Windows 7 versus Windows 10 1703 Benchmarks
This posting is part of a series of posts meant to explore the following topics:
- Testing designed to compare FX and Ryzen scaling with various workloads.
- Testing designed to compare GTX 660 and GTX 1050 Ti scaling with various CPUs.
- Testing designed to compare Windows 7 and Windows 10 under real-world idle conditions.
- Testing designed to compare gaming/encoding performance while encoding (under CPU load) in the background.
Level1Tech Threads:
- AMD FX 8350 versus AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Scaling on Windows 10 1703
- Windows 7 versus Windows 10 1703 Benchmarks
- Windows 10 1703 Idle versus Load Performance on FX and Ryzen
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Scaling with FX and Ryzen on Windows 10 1703
External Topic Index:
- AMD FX 8350 versus AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Scaling on Windows 7
- AMD FX 8350 versus AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Scaling on Windows 10 1703
- Windows 7 Idle versus Load Performance on FX and Ryzen
- Windows 10 1703 Idle versus Load Performance on FX and Ryzen
- Windows 7 versus Windows 10 1703 Benchmarks
- Windows 7 Load versus Windows 10 1703 Load Benchmarks
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Scaling with FX and Ryzen on Windows 10 1703
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Scaling with FX and Ryzen on Windows 10 1703
Disclaimers
The following benchmarks were performed with the following hardware configurations:
- Windows 7 Sp1 Updated, Windows 10 1703 Updated
- GeForce GTX 660 and 1050Ti both at stock frequences.
- Tests focus on real-world configurations and actual usage variations, not solely hardware component isolation. For that, check out gamersnexus.
- 1% lows, 0.1% lows and standard deviation calculations (for accurate error bars) not performed due to data analysis and time limitations.
- For full disclaimers, detailed configuration information, and results data please see the raw results Google doc. Tabs exist.
- Regarding MetroLL and Ryzen's SMT.
Synthetic CPU/Memory Benchmarks
CPU-Z Single and Multithreaded
Passmark CPU Score
- Passmark CPU is not a great benchmark.
Passmark Memory
MaxMEM2
- My FX system has lousy memory writes.
7-Zip Benchmark
CineBenchR15 CPU Multithreaded
x265 Encoding Time
- Do not use dual-cores for encoding.
x265 Encoding FPS
Synthetic GPU Benchmarks
Passmark GPU
CineBenchR15 OpenGL
- Error bars overly large. Conclusions uncertain.
3DMark Firestrike Score
- The 4850e does surprisingly well. Ryzen shows about 5-10% scaling over FX regardless of OS.
3DMark TimeSpy Score
- Windows 7 does not have DX12.
Unigine-Heaven FPS
- Those minimums scale really well, but with hardware, not operating systems.
Unigine-Heaven Score
- And Unigine, once again, does not understand the importance of those minimums.
Games
Tomb Raider
- Windows 10 shows very small improvements in minimums, reflected in the averages.
Metro Last Light
- Windows 10 shows amazing frame rate improvements, expecially to the minimums.
- A 4850e cannot keep up, despite any GPU or OS changes.
Shadow of Mordor
- With a very nice video card, like a 1050 Ti, there is no improvement in Win10 over Win7.
- WIth anything less, like a GTX 660, Win 10 has substantially better minimums. Essentially, this means the GTX 660 struggles with this game substantially and Win10 is a band-aid.
- This game is unplayable with a 4850e and 660 on Win7. But upgrade the video card -120- and downgrade the OS to Win10 -0- and amazing things happen.
Ashes of the Singularity Escalation
- That really is an 8x improvement in performance when switching to Win10. *Improvement only applies to dual-cores.
Conclusion
- Unsurprisingly, synthetic/CPU bound workloads are unaffected by OS.
- In games, Win 10 seems to deal with low-end hardware better than Win 7. Once the hardware improves, the OS is no longer a concern.
- Have some cheapo hardware? Want to game? Is unplugging the ethernet cord a viable option? If so, then Win10 will provide a better experience.