The ISO of an unfinished build from the end of May of Windows 11 was leaked a few days ago, and users are running all kinds of tests on the system. Little by little progress is being made when it comes to recovering lost items with the new interface, or customizing it to our liking. Some are also doing Windows benchmarks.
These benchmarks looked overly promising, where the operating system was better than Windows 10 on everything. To start with, the boot was 13 seconds, compared to 16 in Windows 10 (18.75% faster). In 3DMark , the numbers were 7,613 vs. 6,872, and SSDs read and wrote faster.
The problem is that these leaked tests were not done correctly as the Windows power usage settings were not the same. In the case of Windows 10, the computer was at the Recommended setting, while in Windows 11 it was at High Performance.
Other well-done tests do point to improvements
However, although in principle there were not going to be substantial changes as both operating systems share the same base, in reality there are changes that could imply a performance improvement . That’s the case with Intel‘s new hybrid chips, such as those based on the Lakefield architecture , which would improve by up to 5.8% based on Cinebench tests. Therefore, it could be that some improvements have been made internally.
And it is that Windows 11 is going to integrate improvements in the operating system scheduler. CPU Scheduling is a process that determines which process will use the processor while another process is waiting for its capacity to be released. With this, the operating system has to decide which process to prioritize at all times.
Intel hybrid CPUs will get better with Windows 11
Microsoft and Intel have been working together for some time to optimize the performance of the operating system and processors. Intel will use in its 12th generation of Alder Lake processors a combination of normal cores and other low-power ones, in a similar way to what we find in phones with ARM chips with big.LITTLE , such as those from Qualcomm.
Windows 11 scheduling improvements would be geared towards these hybrid CPUs , so current processors wouldn’t benefit as much in the absence of final tests to see how the new scheduler affects the latest Intel and AMD chips. The first Alder Lake CPUs will be out at the end of the year around the same date as Windows 11, so new processors could benefit from these changes early on. In addition to performance improvements, in laptops we would also find an improvement in battery consumption.
To know more details about the possible performance improvements of the operating system, we will have to wait until next Thursday at 17:00.