Hello guys, so you all know that Windows 8 will come out very soon, so I tough why not to do little benchmark between Windows 7 vs Windows 8 so we can see is Windows 8 worth buying. This is the system that both OS were tested on: Intel Pentium E5300 Dual Core 2.6 GHz, RADEON HD6770 1GB DDR5, 4GB DDR2 800Mhz RAM, Resolution 1440x900.

So frist game I tested was World of Tanks. Here are average results between those two OS.

Windows 7: Average FPS 65
Windows 7: Maximum FPS 115

Windows 8: Average FPS 50-55
Windows 8: Maximum FPS 95

Next games I tested was Call of Duty 4 Modern Warafre MP, I tested games on my server (promod) with same settings ( same config )

Windows 7: Average FPS 230-250
Windows 8: Average FPS 180-250 (here wee see more fps drop then Windows 7)

Then I tested web browsers. Internet Explorer 9 vs Internet Explorer 10

Internet Explorer 9: Loading www.game-debate.com - about 2,30 seconds
Internet Explorer 10: Loading www.game-debate.com - about 1,60 seconds

Next test is testing RAM usage on both OS

Windows 7: RAM Usage: 600-700-800 MB's
Windows 8: RAM Usage: 600-700 MB's

Next game I tested was Crysis 2 on High settings

Windows 7: Average FPS 45
Windows 8: Average FPS 56

Then I used PassMark benchmark software, here are results

Windows 7: Simple test: 2731.1 FPS
Windows 8: Simple test: 2348.1 FPS

Windows 7: Medium test: 807.6 FPS
Windows 8: Medium test: 787.4 FPS

Windows 7: Complex test: 50.4 FPS
Windows 8: Complex test: 47.4 FPS

Windows 7: DX11 test: 27 FPS
Windows 8: DX11 test: 20.5 FPS

Last was BOOT time test, and shutdown time test

BOOT TIME TEST

Windows 7: 29 seconds
Windows 8: 21 seconds

SHUTDOWN TIME TEST

Windows 7: 9 seconds
Windows 8: 5 seconds