The overall takeaway sounds like a mixed message: Windows 7 RC1 consistently beat Vista in raw benchmarks by a small margin, and lagged slightly behind Vista in some very real world measures. What's really interesting is that in regular usage, Windows 7 still feels faster and more responsive than Vista, even though the objective numbers say otherwise.
Windows 7 RC gets benched, compared to Vista
Posted on Friday, May 01 2009 @ 5:30 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Gizmodo compared the performance of Windows 7 RC with Windows Vista, you can check out the results over here.