In the previous comparison test of the performance of Windows 7 RC and Vista SP1, the two were basically comparable and could not be divided into obvious winners and losers on both A and N cards. Recently Gizmodo a benchmark comparison of Windows 7 RC and Vista, let's take a look at the results.
Benchmark Test comparison
This test was selected as a 32-bit version, with the test machine configured to: 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB memory, 256MB Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT Graphics.
The first set of tests taken by the user almost every day to use the benchmark, the startup aspect of Windows 7 slightly dominant while in the shutdown and in Adobe Photoshop CS4 the speed of applying filters to 16.6MB (9764x3720-pixel) pictures, Vista has a good performance in Windows 7 RC.
Adobe Photoshop CS4
The second group of tests focused on traditional benchmark PCMark Vantage and 3DMark Vantage, except that Vista won Windows 7 RC in the 3DMark test, and other aspects of Windows 7 RC were superior.
Traditional benchmark test results
From the test results, although Windows 7 feels more efficient, the objective data shows that Windows 7 RC only takes advantage of the obscure benchmark test and is less than Vista in everyday applications.