Windows 7 vs Windows 8 – The Definitive Performance Comparison

HCW.net – For gaming performance, frames per second is not sufficient to portray actual gaming performance. This article looks at frame delivery times, in milliseconds, and shows pretty significant results depending on system configuration.

For office applications, trace based benchmarks were used to show overall responsiveness using real workloads and real data. This gives a better indication of overall performance compared to existing benchmarks that are hardware limited