Today we’ll be speed testing Windows 10 and Windows 11.What impact does upgrading have on performance?Well, we’re about to find out.So, starting things off with the startup test, I wanted to take this time to explain whathardware we’re working with because it has changed from my previous videos.We’re using a Dell Latitude 7390 with an i5-8350U CPU with integrated graphics, 8 gigsof RAM, and this time we’re using 128 gigs of SSD storage.This was all done mainly to supplement Windows 11’s system requirements, so we’re makingthis as fair as possible.Anyways, back to the comparison, Windows 10 does take the win here, however Windows 11was not too far behind.As always, startup doesn’t determine everything, but it can give us rough idea of what to expect.And here’s a quick look at how much storage both operating systems take up with the samepreinstalled programs.Windows 10 takes up exactly 40 gigabytes of storage while Windows 11 takes up 41.1 gigabytes,giving Windows 10 the win here by a mere 1.1 gigabytes.Moving on to memory management, I tested this in two ways.First, I measured the amount of RAM being used while nothing was open in the background.Windows 10 took up 2.6 gigabytes of RAM while Windows 11 took up 3.1 gigabytes.That’s a 500-megabyte difference, and this can be especially significant if you don’thave that much RAM in the first place.Next, I wanted to do a Chrome test where I tried to open as many tabs as possible inGoogle Chrome until we hit 5 gigabytes in task manager, and we can see the consequencesof Windows 11 taking up more system RAM.Windows 10 got to 24 tabs and Windows 11 got to 20 tabs, another win for Windows 10.Next up is the battery test.Here I just ran a bunch of programs in the background that would drain the battery asquickly as possible.Speeding things up here, remember both were unplugged at almost the exact same time, Windows10 takes the win here once again, Windows 11 falling short by just a minute and a half.If you’re curious, I’ve also provided the total amount of time it took for bothmachines to die.Remember, this was a highly intensive battery test, so I’d imagine that in the real world,the scale would be even larger.Up next is audio editing.Here I loaded an Audacity project with a few MP3 files and an audio effect and exportedeverything into one WAV file.After running the export, Windows 11 comes on top for the first time in this video, withWindows 10 coming in just milliseconds behind.I wanted to add these light-weight tests just in case the difference in speed was that large,but in this case, that didn’t really happen.But now let’s to move on to something a bit heavier, and that's video editing.So, things have changed in this department as well.Instead of using some random video editor, we’re using something a bit more well known,and that is Davinci Resolve 17.This is a pretty simple project; a video with some audio in the background at 1080p 30fps,but it suffices for this hardware and our purposes.So, speeding this up here because it does take quite a while, Windows 10 renders theentire project first with Windows 11 coming in about 43 seconds later.And just like the battery test, here’s the total amount of time it took for both operatingsystems to render the file if you’re curious.Moving forward to application opening.I wanted to do a variety of different applications for this section starting off with a classicWindows application: control panel.Windows 10 does comes in first and Windows 11 comes in about a half-second later.Let’s also try Windows Settings, which is a modern Windows application and once again,Windows 10 comes out on top with Windows 11 having a similar delay to control panel.Let’s do something a little bit heavier: Microsoft Word 2019.This application has very long loadings times but nevertheless, Windows 10 loads up theentire application first, but Windows 11 wasn’t too far behind considering how long it usuallytakes to load Word.Let’s move away from away from Microsoft for a little bit and try opening a PDF filewith Adobe Reader and similar results: Windows 10 comes in first with a small gap in Windows11.Finally, let’s try opening a video file via VLC Media Player, and surprise surprise,Windows 10 opens it before Windows 11 with a small delay.So, that’s kind of funny actually, Windows 10 opened every application before Windows11, and the small gap between both was almost the exact the same for every application.What a coincidence.And I know this isn’t entirely OS dependent, but I wanted to quickly do a webpage loadingtest with three websites.First was youtube.com, and Windows 11 fully loads the entire website first with abouta half-second delay on Windows 10.This was then followed by apple.com, where Windows 11 takes the win here as well, againWindows 10 having this half-second delay.Finally, was google.com, and they pretty much loaded them at almost the exact same time,maybe Windows 10 came in a millisecond or two earlier.OK well let’s try something else, something like file transfer.I loaded a USB flash drive with about a 4 gigabyte file and tried copying it overto the desktop of both OSes.Speeding things along here, Windows 11 finishes copying everything over first, and around10 seconds later, Windows 10 finishes up doing the same thing.Just like before, here’s the total amount of copying time for both operating systemsif you’re interested.Finally, before we get to the benchmarks, we’ve got a virus scanning test.I’ll admit, I did run into some issues with this test and I had to do some reinstallationsof Malwarebytes, which is the software we're using, so just keep that in mind, it won’t be as accurate as the other tests.Nevertheless, after the scan was run at the same time on both operating systems, Windows11 completes the entire thing first.Windows 10 needed around 21 more seconds to complete the test, so there you go.And now it’s time for the benchmarks.This time, we’ve got a lot more software we’re going to work with unlike previousvideos, starting off with Geekbench 5.In single-core performance, Windows 10 scored a 471 while Windows 11 scored a 472, a onepoint difference between both operating systems.Same goes for multi-core performance, Windows 10 scores a 1905 while Windows 11 scores a 1906,a one point difference once again.Technically speaking, Windows 11 does win in Geekbench, but practically speaking they’rebasically the same thing.Moving on to our next benchmark: CPU-Z, in single-threaded performance Windows 10 scoresa 195.1 and Windows 11 scores a 195.7, less than a one point lead for Windows 11.Multi-threaded scores were a bit more interesting; Windows 10 takes the edge here by scoringa 1003.1 while Windows 11 gets a 1001.7, almost a one and a half point gap.Again, just like the Geekbench scores, these one point gaps don’t really make that muchof a difference.Next benchmark I tried was CrystalDiskMark, this one specifically measures the performanceof your hard drive or, in this case, your SSD, and well here’re the results.There are too many categories to cover here, but here’s a general overview of what Ifound, and if you want to look at specific results you can pause the video here.So, in terms of reading, Windows 11 generally performed either slightly better than or justas good as Windows 10.However, looking at the other side of things, Windows 11 had a significant deficiency inwriting compared to Windows 10.If you were waiting for something interesting to happen, then well, you got what you wanted.I also wanted to conduct a Wi-Fi speed test using speedtest.net.Instead of taking the best of 10 tests, which is what I did in previous comparisons, I testedeach operating system 5 times and averaged out the upload and download speed on both.In terms of download speed Windows 10 averaged to 88.078 megabits per second and Windows11 averaged to 93.692 megabits per second, giving Windows 11 the win here.However, testing the upload speed was a completely different story.Windows 10 scored 88.784 megabits per second, while Windows 11 performed worse at 80.438megabits per second, pretty strange.Alright now lets move to some more graphics intensive benchmarks, starting with Cinebench,a very heavy benchmark, especially for this hardware.After running the single-core benchmark on both operating systems, Windows 10 loses outhere by scoring a 439 compared to the higher 450 that Windows 11 scores.However, multi-core score was a different story: Windows 10 receives a 233... not 233-2033 versus 2003on Windows 11, a 30-point difference.Last benchmark before we get to conclusions is Superposition.This benchmark was offered in multiple different resolutions and graphical effects, so firstlet’s cover it when it’s run at 720p low graphics.Windows 10 scores an 1892 and Windows 11 beats it out with a 1943.I also repeated the same benchmark with 1080p medium settings, and Windows 10 loses againwith a 675 versus the 694 on Windows 11.And that’s all the benchmarks.So, let’s try and make a reasonable conclusion out of this.Just note, mine is not the end all be all of conclusions, you can draw your own if youwant, but I just want to give my own input.Based on what I call the real-world tests, which is everything but the benchmarks, Windows10 won almost every single one: startup, storage, memory, battery, video editing, opening applications,like a ton of them, there were just very few exceptions.However, I wouldn’t say that Windows 10 like completely destroyed Windows 11 or anythinglike that, they were still actually very very close in performance, EXCEPT for memory.If you are running Windows 11 on hardware with low memory or if you care a lot aboutmemory in general, I would be cautious around Windows 11, it does take up quite a bit moreRAM than its predecessor.Now if we move to the more technical stuff, which are the benchmarks and the numbers,this is where it gets a bit more confusing.Windows 11 did some things better than Windows 10 and Windows 10 did some thingsbetter than Windows 11, there really isn’t any consistency here.I guess the best thing I can say in regard to the benchmarks is that if you’re doinglow-level single-core tasks, Windows 11 does a slightly better job doing that.On the other hand, Windows 10 does a slightly better job doing multi-core related tasks.However, again, the difference in performance is minuscule.Overall though if I had to choose one winner, It would have to be Windows 10.It either outperforms or does just as well as Windows 11 in the majority of my tests.But I’m sticking to my same old statement: don’t choose an operating system solelyfor its performance. First priority should be its features and reliability.Speed should come afterwards.So, hopefully this video gives a better idea on how performance compares on both Windows 10 and 11.Like, subscribe, and thanks for watching.