In the 2020 PC world, there are only 2 OS competing for the top spot.Windows 10andWindows 7.
But which gives better benchmarks in terms of performance like ram, memory and gaming?
Unless you are in the Insider Preview, where you may get unstable builds.
Though Windows 8.1 is still supported, it doesnt occupy much of PC market.
Also the IE10 and IE11 are having better JavaScript experience in Windows 10.
10 and 8.1 used about 17% of the memory, which comes to around 700 MB.
For example v10041 had problems with RAM usage compared to v10130.
[Source : http://www.tenforums.com/general-discussion/5007-windows-10-memory-usage-asus-t100.html]
But there are contrary reports on RAM usage on the same forum.
But in another post, a user posted acomparison ram usage for Windows 10 vs Windows 8.1.
He didnt find much difference.
(Feb, 2015).
But the noticeable difference is that Windows 10 has more free memory, instead of standby memory.
Windows 10 copy memory bandwidth usage was little higher than the others.
With driver improvements we can see better benefits.
Also calculating Pi to 1 million decimal places, Windows 10 was the winner.
On the CPU Queen Scores, Windows 10 scored a higher score of 21203.
The other two OS, scored 21168 and 21079 respectively.
The overall system performance test on PCMark 8 Home tests showed that Windows 7 and 8 scored 2743 points.
But Windows 10 made a better score of 2768.
But Windows 10 made improvement than 8.x with 6510.
The drivers are all identical in all the 3 scenarios.
In the Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 tests, there was not much difference in the average FPS score.
The FPS scores were also almost identical at around 503.
With better driver improvements, we can see more benefits.
Specs:
The following games and softwaer were tested.
The final conclusion was that all the 3 games fared well the same in all the 3 OSes.
But there was minor advantages with two of the games in Windows 8.1.
But with Directx 12 round the corner, Windows 10 may show some drastic improvements.
Ocaholic also did a vast comparisonof some other games.
The BattleField 4 performance tests showed neck and neck comparison within all the three OS.
One did well with one resolution and also the average FPS rates were also not much different.
Windows 10 scored an average FPS rate of 88.72 with 1080p mode.
It gave around 2 to 6% improvement scores in the average FPS rates.
The Tomb Raider also showed that Windows 8.1 is better at FPS rates.
Though the difference is only marginal, it can be seen that games go well with 8.1 OS.
The average FPS rates for Windows 10 were 53.10, 33.00, 14.20 in different resolution modes.
The website also conducted Power Consumption tests.
With Idle mode as the parameter, Windows 10 was using less power compared to 8.1 and 7.
It used only 68 watts power, a 5% less compared to Windows 7.
