[dehx]

As most of you know, the 5308 build of the Vista beta is out.

Ever since Vista has been in beta I have yet to see ANY benchmarks on the OS, so I took the liberty to do it myself.

I got the new Readeon drivers for my X1900XTX from ATI.

here are my system specs:

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (2.4 Ghz, 512 KB cache)
Radeon X1900XTX
Asus A8R-MVP
1 GB PC4800 DDR SDRAM (OCZ Platinum Elite)
160 GB WD Sata

My benchmarks are as follows. Vsync was turned off in all thesetest to get the real framerate readings. I know that Windows Vista is still in Bea form, but I have never seen s much improvement in a product from Beta to Release that would make up for these score differences.

HL2:Counter Strike Source Video Stress test
(at 1280x1024, AA 6x, AF 16x, All settings high)

Windows XP: 181 Fps Average
Windows Vista: 91 Fps Average

F.E.A.R Stress Test
(1280x960, AA 4x, AF 16x)

Windows XP
Hi:159
Average:63
Low:32

Windows Vista
Hi:79
Average:41
Low:19

[Rasta Monsta]

I won't be alarmed by that until the OS is released (Now bumped to Jan 07!), and non-Beta drivers are available.

rasta

[PandaZ3]

MS has always had to fix things after the real Beta testers (JQ Public) get a hold of a program. I am not suprised to see it pushed back either. It is a big unwieldly project. I will wait for the 2nd or 3rd month of retail sales to buy it, then I can download all the latest fixes.

[Judas]

xp x64 preforms roughly 10% slower then xp x32..... when a x64 native 3d program however is used.... xp x64 runs quite a noticeable amount better/faster/stable.

Ut2004 x64
Halflife 2 x64

as examples

IMO, being both beta, and vista going to be natively x64 (with a downgraded x32 counterpart)...... i both expect an initial slower result because of running 32bit apps on a x64 system, and that it's beta and running quite poorly then the finished fined tuned results...

[The_Neon_Cowboy]

um you realise it in BETA, that mean it loaded to the
huilt with debuggers, etc... so you can't really test
right now. AS i will not be indicated AT ALL of the
final product...

hice there been no testing