Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows XP SP2 benchmarked
Over the past few days I posted two sets of benchmarks comparing Windows Vista RTM with Vista SP1 (first post here, second here). These posts generated a lot of feedback, and from reading this feedback it’s clear that what many people are really interested in is not the performance differences between Vista RTM and Vista SP1, but between Vista SP1 and XP SP2.
A few days ago I posted in reply to several TalkBack comments that I wouldn’t carry out these tests until XP SP3 is released. There didn’t seem any point. That didn’t satisfy the crowds who wanted to see Vista SP1 and XP SP2 go head to head. So, to cut a long story short, the pestering continued and I eventually gave in. So what follows are the fruits of nearly two whole days of work at the PC Doc HQ (the test was hampered by the death of a motherboard, something which rendered hours of work obsolete).
How does Windows Vista SP1 compare to Windows XP SP2? Read on[…]
Windows Vista, Vista SP1, Windows XP, XP SP2, Benchmarking, Performance, Optimiazation
XP SP2 outperforms Vista SP1
I tried this:
Computer A 4 years old Dell 510m with Windows XP SP2, Intel 2200 wireless card
Computer B new Dell with Vista and without SP1, Broadcom wireless card.
Computer C new HP with Vista with and without SP1, Broadcom wireless card.
Computer D new Dell with Vista with and without SP1, Intel 3945ABG
I copied 22000 files (18000 relatively small) and folders with 145Mb from the server to the computer one at a time.
I used a wireless AP Netgear WG102 connected to a LAN and a Windows 2003 server where I had the files.
The AP was 25 meters away with 3 walls between the AP and the computers.
Results:
A : 5 minutes
B and C without SP1: 25 minutes!
B and C with SP1: 19 minutes!
D without SP1: 18 minutes
D with SP1: 13 minutes
When I connected the 4 years old Dell with XP2 to 100Mbit LAN the time was: 2min 50s
As you can see: SP1 makes the Vista-computers filecopying go faster but it is a long way to reach the speed XP with SP2 - I have not tested SP3 - yet!
How can I make the Vista computers go faster? It´s a long way to the speed of XP!
/Roland Akesson