Benchmarking in windowed?

[noidis]

I've always run my benchmarks in full-screen. Most don't offer me a choice, but I noticed that the Heaven benchmark does. Will it give me skewed results? Should I keep benching whilst in fullscreen or will windowed provide me the same results?

 

[HugoStiglitz]

you have the software. try it. what are your score's in each?

does either give a better result than the other?

 

[noidis]

Alright so I went ahead and tested, it seems fullscreen gives a slight boost.

My scores with default clocks were as follows.

W/o full-screen - 1422
W/ full-screen - 1434

Not sure if 12 points is that much in terms of performance, but it still exists.