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    Performance increase Win 8 over Win 7?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by KillWonder, Mar 25, 2015.

  1. KillWonder

    KillWonder Notebook Evangelist

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    As Win 7 only uses a castrated version of direcx 11.1 and Win 8 fully directx 11.2, would my 860m (dx 11.2 card) perform better on Win 8?
     
    KillWonder, Mar 25, 2015
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    Nope
     
    octiceps, Mar 25, 2015
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    That is about meaninglesss the paper it is type on. Here we go again with the W8 is faster then W7 koolaid again. They can port DX12 to W7 and will you say the same thing again? Most likely not.
     
    StormJumper, Mar 25, 2015
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    Performance differences between Win7 and Win8 in gaming is nominal. You can do any amount of google searching and see that. There's nothing between DX11.1 and 11.2 that will create some massive speed increase.
     
    S.SubZero, Mar 25, 2015
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    Will DX 12.0 with windows 10 make a difference?
     
    KillWonder, Mar 26, 2015
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    "Most likely not."
     
    TreeTops Ranch, Mar 26, 2015
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    pete962, Mar 26, 2015
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    Also this is not a game, let us see some real world results.
     
    TANWare, Mar 26, 2015
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    That will depend alot on the software that uses DX12 feature or not...I see where they mentioned in MaximumPC or CPU that there are some gain in DX12 performance but more testing is needed to see for sure.

    That's where the real meat is...everyday real world performance not benchmarks...
     
    StormJumper, Mar 26, 2015
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