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Benchmark Results: Sandra 2012 And Fritz

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Sandra 2012

SiSoftware's Sandra is a diagnostic that lets us isolate very specific aspects of platform performance, including memory bandwidth, cryptographic throughput, several CPU-oriented metrics. Let’s see if there’s a difference between the two operating systems.

Although the Dhrystone module exhibits more variance than we'd expect (favoring Windows 7), the rest of the tests are fairly even.

Fritz

Fritz is a chess benchmark based on a real chess engine.

We see another draw between the two operating systems.

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mayankleoboy1 11/06/2012 3:35 AM
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You are using winrar 3.98 , which isnt big on multithreading. Winrar4.2 is a huge change from the older versions, with quite aggressive multithreading. Please drop the old version and use the newer. :)

mayankleoboy1 11/06/2012 3:38 AM
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most of these benchmarks are basically CPU bound. Can you do a mix test that does CPU + IO activity , like an Antivirus software ? or uncompressing 10GB+ rar/7z archives ?
That would test if Microsoft has made changes in the scheduler to balance throughput VS response time.

Darkerson 11/06/2012 3:53 AM
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Well, at least things are on an overall even scale, unlike when vista came out and was decidely less snappy than XP. But with all the other modifications MS has made, such as the nice boost to start up and shut down speeds, its still "feels" faster than 7, even if it really isnt, overall. At any rate, I still dont feel this is "Vista 2" as a lot of people were making it out to be before launch.

SteelCity1981 11/06/2012 4:26 AM
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Overall Windows 8 doesn't improve over Windows 7 as both OSes are evenly matched and trade off performance over each other in diff benchmarks and you would think a newer OS like Windows 8 that is suppose to use less resources then Windows 7 should have outperformed Windows 7 across the board and yet it doesn't.

agnickolov 11/06/2012 5:40 AM
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Alas, you skipped the Visual Studio benchmark. It showed slight aberration in Win7's favor on the AMD platform, so I was curious if that remained true for Intel as well.

SteelCity1981 11/06/2012 6:19 AM
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manwell999 11/06/2012 7:40 AM
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Why bother doing performance comparisons if whenever the performance drops for the new version out comes the excuse "it will be fixed in the driver". What evidence is their to say this?

A double-check means check-check, not check-excuse. Conclusions are drawn from the data at hand, not from speculation on what might be in the future.

Otherwise cite the manufacturers acknowledgment that performance issues are going to be fixed and hold them to it.

darkstar845 11/06/2012 9:24 AM
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Is there a way to customize windows 8 to make it look like the desktop picture in the first page?

warmon6 11/06/2012 9:51 AM
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darkstar845 :
Is there a way to customize windows 8 to make it look like the desktop picture in the first page?



no. those are 2 different images (windows 7 and 8) that's been fused together.

now, if you want that start button on windows 8, you could look at this article and try one of the 2 solutions they give.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/201 [...] -menu.html

roflmaonow 11/06/2012 10:22 AM
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warmon6 :
no. those are 2 different images (windows 7 and 8) that's been fused together.now, if you want that start button on windows 8, you could look at this article and try one of the 2 solutions they give.http://www.pcworld.com/article/201 [...] -menu.html



I just tried out pokki, it's really good for free program. Thanks for the heads up. I do like Start8 more though.

zyky 11/06/2012 11:37 AM
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When did everyone forget how to make proper graphs. Can we get everything in the same sort order instead of sticking the winner on top each time? It's much harder to compare at a glance how it is now.

RazorBurn 11/06/2012 11:41 AM
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The Two features of windows 8 that persuaded me to upgrade are

1. Storage Spaces
2. Data Deduplication

jeffwouters.nl/index.php/2012/01/disk-deduplication-in-windows-8-explained-from-a-to-z/
http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab [...] -2012.aspx

Hope tom's will have a in depth look at Data Deduplication..

warmon6 11/06/2012 11:59 AM
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roflmaonow :
I just tried out pokki, it's really good for free program. Thanks for the heads up. I do like Start8 more though.



Np, while i haven't cared if there a start button or not (been trying it out since the dev preview which did have it), I know other people have cared.

I'm just showing options to those that want it back.

SteelCity1981 11/06/2012 12:23 PM
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nekromobo 11/06/2012 3:16 PM
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What about double checking battery life on laptops for both win7/8 and AMD/Intel camps?

Kinda would think that win8 be way better in reserving battery?

maxinexus 11/06/2012 3:16 PM
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Where is the comparison of PC boot, resume, or shut down times?

neiroatopelcc 11/06/2012 3:20 PM
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Please compare windows server 2012 as well. You'll need to install the Wireless feature and enable the windows audio service, then it's like windows 8, but with desktop as default ui :)
maybe consider desktop experience feature too if those things are needed

clonazepam 11/06/2012 5:35 PM
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I hadn't seen this Fritz benchmark before. I just tried version 4.2. I'm using an i7-2600k at 4.6ghz, with 16GB RAM at 1866. Let's just say my results are less than half of what you got on the i7-3770k so I think I'm missing something. Maybe I have too much overhead in processes, etc, or something...

Edit: I closed about 40 processes, funny Chrome had 12 processes running taking over 2GB memory in total. Still, I managed to only get a score of 6006 lol...

PreferLinux 11/06/2012 8:20 PM
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zyky :
When did everyone forget how to make proper graphs. Can we get everything in the same sort order instead of sticking the winner on top each time? It's much harder to compare at a glance how it is now.


Worse, some graphs are in a particular (or is it random?) order, and some graphs have the winner on top. It is totally disgusting.

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