AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Motherboard: Gigabyte GA - K8NF-9 Ram: 2gb Adata Dual Channel DDR Video Card: Sapphire ATi x1900GT 256mb Hard Drives: 2 x 36gb Western Digital 'Raptor' 10,000rpm (Raid 0) Soundcard: Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS Operating Systems: Windows Vista Business Edition x64 Build 6001, Service Pack 1, v744 (called SP1 RC1 Refresh) Chipset Drivers: Nvidia (the standard drivers installed from the Vista DVD) Video Card Drivers: ATi Catalyst 8.1 x64 Raid Drivers: The default drivers included with Vista DVD Note: Aero interface was turned on and the Sidebar was turned off. Windows XP x64 (Build 3790 Service Pack 2) Chipset Drivers: Nvidia 6.86 nForce Video Card Drivers: ATi Catalyst 8.1 x64 Raid Drivers: Nvidia version 5.10.2600.0552 The results are: The winner in each category is in red. 3DMark06 was run at 1280 x 1024 (no AA or AF). The results speak for themselves with most tests the difference is 1.4% or less. The hard drive read performance in Vista is vastly superior whilst XP has a good win in WinRar. In 3Dmark06 it is also very close with most of the difference in the CPU scores. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PCMark05 Tests: The winner in each category is in red. Note: The hard drive tests refused to work when using XP x64. Some big variations in results here with XP predictably winning the 2D Graphics Memory test and the Audio Compression (XP is always going to win this after Microsoft completely rewrote the audio stack in Vista). With transparent windows rendering Vista pulverises XP, for Video encoding Vista has a good edge too. Vista struggles in the file encryption test, the text edit test, and with web page rendering but wins the virus scan test. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimboh1 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Wow- interesting results; looks like Vista's catching up. Thanks for taking the time to do all that testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Great post! Thank you (Y) But why did you use the default raid drivers for Vista and not the latest from WU or those from nVidia? or have they not been updated yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCA Posted January 20, 2008 Author Share Posted January 20, 2008 But why did you use the default raid drivers for Vista and not the latest from WU or those from nVidia? or have they not been updated yet? I haven't played around with the Nvidia Raid drivers in Vista for ages. The last time I tried the ones on the Nvidia site they were really slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malisk Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Interesting how algorithm heavy things are so much favoring XP. E.g. audio compression and archive compression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightDevil Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Thank's for this benchmarks, vista performance is still noticeable slower than xp... we hope it improves :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M118LR Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Thank's for this benchmarks, vista performance is still noticeable slower than xp... we hope it improves :| XPx64 is Server 2003, not XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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