Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard Benchmark
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversCNET’s Dong Ngo decided he wanted to pit Windows 7 and Snow Leopard against each other to see which operating system has more oomph. The results may surprise you.
With both Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard arriving this fall, never before has there been a better time to try a new operating system.
Dual-boot systems are becoming more popular, and more users than ever are using both OSes in their homes. Boot camp has made Apple’s MacBook Pro a good, if ironic, choice for a Windows 7 machine.
But Ngo decided he wanted to pit Windows 7 and Snow Leopard against each other, mano e mano, tit for tat, to see which operating system has more horsepower. So he took a 2008 vintage MacBook Pro (15-in. unibody; 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT), a stopwatch and his eyeballs and got to work.
To get started, Ngo installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a stock 320GB hard drive (Hitachi model HTS543232L9SA0) and Windows 7 64-bit, a 320GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue (model WD3200BEVT). Both hard drives are nearly identical, and support a SATA 3Gbps interface, offer 8MB of cache memory and spin at 5,400rpm. This way, he could swap the drives and avoid bothering with partitions and Boot Camp.
The apps he installed on both systems included:
* iTunes 9
* Cinebench R10
* QuickTime (7 on Windows; X on Snow Leopard)
* Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare
The first two are 64-bit applications.
So how’d it work out? In time-based tests, Snow Leopard “consistently outdid Windows 7.”
His results on the basics (graph for this test at top of post):
* Snow Leopard boot: 36.4 seconds
* Windows 7 boot: 42.7 seconds
* Snow Leopard shutdown: 6.6 seconds
* Windows 7 shutdown: 12.6 seconds
* Snow Leopard “wakeup”: 1 second
* Windows 7 “wakeup”: 1 second
Then Ngo began benchmarking multimedia performance. The results this time:
* Snow Leopard iTunes conversion (17 songs, MP3 to AAC): 149.9 seconds
* Windows 7 iTunes conversion: 161.9 seconds
But the tables turned with Cinebench R10, which showed that Windows 7 was “noticeably better than Snow Leopard in 3D image rendering.”
Scores for 3D image rendering (higher is better):
* Windows 7: 5,777
* Snow Leopard OS X: 5,437
Windows 7 also trounced Snow Leopard in gaming, offering higher frame rates.
Scores for Call of Duty 4:
* Windows 7: 26.3 fps
* Snow Leopard: 21.2fps
“Consistently, Snow Leopard was always 5fps to 7fps slower than Windows 7,” Ngo writes.
Finally, Ngo measured battery life, and received results that contradicted his expectations.
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Comments(19)
snow leopard is faster than windows 7 on a macbook; real valid conclusion!
well what a surprise! itunes, quicktime, and every other piece of apple software runs
like shit on windows. thank you for pointing that out.
i'd rather have a slow windows with all it's freedom, then a superfast snowkitty and
being tied by hands and feet.
so apple software was faster on an apple os. a bit biased, you didn't run ms office and
crunch a few macros with it..
also it was just a test of 'software applications' to
test the os you have to test the os, at the kernal level...
this site has progressively gotten worse over the last 6 months.
good day to
sir.
well duh.
p.s. itunes 9 isn't 64-bit on windows.
face it most games and app for windows
d'oh!
perhaps the version of windows 7 he tested had a virus or spyware slowing it down.
pointless real world benchmarks.
some of these fags have nothing better to do.
so just like with my friends at engagdet who had the same article the conclusion is the
same testing snow kitty on a machine that is optimized for its os with one that isn't is
really stupid and the point that the "benchmarks" where not that big in difference it
still says that win 7 is a better commercial product. i have a comparable system and my
win 7 does everything in a 3rd of the time. i also have a pc with snow trick on it after i
searched for years to find the drivers. it booted slow and kept crashing.
just an fyi macbooks and all other macs for that matter use non proprietary intel
hardware. just like a pc hence it is fairly easy to install snow leopard on a pc. it is
not biased by any means. also since it uses intel hardware no emulation is required, it
runs the os as is meaning it runs just as fast as it would if you had a pc with equal
specifications. get your facts straight before you open your mouth. and also engadget got
the same result.
"perhaps the version of windows 7 he tested had a virus or spyware slowing it down" or
maybe it was microsoft slowing it down....
comparing apple's software on windows and mac, on which apple's software run faster?
seriously stupid benchmark.
next benchmark: windows 7 diesel vs. windows 7 gasoline. which has more horsepower,
torque and better consumption rates? stay tuned.
why this hate war? grow up, theres always new things 2 learn and if u dont stay tuned
u`ll loose it and ur doomed 2 stfu!
agree that this is a totally pointless benchmark
cause the really only important thing it comes down 2 is the matter of taste 4 the os and
what kind of user u r!
i like freedom and control, so i choose win, the only 1 who
says otherwise just cant control the win environment.
some choose mac, simply because
they r charmed by the simplicity and limitations that comes with the os`s!
the
only people who read this benchmarks r nerds just like me anyway so if u wanna c witch os
is faster, then optimize both systems as we should and test programs that we actually use.
what's w/all these ads i can't turn off the volume to? there are two running at once! i
don't understand.
way to deter your users.
so, i read erich's comment and thought "sounds like malware"...turned on my
sound...je8us creeping sh!t screaming ads!
so...antimalwarebytes scan and...clean?!
what is this crap?
after getting a core 2 cpu, i wasted no time in getting snow leopard on my pc as dual
boot with win7 ultimate x86. that was a month ago. my impressions..mac is for people who
primarily don't care about the inner workings of the os. if fact, they prefer to avoid
it. i've always enjoyed exploring, changing, & in general being the master of the
machine. i didn't have any noteworthy problems with vista. win7 is similar, but far
better. the mac had pretty wallpapers and ran very well but where were the myriad options
and settings? i feel like it's designed with the idea of making too much "invisible".
it rarely breaks but as noted by a thousand before me, when you only have a tiny market
share, the writers of malicious software aren't going to be spending much time targeting
you. if i were a novice user i might be tempted to buy a mac, after all, it's easy.....if
you don't count the time you'll spend looking for drivers for...oh...most anything. but
coming up through the iterations and mutations of windows means i could never call a mac
my primary computer. too simple a beast.
and what's with that "terminal"
abomination? i never imagined you could take the primitive format of the command prompt
and actually come up with something worse, simultaneously more ugly and less
"intuitive".
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By Mark on 17.10.2009 - 01:10