At the recent TechEd conference, Intel was demonstrating their new Smoke Gaming engine on a Windows7 machine and a Windows Vista machine. Both machines had identical hardware (Intel i7 chipsets internally, of course) but the Windows7 machine was significantly faster.
See what a difference the new Windows 7 kernel makes compared to Windows Vista. The windows 7 kernel is optimized for use with Intel core microarchitecture not only does it perform faster it also allows you to put a few cores to sleep while maintaining peak performance.
The demonstrator attributes this to Windows 7’s better handling of multiple threads and improved understanding of the Nehalem architecture.
See the demonstration after the break.
via YouTube – Intel Smoke-engine demo. Comparing Windows 7 kernel with Windows Vista.
