Independent eTesting Labs Inc., a research, analysis, and development service company, has taken Windows XP in it's benchmarking court. Their findings show that XP is indeed faster than any previous versions of the Windows series developed by Microsoft Corp. A quick glance reveals the following: Read More...
Average rated Windows XP systems: Run approximately 54% faster than Windows Me-based computers.
Outperform Windows 98 SE-based computers by 46% on leading commercial benchmarks, and by 27% at startup.
Perform equivalent to the record-setting speed of Windows 2000 Professional, even with the addition of extensive new productivity features. Other performance related findings: Faster startup performance: Windows XP is on average 34% faster than Windows 2000 and 9% faster than Windows Me.
Better run-time performance: This measurement refers to the speed at which Windows XP performs tasks while your computer is running. Improvements in Windows XP runtime performance are evident in application startup and time and resource management. For example, average application startup on Windows XP is 21% faster than Windows Me and equivalent to Windows 2000 Professional.
Memory and Performance: In systems which include the recommended memory requirement of 128 megabytes of RAM, Windows XP is consistently superior to previous versions of Windows.
Windows XP offers dramatically faster startup and resume times, highly responsive applications, and other new features such as Fast User Switching and an enhanced user interface. We have included these shots from the report:
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Overall system performance of Windows Me vs. Windows 98 SE vs. Windows XP Home Edition RC1 based on highend desktop PC's with 128MB RAM
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System startup times for the four high-end desktop systems (systems A-D) with 128MB of RAM. (Smaller numbers are better) Benchmarks used for the testing were: Ziff Davis Media?s Business Winstone 2001 v1.0.1
Ziff Davis Media?s Content Creation Winstone 2001 v1.0.1
BAPCo/MadOnion.com?s WebMark 2001 If you're XP crazy and interested in the whole 155 pages report you can check it out here. Adobe Acrobat Reader required.
Outperform Windows 98 SE-based computers by 46% on leading commercial benchmarks, and by 27% at startup.
Perform equivalent to the record-setting speed of Windows 2000 Professional, even with the addition of extensive new productivity features. Other performance related findings: Faster startup performance: Windows XP is on average 34% faster than Windows 2000 and 9% faster than Windows Me.
Better run-time performance: This measurement refers to the speed at which Windows XP performs tasks while your computer is running. Improvements in Windows XP runtime performance are evident in application startup and time and resource management. For example, average application startup on Windows XP is 21% faster than Windows Me and equivalent to Windows 2000 Professional.
Memory and Performance: In systems which include the recommended memory requirement of 128 megabytes of RAM, Windows XP is consistently superior to previous versions of Windows.
Windows XP offers dramatically faster startup and resume times, highly responsive applications, and other new features such as Fast User Switching and an enhanced user interface. We have included these shots from the report:
This image appears courtesy of eTesting Labs Inc.
Overall system performance of Windows Me vs. Windows 98 SE vs. Windows XP Home Edition RC1 based on highend desktop PC's with 128MB RAM
This image appears courtesy of eTesting Labs Inc.
System startup times for the four high-end desktop systems (systems A-D) with 128MB of RAM. (Smaller numbers are better) Benchmarks used for the testing were: Ziff Davis Media?s Business Winstone 2001 v1.0.1
Ziff Davis Media?s Content Creation Winstone 2001 v1.0.1
BAPCo/MadOnion.com?s WebMark 2001 If you're XP crazy and interested in the whole 155 pages report you can check it out here. Adobe Acrobat Reader required.
