Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 27.12.2007
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversDespite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
In this context, performing benchmark tests on development milestones of Vista's first refresh are inherent methods of getting a taste of what SP1 will bring to the table. The Redmond company revealed in the past that it considers irrelevant tests involving a pre-RTM build of Vista SP1. But with the release to manufacturing date of the service pack still to be announced, sometime in the first quarter of 2008, the temptation is too big to get a sneak preview of the refresh.
In an initiative similar to that of the Devil Mountain Sofware company that tested the performance of beta builds of XP SP3 and Vista SP1, Gizmodo has also performed a benchmarking of Vista SP1, but this time the full Release Candidate. Earlier in December, Microsoft opened up the beta testing process of Vista SP1, with the delivery of the first public download, namely Release Candidate 1. Now, there is still no word from Microsoft whether RC1 is the final stage before RTM or if another RC will follow, but the company has given strong indication that Vista SP1 RC1 is close to the service pack's final form.
The new performance tests are essentially a comparison between Vista SP1 RC1, Vista RTM and Windows XP SP3. The tests were performed on a machine with the following configuration: a dual quad-core Penryn HP xw8600 PC, NVidia Quadro FX 4600 graphics (eight processor cores each at 3.16GHz), a 15,000rpm SAS hard drive and 4GB of physical system memory. Vista SP1 RC1 scored the highest, according to the results returned by running the industry-standard PCMark05 benchmark, accounting for 15.28% speed increase, compared to the RTM version of Vista. However, when it came down to network transfers, Vista SP1 RC1 hit a speed bump and copied a 1.37GB folder with 2606 items in almost 16 minutes, whereas Vista RRm did it in 13 minutes and XP SP2 in under 4 minutes.
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Comments(17)
files past, no flies past!!
is the big problem with vista, thats why i went back to xp, waiting 30 seconds to access
each network drive is not a option.
how is it that they're only getting 51 mb/s write with that 15000 rpm drive? i'm using
sp1 rc right now and can consistently get around 60 mb/s continuous write with a seagate
7200.10 320gb drive.
cuz seagate rules :d
people have paid alot of money to have microsoft's latest flagship vista. to use and
implement a lameduck system that cannot even outperform the previous os in performance and
benchmark tests is disapointing. the mediocre performance proves that all microsoft cares
about is corporate profits. vista is so laden with spyware and drm that it cannot
function properly. people want to know why microsoft has decided to serve the corporate
interests above the public's. because they decided to spread their legs for hollywood is
the short answer. no, i am sorry keep your copyrights on the disc, not on my pc screwing
things up please! the endless anti piracy campaign has produced vista. if it doesn't
get any better i will probably go back to xp. microsoft dosen't really care about the
public. we're not even number 3 on their list. the people that made them their fortunes
are now treated as criminals. grandmothers are being litigated and sued in court. file
sharing is not a crime people!
this test is borked. they had to find a machine with 8 cores to get vista to run faster
than xp. ok, its faster on an 8 core machine and right now almost nobody has one.
network file transfers remain broken.
another way of making more money indeed!
yes as ive always been saying vista runs fine. however xp will always be a little faster
because vista will always have more running processes and a nicer gui which requires more
cpu.
the test is complete rubbish, if you use the same system to test the performance of vista
and xp. it's quite obvious that xp will outperform vista since it requires less
resources. check the hardware requirements. if you made the tests fair then vista will
easily outperform xp. xp is complete rubbish.
^ i think your logic is rubbish.
this has turned into some kind of windows civil war :p
i remember when xp first came out. no one wanted anything to do with it. everyone
screamed for months because there were no drivers for their devices. people were screaming
about how slow xp was compared to 98 and some were even predicting that xp was just a fad,
pretty but not functional enough to keep. i remember cnet called it riddled with bugs.
i have been using vista since it crept out in the news groups. on my machine,
x2 4600 dual core, 2 gigs of ram, 7200 rpm sata drive and 7600gs vid card vista runs like
a dream. i boot in under 40 seconds, it plays every game i have thrown at it and i love
how it handles my home network. sadly the worst part about it is the price, if it were
cheaper then i would buy it to show m$ some support.
i dunno why everybody seems to have problems with vista, my machine has never has to
reboot unless software requests for a reboot! it has never crashed and ive been using it
since its release, all my games work, and all my software works! even old stuff! the only
downside to vista was the price, dont see myself going back to xp ever,
so just calm
down people, and give it a try before you critisize
i´ve been working with vista sice it became an alpha release and is much more reliabel
than xp is. obviously takes a lot more resources, right now it uses the amount of memory
that xp can't detect on my banks ;-) , but is more complex. those test show that sp1 wil
do a great job for vista, almost as big as 98 se did for w98. what annoys people is that
is most complicated to crack, takes a lot of work whereas xp is so easy.
about price
i don't think is tooexpensive, i bought an oem version (don´t need to update or such
things) and is less that 20 bucks away from same xp package, of course ultimate versión is
way much expensive due to all extras included. i'm waiting to see that sp mimachine will
fly with it.
i have seen many posts about vista and xp and really think you like what you like lol but
why not stick with what runs the best for you????????? and leave users to make there own
mind up i have used both xp and vista and like both of them. vista runs fine for me and
its really fast on a normal processor.
xp or vista?
vista all the way.
also i must agree with zero
anyway play nice now lol
mk776
yes! vista all the way. the startup is fast, well under 12 minutes and the shutdown is
well under 20 minutes. i just love it. to simply unzip a 5 mb file it takes just an
afternoon. i love it. the disk defragmentor can run for days or months without ever
stopping and windows search is always doing something in the background. not to mention
the glorious vista system restore that simply takes care of your entire hard drive by
taking most of it under its control. i am not sure why people have problem with vista.
it's a perfect os, brilliant in every way. definitively the best thing since windows me.
::quote::
:::almost as big as 98 se did for w98. what annoys people is that is most
complicated to crack,:::
no no no nada ..!
paradox :-)
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By ludo on 28.12.2007 - 02:12