[Ultimate John]

Snow Leopard consistently beats Windows 7 in many general performance areas. Windows 7 only managed to outdoes Snow Leopard in the 3D image rendering benchmark and gaming performance in this test.
The test performed by Dong Ngo from Cnet.

Testing Computer:

The test machine is a 15-inch unibody MacBook Pro with a 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM, and a 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT video card.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard is installed on the stock 320GB hard drive (a Hitachi model HTS543232L9SA0). Windows 7 64-bit is installed on a 320GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue (model WD3200BEVT). These two hard drives have virtually the same specs, supporting a SATA 3Gbps interface, having 8MB of cache memory, and spinning at 5,400rpm.

The tester chose Windows 7 64-bit as Apple claims Snow Leopard is now a pure 64-bit OS with most of its built-in applications being constructed with 64-bit code.

Testing Softwares:

For each OS, during the tests, the computer had the following software installed: iTunes 9, QuickTime, Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare, and Cinebench R10. All are 64-bit except Call of Duty and QuickTime. Windows 7 was tested with QuickTime 7 (version 7.6.4), which is 32-bit, and Snow Leopard was tested with QuickTime X, which comes with the OS. The reason is that QuickTime X is not currently available for Windows and you can't install QuickTime 7 on Snow Leopard.


Windows 7 noticeably outdoes Snow Leopard in the 3D image rendering benchmark.


Windows 7 plays 3D games better than Snow Leopard.


Snow Leopard lasted significantly longer than Windows 7 on a single charge.

This post has been edited by Ultimate John: 16 October 2009 - 05:50 PM

[adrynalyne]

I think we have been playing the benchmark game for far too long. Anyone remember the benchmarks that Apple was throwing out there for the G4 claiming it was so much faster than its Intel counterpart?

The users knew the real truth.

That said, for OS X to be a true 64 bit test, I assume they loaded the 64 bit kernel?

I bet they did NOT.

Any shocked that Windows played games better? Not I. Ports are rarely as good as the original, for which they were designed.

As for battery life...we have all been through that. OS X has had better battery life for a very, very long time.

This post has been edited by adrynalyne: 16 October 2009 - 05:56 PM

[Preath]

I think benchmarks isnt that trustworthy... there is so much variables that have with the real thing to do.. as the system is different setup on every user's PC, and how the operating system is setup and what programs are installed and up and running, how much hardware that is connected that takes loading times that makes the OS busy. The operating system are faster with a faster computer and if you use a slow computer and benchmark it, then the difference could change slightly or very much between the two operating systems if you use benchmark on a faster computer.. so benchmarks are not that precise.

This post has been edited by Emil2k: 16 October 2009 - 07:26 PM

[PurplePeopleEater]

^

Good point and since apple designs their hardware to match their Os they can optimize everything and have less things running.

Windows uses third party drivers, hardware etc. so much more things are running at once but so many pc variaties can run windows

[Airflow]

Yeah, Apple optimizes their OS with their hardware, so no duh. It's not a surprise that with actually correct testing, Windows 7 would win. That's because Windows tailors for performance, and Mac for.. well hype.

[Som]

hmmmm just go to neowin.net to see why this article was pointless and shouldn't have been posted..... http://www.neowin.ne...hmarks#comments

for anyone who couldn't be arsed reading this

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Windows 7 64-bit was running on Boot Camp 3.0

This post has been edited by Som: 17 October 2009 - 11:38 PM

[fediaFedia]

^
+1
My first thought when i saw this graph was "biased"

[Preath]

Well, if Windows 7 gave a good result anyway... then it would kick Snow Leopards ass if it were ran on its own PC. =]

This post has been edited by Emil2k: 18 October 2009 - 12:55 AM

[coldemone]

why would they benchmark with one on bootcamp? peoples is getting corrupter.

[zool]

Totally agree.. So biased.. Mac just got their OS optimize with their own hardware selections.. What would happened if Leopard was to install on regular PC/Laptop - Thinking about Hackintosh.. It probably sux..

[kbzona]

If i was a mac user, these results are something that i would not be proud of... It's just showing that Win7 is soo fast that can even outperform macOSX in a MAC MACHINE!!!

[USG Ishimura]

Test it on a Dell or HP!

[Liskiller]

Agreed with kbzona!