Windows 11 is coming and some of you have been trying out the leaked ISO every bit have multiple media outlets and YouTubers. We didn't plan on benchmarking the new operating system only yet, at least until it's officially released or some official beta became available, but with so many others posting Windows 11 benchmarks with very mixed results, nosotros thought we should accept it for a spin and see what the real deal is.

So, this is no more than a Windows 11 preview and it's well worth noting that this leaked version isn't the final version and therefore functioning numbers are subject to alter. Nosotros downloaded the ISO and made the necessary modifications, so that information technology could be installed on our test system. Then far stability has been excellent, not a single crash and everything has worked. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the Mac-akin wait that Microsoft seems to accept gone with, just information technology'south not a large deal and I'1000 sure you'll be able to customize the appearance to suit your preferences.

Nosotros're not going to dive into all the changes, but we volition say that Windows eleven is certainly based on Windows 10'southward cadre, nosotros expect a smoothen transition, simply for the purpose of this article all nosotros're interested in is performance.

Is Windows 11 faster, slower or the aforementioned as Windows 10? To discover out, we've tested both AMD and Intel platforms. That is, a Core i7-11700 and Ryzen 7 5800X, both equipped with 16GB of DDR4-3200 CL14 dual-channel single-rank retention, a Noctua NH-D15 libation, and a Gigabyte RTX 3070 Gaming OC graphics card. Allow'south go into the graphs…

Benchmarks

Right off that bat I'll acknowledge, this won't be the well-nigh interesting set of benchmarks I've always put out, at least in terms of operation margins. I've seen benchmark graphs claiming 5, 10, fifteen and even 20% extra performance with Windows 11, sadly though for those of you running the latest AMD and Intel desktop CPUs, it doesn't look like the upcoming Microsoft operating system will net yous whatever of that...

Running Cinebench R23 appears to reveal the exact same level of CPU performance for both Rocket Lake and Zen three processors. And 7-goose egg pinch is no dissimilar. I'one thousand not going to bother talking about most of the performance margins every bit they're insignificant. In the case of seven-zip, nosotros're looking at no more than than a 1% margin between the 2 Windows operating systems.

It's the same story when running the Blender Open Information benchmark, which is highly repetitive and extremely accurate. In curt, no change in performance.

Nosotros run into the same with Adobe software, doesn't matter if information technology's Photoshop, After Effects or Premiere Pro, we're looking at identical performance using either Windows 10 or Windows eleven.

DaVinci Resolve Studio 16 provides usa with the biggest margin however, Windows 11 was iii% slower when using the Core i7-11700, though we see no change with the Ryzen 7 5800X. Although the data is based on a 3-run average I'd still allow for a 1% margin of mistake, and that means at nigh we could be looking at a 1% difference between the 2 operating systems. Either way, 3% is however a meaningless margin.

Gaming Benchmarks

Unfortunately there's nada exciting to be seen here either. Beyond the 8 games tested we're looking at no more than a 1% variation in functioning between the 2 operating systems, information technology's remarkable how similar the two perform, though ultimately not that surprising.

Information technology's rare that nosotros see noteworthy performance improvements for existing hardware when Microsoft releases a major OS update. In the by we've seen false claims of large performance gains, simply they rarely hold up when properly investigated. Information technology's unclear what changes have been made with Windows 11 that could improve system functioning, and if whatsoever such changes accept been fabricated we take no thought which hardware configurations they're targeting.

Highly Anticipated

So there y'all have it, the leaked version of Windows 11 appears to be basically identical to Windows 10 in terms of performance. We're aware of other benchmarks out there challenge 5%, ten% and even greater performance gains with Windows 11, and while that might be true for certain hardware configurations, information technology wasn't for what we tested.

We've heard things like Windows xi is faster due to a new scheduling update, but nosotros've heard talk of scheduling improvements in the past that amounted to very little. It's possible super core-heavy CPUs might come across an improvement, but nosotros'd doubt it. We've also heard that Windows xi will bring optimized scheduling improvements for hybrid CPUs featuring big and pocket-sized cores, which totally makes sense. Newly unleashed hardware often calls for software updates, simply those volition come in the future.

Some other of the Windows 11 wallpapers included in the leaked build

Considering Windows 11'south development was supposedly built-in out of Windows 10X, a lightweight version of the OS, it's only logical 11 would inherit some of those traits and that does seem to be true. Simply at to the lowest degree for the configurations we tested today, that didn't lead to whatsoever actress performance. All the same possible that for lower-end systems Windows 11 could provide a bit of breathing room and peradventure that'south something worth exploring when the OS is officially released.

There are other performance related benchmarks nosotros could have run targeting stuff like storage and boot times, but for this initial testing I wanted to focus on awarding and gaming benchmarks. As far as I can tell though, Windows 11 is just a new build of Windows 10, and really could have been simply that. It was Microsoft's original intention to stick with Windows x and make incremental updates over fourth dimension, which they accept been doing since information technology'southward release, after all Windows 10 looks quite a scrap different in 2022 than it did in 2022.

Merely information technology'd seem like Microsoft is looking to spice things up a bit and rather than just release another major Windows 10 update, they're grabbing headlines with the unexpected Windows 11 story. Again, consider this a preview, though I wouldn't look the official version to exist much dissimilar in terms of operation, at least for the configurations tested here. Rest assured we'll be testing and post-obit up with any of import information.