[X4U] XP <> Vista benchmarks

Robert Ameeti Robert at Ameeti.net
Fri Feb 2 11:22:32 PST 2007


At 3:37 PM +0000, 2/2/07, Stroller wrote:

>On 2 Feb 2007, at 03:13, Thomas W Noel wrote:
>>...
>>Synopsis is ... Huge decrement for apps and games that depend on 
>>the OpenGL framework ...
>
>I read this as "pending driver updates from ATi & nVidia".

The problem is the overhead that MS has mandated to ensure copy 
protection for HD that all hardware mfgs must incur including the 
graphics cards guys.

See <http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html> for 
why Vista is slower than XP.
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