Previously, Microsoft has at all times made huge claims relating to Home windows 11 efficiency and the way it’s sooner and higher than Home windows 10. For instance, again in 2021, the corporate said how the previous was designed to get the very best out of your system {hardware}.

Later in 2023, Microsoft shared detailed Home windows 11 efficiency enhancements and upgrades it achieved on the brand new OS. Whereas the claims weren’t substantiated with information, they had been actually fairly attention-grabbing.

Then, in 2024, Microsoft highlighted the variations in efficiency, citing a paid examine, to point out Home windows 11 was manner sooner. As with most commissioned research, the info was not represented pretty.

This week, Microsoft has shared new numbers based mostly on its December 2024 testing in a brand new assist doc. Listed here are the efficiency claims Microsoft made:

• Prime Home windows 11 PCs have as much as 2.7 extra hours of battery life than Home windows 10 PCs

• Home windows 11 PCs are as much as 2.3x sooner than Home windows 10 PCs

• Home windows 11 PCs supply as much as 3.2x sooner net looking than Home windows 10 PCs

• Home windows 11 PCs supply as much as 2x sooner Microsoft Workplace productiveness than Home windows 10 PCs

Thus, when you ask Microsoft, it’s going to say that Home windows 11 is best than Home windows 10 in every thing there’s, be it net looking, Workplace use, battery life, and general efficiency typically. The corporate notes that the outcomes are “based mostly on a 95% confidence interval” for every OS throughout a number of exams. Microsoft additionally accounted for outliers.

To succeed in such numbers, Microsoft used the next take a look at metrics:

For battery life, a neighborhood 1080p 24 fps MP4 video file playback was examined until 90% battery discharge on the Home windows Media Participant app. Through the take a look at, all settings had been default besides that display screen brightness was set to 150 nits and Auto-brightness was disabled. Wi-Fi was related to a community.

For the “2.3x sooner” declare, Geekbench 6 outcomes have been cited. For net looking, Speedometer was used, although Microsoft doesn’t point out the model. And at last, for Workplace, Procyon Workplace productiveness was used.

Apparently, Microsoft solely used Intel CPUs (the corporate additionally not too long ago beneficial Intel chips for Home windows 11 Professional PCs).

The corporate has performed it a better this time because it has “examined efficiency, battery life and utility capabilities of a collection of Home windows 11 PCs compared to a collection of Home windows 10 PCs”, the place the Home windows 10 PCs function Intel Core sixth, eighth, and tenth gen chips and Home windows 11 PCs pack Intel Core twelfth and thirteenth gen.

Thus, that is Microsoft primarily acknowledging that the underlying {hardware} itself truly performs an enormous position within the claims it has made. However to be honest to the corporate, there’s additionally no strategy to run Home windows 11, no less than formally, on unsupported PCs, such {that a} direct comparability will be made.

Yow will discover the assist doc with full battery outcomes on this article right here on Microsoft’s web site.