Windows 10 or Windows
11, which is the better OS.
This has been an ongoing debate
ever since Windows 11 was released.
And in today's video,
we are going with a
very different comparison
where we are testing the
actual real input delay
on various tasks that you would do
on your typical desktop workings.
Now there's also some gaming results
thrown in today's video,
which one of the
gaming tests that we did
is very enlightening,
where in particular Windows 10
will be ever so slightly faster in
terms of input latency
compared to Windows 11.
Now keep in mind,
I'll pull up today's
system specifications
on the screen for you guys,
where the only
difference in today's video
is simply Windows 10 and Windows 11.
We are using the
exact same hardware,
even the SSD itself,
which I did a perfect clone
and then updated to Windows 11.
So with the first
test out of the way,
let's get on now to some
gaming load times here,
where we tested out
two different games,
which will show
you the Apex Legends,
virtually showed no difference in
the load times here,
both coming in at
15 seconds a piece.
And then moving on to CSGO, however,
this booted up a lot
faster on Windows 10.
Now back to that input latency,
you may have noticed
that it was running
slightly better on Windows 10.
Now in terms of why this is exactly,
I'm going to be
making a follow-up video
testing before and after settings
for input latency itself on the
Windows desktop machines.
I have come into some
preliminary results here,
but I will have the
numbers out next month.
So do stay tuned for that video if
you want to see it,
but let's continue on with
some more benchmarks here,
especially on the desktop itself,
when it comes to input latency.
And here is where just like CSGO,
Windows 10 performs
ever so slightly better
in terms of raw input delay.
So what does all this mean up until
this point in time?
Well, basically Windows
10 is ever so slightly
more responsive than Windows 11.
Now, if you're doing
work, not just gaming,
this can add up with
every single action you do,
saving you those
milliseconds, which over time,
can definitely add up and
make you more productive
if you were to use
Windows 10 over Windows 11.
So maybe if you're a
boss, you'd want to deploy
Windows 10 on your
office PCs and your work,
but maybe if you're an employee,
you might want to use Windows 11.
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So the next test we are going to
show you guys now
is opening the file
location from the search bar.
Now, the search results were pretty
much identical here
when I was
searching for a file itself
on this 10th Gen 10850K CPU.
However, opening this file location
did present a slight difference here
on Windows 10 versus Windows 11,
and it was actually
in favor of Windows 10,
where you can see up on the footage
on your screen here
that a lot of the times Windows 11
will be working on it
when it comes to
finding not just an MP3 file,
but also MP4 files,
which we did a test
over 10 different runs
on both these OSs,
and I found that Windows 10
was saving you a little bit of time.
Now, keep in mind, I have slowed
this video footage down
to show you the differences here,
but again, if you've been
doing some soul searching,
looking deep within yourself,
you want the best snap,
Windows 10 gets
the victory here too.
Though another win
here for Windows 10
comes from dragging and dropping
five big video files
into Premiere Pro,
and then seeing the
delay until those files
are initiated in the
timeline on our project.
And here is where
Windows 10 one by one frame
when we're filming at 120 FPS.
So it's not a big difference here,
but it is still a difference,
especially when you couple it in
with all those other previous wins.
Though speaking of
Adobe Premiere Pro,
whilst I was in this
video editing software,
I decided to get the
1000 FPS camera out again
and do what was called a stop start
recognition test,
where if I press
space bar on my keyboard,
I can then see after
I've initiated that press,
which a lot of people do
criticize me for it being
not scientific where we
don't have an LED light
to tell us when the key's actuated.
But if I'm slamming
that key hard enough,
which you can see my finger,
actually, this is
probably the reason
my fingers have been
pretty sore lately,
is you can see that I'm
hitting the keyboard so hard
in one of the shots,
the keyboard's actually
bouncing off the table.
If I'm hitting it so fast,
that actuation is going to happen.
Pretty much in one millisecond.
And here's where we
found with the difference
between Windows 11 and Windows 10,
was it wasn't so much the initiation
that's pressing it
to start the playback.
It was when we stopped the playback
that Windows 10
scored a victory here.
It was actually quite surprising,
but again, it's just
those little actions
that add up over
everything over your OS
that makes the
experience better on Windows 10.
Then moving on to DPC latency,
here's where we had Windows 10,
145 microseconds
versus 175 on Windows 11.
This was done after
the desktop was idle,
and we tested this after one minute.
Though speaking of idling,
here is where Windows 10 actually
lost to Windows 11
in terms of lower power consumption.
We're getting
around 39.5 versus 42.5.
So there is a three watt difference
when the system is on high
performance mode in Windows 11
versus high
performance mode in Windows 10.
Though throwing up
another win for Windows 11
was when we opened up Edge browser
with 10 YouTube tabs
loaded up into that browser,
which would initiate
the screen fast enough
in terms of actual
content, and that was Windows 11.
Though with those
tests all finished,
it's time to close off this video
with some classical benchmarks.
And this is the Windows 10 versus
Windows 11 boot times,
and here is where Windows
10 scores a victory here
at 25 seconds versus 37
seconds on Windows 11.
Now you may be wondering,
what's the big discrepancy here?
Well, Windows 11 requires two things
that Windows 10 doesn't require,
and that is the trusted platform
module or TPM 2.0.
In this case on Intel,
you have to enable Intel trusted
platform in the BIOS,
as well as the secure boot setting.
Now when it comes to FPS in games,
here is where we did
a benchmark on CSGO,
and we actually found that the FPS
was higher on Windows 10
in this particular benchmark,
meaning if anything, there would be
slightly less CPU
overhead on Windows 10,
even whilst you were
gaming versus Windows 11.
Now we did test out Apex
Legends after this too,
however, there was
virtually no difference
between these two OSs in this
particular title.
There were those
numbers out of the way.
It's now time to give
you guys a conclusion
on Windows 11 versus Windows 10.
Recently, I've
backtracked to Windows 10
because I've just been focusing on
my quality of life,
it may sound a little bit weird,
but we do weird at Tech
Yes City, don't worry.
And I do all these explanations that
I think, I don't know,
a lot of people lately wanna hear.
So for me lately,
I've been wanting to get back to a
place before 2020,
and that involved
me using Windows 10,
it involved me using a
particular set of hardware
that I just remember
was so blazingly fast
when I was doing my video editing.
Then all that stuff
happened after 2020,
and then I had to move to Japan,
and in between all that,
I just didn't get time to properly
focus on my hardware
that I was using,
but it wasn't until recently
that things have
calmed down a little bit,
that I've had time to
focus on this stuff and say,
hey, I remember that was
faster, that was better.
Even though in the tech space,
we've been getting
served up better hardware
and better software, I
don't believe that's the case.
And so these tests
here today show that
although Windows 11
did score a victory
in power consumption slightly,
and also the edge browser times,
when it came to the
desktop experience
and doing a lot of
actions per minute,
this is where Windows
10 is a better OS for me,
and so for me doing
these tests here today,
it's validating something that was
in the back of my head
that I subjectively noticed,
and then I'm actually
doing the testing here,
and I'm finding out
some big differences.
Though in terms of the biggest
differences for input lag,
we are going to make a
video on that next month.
I'm doing some more testing
with certain settings on versus off.
I've already
found, as I said before,
some great preliminary results here,
so do stay tuned for that video.
So what you need to do
from these tests here today
is what's the better OS for you?
Do you need a better looking OS?
Well, that's going to be Windows 11.
Do you need more
snappy, more responsive OS?
That's going to be Windows 10,
but on that same time,
I do believe Windows 11
has better HDR support too.
So there are some reasons to go with
either of the two here,
but for me personally, I want to
have the best user experience
in terms of snappiness,
so I'm going with Windows 10.
However, if you
want to find out more
between the
differences on these OSs,
I'll put a link to
another video right up here
so you can watch that and see more
of these differences
before you settle on
which OS is best for you.
Anyhow guys, I hope you
enjoyed today's video.
If you did, be sure
to hit that like button
and also let us know in
the comment section below
what OS are you using and why.
Love reading your thoughts and
opinions as always.
And with that aside, we've got the
question of the day here,
which comes from Skylucatius8463,
and they ask, what does he mean
at six minutes and one second?
Apples to apples to apples.
And this is in a different video
where we were
talking about air coolers,
but when I'm talking
about apples to apples
or even apples to apples to apples,
it means that
everything is the same.
All the external variables are the
same in the tests,
but the actual products themselves.
So for instance, today the
test was apples to apples
and that all the
hardware was the same
except just Windows
10 versus Windows 11.
All the settings I had
from Windows 10 were there
because I just
upgraded the OS to Windows 11.
So therefore that
made this whole test
really apples to apples.
Another example would
be if we're testing out
two different CPUs, say for
instance, a 7950X versus a 3900K.
However, we tested
the 3900K at 20 degrees
versus the 7950X at 35 degrees,
that would then be
apples to oranges.
So we have to make sure when we're
doing testing for you guys
and getting your results,
we have to make sure everything is
apples to apples.
So hopefully that
answers that question.
And with that aside,
I'll catch you guys in
another tech video very soon.
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Big thanks to VIPS CD Keys for
making this video possible,
and I'll see you in the next one.
Peace out for now.
Bye.
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