In the Windows 10 vs Windows 8.1 battle, a key important parameter is battery life.
This is of utmost significance when you are using a laptop, notebook, tablet, mobile.
Another important factor to consider in 2019 is the end of support for Windows 7.
In this regards, lets see some comparative benchmarks of Windows 10 vs Windows 8.1 battery life.
This can reduce the extended time of your battery.
Windows 8.1 did not have that many built-in apps which were automatically updating in the background.
The Opera Developer (39.0.2248.0) lasts 22% longer than Edge (25.10586.0.0) on Windows 10 laptops.
In this test, the battery lasted around 4 hours .
Case Study #3:
The following specs were used in this benchmark test and reported onAVG.
Time : July 2015.
Windows 10 Build 10240.
Watching video
The notebook was allowed to run dry till the battery life ended.
In the first and third case, Windows 10 was a winner by a small margin.
In the video watching category, Windows 10 scored an impressive 36 minute edge over 8.1.
Another vital parameter to be compared in battery life statistics, is its performance while playing a game.
For this aspect, GTA 5 was chosen as the gaming benchmark.
In this step, Windows 10 poorly performed than 8.1.
There was 10 minute difference in battery life between the two.
This is 13% worse performance than 8.1.
To test the benchmarks, PCMark 8 Creative Conventional was used.
Test Time : Somewhere before the release of Windows 10 in July 2015.
The difference between graphics, cpu peformance, winrar, gaming, 7zip was not much of value.
It looks as the benchmarks were a tie.
From this study, it can be concluded that not much of difference exists in battery life benchmarks.
Test Time : Somewhere in Mar 2012.
Though it is somewhat old to come to a conclusion on battery benchmarks.
It should be seen on how battery life is for outdated hardware.
Based on the above study, a partial conclusion can be made.
Windows 10 has an upper hand over Windows 8.1, as it fails in comparison with Windows 7.
The test was made by continuous surfing on the web using Wi-Fi and Firefox.
Nokia Lumia 930 and Microsoft Lumia 640 mobiles were used.
The results were compared using Windows 8.1 mobile version and then after upgrading to Windows 10.
TheWP Bench battery testwas conducted to know the difference in battery life for both the OS versions.
On Lumia 640, battery lasted around 4 hours in both Windows 10 and 8.1.
On Lumia 930, it just lasted around 2 hours for both the versions.
It was observed that Apple iPhones had battery life and optimization than Windows tablet and mobile devices.
Microsoft Surface Pro 2 lasted 6 hours of battery life on a web browsing test using Wi-Fi.
Not much difference was observed between Microsoft Surface Pro, Pro 2, RT versions.
But later it was found that Microsoft Surface Pro 2 had a bad firmware.
Case Study #8:
Test time : Somewhere in Oct 2013.
In thisstudy, Sony VAIO Pro 13 battery life was tested on Windows 8 and 8.1.
There was not much of difference between the two.
In the light test, around 8 hours of battery life was observed.
This reduced to 3 hours during the heavy test.
There is not much difference to compare.
