Windows 8 Versus Windows 7: Game Performance, Benchmarked

By Don Woligroski
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We already know that the look and feel of Windows 8 is very different from Windows 7. But once you fire up your favorite title, does Microsoft's latest affect your experience? We test 10 games and talk to one of the company's SDEs to answer that question.

Benchmark Results: Crysis 2

Each card's average frame rate changes very little in Crysis 2 during the shift from Windows 7 to Windows 8.

Given what we saw in the bar graph, it comes as very little surprise that tracking performance over time shows solutions from AMD and Nvidia maintaining consistent numbers in both operating systems.

Don Woligroski