a decade ago you could buy a copy of Windows for a normal price or you could
buy a copy of Windows for like twice as much that had extra features like the
ability to join a domain uh support for more RAM or even the ability to set a
video as your desktop background oo but
did you get any additional performance for your money fair question and one
that was asked many times only to find
out that no No in fact you did not but what about Windows Server operating
systems surely a
$1,000 version of Windows would have
some kind of under the hood performance tweaks right in today's video we're
going to find
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the performance of two different pieces of software the last thing we want is
some kind of a hardware bottleneck so we're using a balls to thewall
configuration we've got a 5960x 8 core
processor from Intel we've got an x99 Deluxe 2 motherboard from ASUS
128 gigs of quad Channel ddr4 memory
from gskill a GTX Titan XP from NVIDIA
an X540 10 GB Nick from Intel and
finally for our boot drive we are using Corsair's latest mp500 NVMe PCI Express
SSD then I set up like a little dock so
that with two separate installs on two separate drives of Windows 10 and
Windows Server 2016 I could go through exactly
asterisk the same setup procedure down
to the order of reboots and the Order of application and Driver installs to
create the same basic state for both of
these operating systems then anytime I'm
measuring performance of something like rebooting for example or a game if I
have to screen capture I'm using the HDMI pass through of this BenQ monitor
going to an Avio epan capture card over to a separate computer so nothing that
I'm doing affects the performance of the system whatsoever no xsplit no nothing
like that so at this point I've actually finished running all of the Windows 10
numbers and you guys are joining me for the exciting part where we compare
Windows Server 2016 and find out if it can blow Windows
10 out of the water or not so we got our
screen cap going we got our first Benchmark walk ah here it goes the Ida
cash and memory Benchmark wow some of
these are like down to the point decimal
place of a Gigabyte per second
identical so our first result is in and
it looks like pretty much within margin of error uh the performance is the
same let's keep going time for everybody
body's favorite Benchmark sitting a
bench 1371 okay pass Mark CPU
Mark W that was exciting we are a little
lower on the server operating system let's go ahead and log
that and move on to dis
Mark wow okay so uh dis Mark results are in
and things are getting pretty boring we
come in a little bit lower on the server 2016 machine but not really in like a
big way or anything like that
okay sorry oh so that's uh that's the
addo results
wow pretty similar maybe gaming will be
a performance
Revelation okay first game Benchmark ashes of a singularity 4K High direct
X12 here we go show me the big
difference in 3 minutes and 15
seconds so curiously ashes of the
singularity did have a significant performance
difference but server 2016 was much
worse than Windows 10 see how rise of the Tomb Raider does
okay last Benchmark Doom at 4K
Ultra so far gaming is not looking good
for Server 2016 okay then so outside of games where
we saw a server take a bit of a beating actually they perform pretty much the
same within margin of error but this shouldn't be much of a surprise to
anyone who's familiar with the term konel so the kernel is the very core of
the operating system that's responsible for memory management and for allowing
the hardware itself to interact with other pieces of software and drivers and
vice versa so Microsoft actually reuses
fundamentally the same kernel between their server operating systems and their
consumer operating systems and this has been the case ever since Windows XP
where an MS DOS based kernel got replaced by the Windows NT kernel and
the advantages of doing this were several so it streamlined development
while dramatically improving the stability of the consumer product I mean
what was the point when you really get down to it of spending extra to maintain
two parallel kernels so that one of them could be good and one of them could be
like kind of unstable it also dramatically improved
interoperability have you ever noticed that uh driver or a software application
that runs on Windows Vista generally ran
on Windows 7 without too many hiccups that's because they're based on a very
similar version of the Windows kernel so
what are the differences some can be easily reversed like control alt delete
to sign into a server operating system or pretty animations on your you know
Windows when you drag them around on the consumer ones some of them are
artificially imposed like RAM limitations no remote desktop connection
no domain connectivity for home editions
and some of them actually come from third-party developers who might lock
down their software from running on non-server versions so our data
replication software as an example of this or even from Hardware companies who
don't want their Hardware running on nonv validated versions of Windows so
the onboard Wi-Fi on this board for example even with a cheat through device
manager manually pointing it at the driver file simply refused to work but
the biggest difference comes down to the massive amount of code that goes into
adding features that would have little to no value to the average home consumer
so things like uh Enterprise networking functionality or the ability to Nest
virtualized operating systems within other virtualized operating systems
virtualization setion so the bad news
here then is if you spend $11,000 on your operating system uh you won't get
any performance benefit the good news
though is that for $100 or even less if you're the Linux type you are already
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