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Battery life while working: 7% improved battery life which translates into 9 minutes.

Adobe Creative Suite: 17% speedier as compared to Windows 8.1.

Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint): 8% increase.

Now to the main show! Windows 10 won over Windows 8.1 in the following categories:

Repeated all benchmark tests three times and then averaged the results.

Left all Windows optimization features enabled.

Run all scheduled tasks and automated tasks using the “Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks” command.

Before the performance tests, following steps were carried out: In a temperature controlled room, Asus UX-501 notebook was used for the purpose which boasts an Intel Core i7 chip and 16 GB of RAM. To produce "comparable results" of both the operating systems, AVG clean-installed both the versions along with only the latest drivers and speed testing software. This latest Windows 10 performance test is here thanks to the researchers at the security firm AVG Labs. There is a plethora of reviews and tests already out including ours where we put it against Windows 7 (Read: The Windows 10 Review for the Windows 7 User: Misses More than It Gets).įollowing is a Windows 10 vs Windows 8.1 performance comparison helping you to notice where exactly is the latest desktop operating system winning over Windows 8.1. In today's post, we take a look at a very rigorous Windows 10 performance test which compares the OS against its predecessor - Windows 8.1. However, there is still a large number of users waiting for more tests and reviews before they could decide to upgrade their machines to the latest operating system being offered by Microsoft.

Windows 10 is already installed on over 75 million devices, globally.