Welcome to PC Wiz Kids Tech Talk. Well, many of you have asked me how is Windows 7 compared to Windows Vista. Well let’s find out, let’s run some benchmarks and see. I have a new system here dual boot exactly everything identical. Let’s see how long it takes to do things and how much system resources Windows 7 takes. Now, starting with the boot up, since I have a dual boot I have a menu screen obviously to choose between Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
If I select Windows Vista and hit enter, it takes about 29 seconds for Vista to load to get to the log in screen. If I do the same thing for Windows 7, 17 seconds to load so it’s obviously faster. Now, logging in, if I type in my password log in and I wait for the hour glass to finish it’s seven seconds only on Windows 7 compared to the 15 seconds on Vista so that’s pretty good. Now, let’s learn some more benchmarks.
PC mark vantage is saying you get a total score of 6358 PC marks on Windows Vista. Okay, so keep that in mind and I am going to show you here the same amount results from Windows 7. Now, do you think Windows 7 did better? Well of course it did better, Windows 7 gave 8034 PC marks right there. You can tell that productivity suite, the communication suite, that’s what it really did better. Gaming suite they’re about the same, hard drive, test suite they’re about the same not too much of the difference there. But overall higher score, okay so obviously there is another win for Windows 7.
Let’s look at the read test suite from Everest. I run a different benchmark tool and basically it’s saying about the same. I run it both same version of these tools on both operating systems and look at the results very, very close between Windows 7 and Windows Vista. You can’t notice much of the difference there. But what about the Cache-Memory Benchmarks the way it reads the level one, level two cache of your CPU and stuffs like that. Well again, if I look at all of these results from Everest and go through every value here that they give me and then compare it to Windows 7 I’ve basically got very, very close results and here are the Window 7 results. It’s basically the same. Obviously Windows 7 was a little bit higher but the way that is obviously using and handling the cache is about the same. 3D mark vantage tool, working with the GPU okay I’ve got dual crosswire cards going on here. This is the Vista score 16228, you can see there the frames per second 49, 54 frames per second.
How did Windows 7 do? Well, a little bit higher score here but what this translates to the higher scores. Very, very small only two to three frames per second max for using Windows 7 as opposed to Windows Vista. So, same, same to my driver, same video driver just so you know. Now, using here the memory usage, how much memory is Vista using right now on idle? I’m not doing anything on the machine. All I’m doing is recording the screen. So, how much memory is Windows Vista using compared to Windows 7? Right and how much processing power is it using up for basically doing not much. Well, let me tell you that on Windows Vista it’s using about 29% of my total memory so I’m using four gigs of memory. That’s how much I’ve got to installed four gigs.
Well it’s using 29% of that, okay in Windows Vista for just recording the screen is basically idle, it’s not doing much. Right, so in Windows 7 though it’s 19-20% you can see the memory value is here at the bottom. That’s the usage through out my four gigs, it’s using about 18, 19, 20 it’s hiring around 20% so that’s 10% less memory that Windows 7 is using for doing the exact same thing that I did on Vista. So that’s pretty darn good, okay so they’ve obviously improve it right there and if we break down the memory here a little bit further and you go to the tab here at the top in Windows 7 to show you. You can see here how much is actually being used so 800 megs of my four gigs so 3.2 gigs available and it’s using about less than a gig already for just setting idle and me recording the screens.
So that’s gives you a good idea on how much memory you need obviously for Windows 7, more than one gig obviously so you need at least two gigs if you want to run this safely. But there you go, that’s gives you a good idea on the comparison between both Vista and 7 and I hope you enjoy this video and thank you for watching.
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