Comparison of Windows Vista and Windows XP: Difference between revisions

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Another test was performed by ''[[Tom's Hardware]]'' in January 2007.<ref>[http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/xp-vs-vista,1531.html Windows XP vs. Vista: The Benchmark Rundown: Is Windows Vista Faster Than XP?], Tom's Hardware</ref> Applications such as ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004]]'' and the graphics [[benchmarking]] suite SPECviewperf 9.03 suffered heavily from the lack of support for the [[OpenGL]] graphics library under Vista. They reached the conclusion that Windows Vista clearly is not a great new performer when it comes to [[Execution (computing)|executing]] single applications at maximum speed. On the other hand, they did not find evidence that Windows Vista's [[Desktop Window Manager]] (DWM) consumes more energy than Windows XP's window manager. All of the tests were performed on a computer with a 2.93&nbsp;GHz [[Intel Core 2 Extreme]] X6800 processor, 2× 1024 MB DDR2-800 [[random-access memory|RAM]], HIS Radeon X1900XTX IceQ3 [[graphics card]], 150 GB [[Western Digital]] WD1500ADFD [[hard disk drive|hard drive]] and a [[Gigabyte Technology|Gigabyte]] GA-965P-DQ6 [[motherboard]].

ScientificA paper aboutevaluating [http://www.jucs.org/jucs_18_2/performance_evaluation_of_recentthe performance evaluation of recent Windows operating systemsystems performance] concludesconcluded that Windows Vista doesn'tdid not provide a better overall performance on the high-end computer system compared to Windows XP. Some performance improvements cancould be seen in memory management and graphics display, but other parts of OS have equal or lower performance than Windows XP. On thea low-end computer system, Windows XP outperformsoutperformed Windows Vista in most tested areas. Windows OS network performance depends on the packet size and used protocol. However, in general, Windows Vista compared to Windows XP shows better network performance particularly for the medium-sized packets.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Martinovic, |first1=Goran; |last2=Balen, |first2=Josip; Čukić,|last3=Cukic |first3=Bojan, [http://www.jucs.org/jucs_18_2/performance_evaluation_of_recent/jucs_18_02_0218_0263_martinovic.pdf "|title=Performance Evaluation of Recent Windows Operating Systems"], |journal=Journal of universalUniversal computerComputer science.Science 18 (|date=2012), |volume=18 |issue=2; 218|pages=218–263|doi-access=free |doi=10.3217/jucs-018-02-2630218}}</ref>

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