WIM format, for consistent and accurate results. But how fast is it?įor each build, I made sure that I used an installation image that uses the. Over the last Windows versions (specifically Vista and later), Microsoft has made major strides in ensuring that the Windows installation is as smooth and efficient as possible.
The setup process is the end user’s first incursion into the OS experience. For the purposes of this experiment I used Hyper-V as the hypervisor of choice, with 4GB of RAM, 4 cores and a 32GB fixed disk for each build. Today we’re gonna find out how much Windows 10’s performance has changed over time, by benchmarking 10 elements of the OS experience:īut first, a little disclaimer: although I tried the best I could to compare the performance metrics as objectively as possible, there might have been some slip-ups in the measurements. Especially with Windows 10’s Software as a Service approach, where it gets the so-called “feature updates” twice a year. One of the main reasons some people tend to avoid updating their PCs is that “it makes it slower”.
