Windows 8 Versus Windows 7: Game Performance, Benchmarked

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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: DiRT Showdown

In what is becoming a fairly pervasive pattern, DiRT Showdown demonstrates that it isn't sensitive to the shift from Windows 7 to 8. This is a good thing, we think. A worst-case scenario would have been a performance loss, or worse, compatibility issues that prevented modern, popular titles from running well.

Don Woligroski
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Don Woligroski was a former senior hardware editor for Tom's Hardware. He has covered a wide range of PC hardware topics, including CPUs, GPUs, system building, and emerging technologies.