Battle of Win8 win7: daily number of measured speed

Windows repeatedly, Microsoft has been focused on the performance of eight at the start as speed is not the speed of Windows8 compared to other operations in Windows 7 after Windows 7, Windows8 is how fast, or substantially improved? Lifehacker foreign media for a few simple tests.

Past tests and professional, unlike what the current test of Lifehacker, the daily operations of our closest, in testing, Windows7 and Windows8 of testing the same platform will conduct a clean install, which is installed The same software. Test platform: Core i7 Processor 3.8GHz, 6GB RAM, hard drive 2TB, GeForce9800 GT graphics card NVIDIA, network speed 20Mbps.

Performance of the Windows 7 testing program in some other and better than the Windows 7 In addition to starting the same speed as compared with 8 for Windows. Windows 7, the most significant improvement compared with 8 Windows, boot speed, system start-up time of less than a third of Windows 7.

Specific test results:




Windows 8


For Windows 7

Startup (boot screen to the desktop from Windows)


10:00 min


4:35 pm 12pm

About 700 megabytes of compressed files


12:00 PM 29 minutes


32 midnight

Extracted for 700 megabytes of files