Windows 10 Features & Gaming Performance
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,147 words · ~5 min read
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we are moved into the new office and with it came
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new Windows
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yeah shiny new office but still the same old terrible jokes but you know what's
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not a joke today's video topic performance under Windows 10. does it
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hold up to Windows 8.1 what about Windows 7 users out there do they need
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to upgrade drop a like on this video if you're glad that our upload schedule is
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this video if you're happy to see it
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core i5 6600k processors check out the
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link in the video description to learn more now to start with the differences
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between different Windows is are obviously more than just you know
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performance in CPU intensive tasks i mean Windows 8 and the free upgrade to
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Windows 8.1 brought smb 3.0 which in theory allows aggregated speeds during
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network transfers although i've never gotten it to work Windows 10 has cortana
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the new edge browser actually there's one let us know if you'd like to see us
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use our sexy new 200 up 200 down fiber connection to determine which browser is
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indeed the fastest by mashing that like button ha i knew i could come up with
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something sorry where was i uh right Windows 10 features it's got directx 12
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although that won't make much of a difference until some games for it come out and of course it's got some ui
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improvements now that last part probably wasn't getting you too excited about
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Windows 8 unless you were one of the tiny minority who actually bought a
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touchscreen laptop and even though i have one the lack of a traditional start
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menu has really put an acorn in my tailpipe over the last couple of years
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and breathed new life into third-party start menu add-on companies but with
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Windows 10 that might be a little different the ui improvements are many
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some are pretty small things like automatically prompting me for a second
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window when i arrow snap tiling all my open applications when i
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alt tab a huge improvement over that rubbish rolodex thing that was
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introduced with Windows vista oh look we have a 3d accelerated desktop experience
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but some of them are huge virtual
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desktops which are accessed with Windows and tab are finally a Windows feature by
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default this has been available for years on Linux os 10 and even Windows
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with third party tools and the new start menu which i actually really really like
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it was as simple as giving me an all apps list and not taking up my whole
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screen with the start menu good on you microsoft there are still a few
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things that are broken as all get out like search i mean seriously if i type
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uninstall how is uninstall a program not
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the first search result and there are still a few things i just need to learn
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like i haven't figured out how to lock notification tray icons so i can always
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see certain things like safe remove hardware and networking so yeah so far i
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really like Windows 10. i did an in-place upgrade on my daily driver
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laptop and a fresh install on my desktop and haven't thought for a moment about
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reverting to Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 respectively but what about that
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performance well i had john our new benchmarker and writer put together a
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small suite of tests and run them for you folks on an identical hardware
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configuration across Windows 7 Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. all of them freshly
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installed and with the latest drivers and updates he used a test bench that
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consists of an Intel core i7 5930k and a
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6x99 deluxe motherboard 16 gigs of ddr4 gtx 980 ti and adata
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sp900ssd and i guess that's pretty much the relevant components and the results
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may shock you on our test bench and please note that
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with quick boot enabled and fewer devices in the boot menu and whatnot
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these times could be much faster but the importance here is the relative
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performance not the absolute performance Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 both left
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Windows 7 in the dust for cold boot times and go to sleep times but all
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performed very similarly when it came to wake time so there you go in pc mark 8 i
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don't really know what to make of that Windows 7 number there's no way on this
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blue orb we're standing on that that represents real world performance but on
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Windows 8.1 and 10 it basically tells us that they're within spitting distance of
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each other then finally we arrive at gaming performance where across a test
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suite that includes basically a couple of modern games that attacks both the
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CPU and GPU we ended up with well no difference whatsoever a testament to the
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repeatability of our gaming tests if nothing else but maybe there's more to
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this than meets the eye right now for legitimate owners of Windows 7 and 8
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Windows 10 is a free upgrade so while in
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the past upgrading for ooh new directx
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support that my graphics card might not even handle even if games that utilize
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it come out before the next Windows upgrade cycle was a bit of a tough sell
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this time around there's that i mean directx 12 looks ball in af and you can
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learn more about it in this Techquickie video here but there's also just
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no downside so Windows 10 gets a big
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recommendation from us from a performance point of view nothing to
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lose with our config although please no we only tested a limited
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cross-section of games and only one graphics card so i still think it would be prudent to see if others with similar
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configs to your own are having any issues but yeah it's looking pretty good so far
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