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hey guys welcome back to harbor unboxed once again today we will be looking at risin 7 gaming performance as we've already done but though we bit of a twist this time we're going to see how risin 7 compares when using Windows 7 already I've gathered results for about 16 games using Windows 10 so I thought it'd be cool to see how those results compared to Windows 7 or at least in the games that use DirectX 11 anyway and the reason I'm doing this is because after that video quite a few of you did suggest as I retest using Windows 7 as there were users reporting considerably better performance of gaming performance on that operating system with the rise in CPUs in that initial video I found that in some games disabling SMT led to rather large performance gains while in some games that actually reduce performance and others we saw little to no difference since then AMD has conducted their own investigation to the impact SMT has on gaming they concluded by saying that it is in our experience that gaming applications should generally see neutral to positive benefits from SMT they went on to say they have seen this behavior in a wide range of games including ARMA 3 battlefield 1 mafia 3 watchdogs to civilization 6 4 on a hitman Mirror's Edge catalyst adds the division they also state that independent third parties have confirmed these findings I assume a watch to my video because all those games were tested and that is word for word the order in which I listed the games wrapping that topic up they said for the remaining out lies aimed against has multiple opportunities within the code bases of specific applications to improve how the software addresses an architecture we've already identified some simple changes that can improve the game's understanding of the Zen core / - topology and we intend to provide a status update to the community when they are ready another issue they addressed was thread scheduling AMD said that they have investigated reports alleging incorrect thread scheduling on the horizon processes in short AMD believes the Windows 10 thread scheduler is operating properly for them and they do not believe there is presently a problem with a thread schedule adversely utilizing logical and physical configurations of the architecture they have reviewed the limited available evidence concerning performance deltas between Windows 7 and Windows 10 and do not believe there is an issue with the scheduling differences between the two versions of Windows any differences in performance can be more likely attributed to software architecture differences between the OSS so AMD says that there isn't an issue which frankly is disappointing as I was hoping to see some decent performance improvements in Windows 10 via an update anyway since I have been testing performance in Windows 7 I thought I should share those results with you anyway to help clear things up I had plan to get this video out earlier but the GeForce GTX 1082 I released halted progress without wasting any more time let's get to the benchmarks first up I took a look at ARMA 3 and here the 1800 X did provide a slightly better average framerate using the older Windows 7 OS here we see a 4 percent improvement in framerate though it is worth noting that the minimum frame rate remained at the same testing with battlefield 1 we again see the Windows server provides slightly better performance that said this time a mere two percent performance bump can be seen so not exactly performance redefining figures this time Windows 10 comes out ahead when looking at the average frame rate offering two percent more performance that says the minimum frame rate was identical on both operating systems when testing with f1 2016 Fire Cry primal is a game where rising really struggles and we do see a 5 percent improvement on Windows 7 for the average frame rate that says the minimum was increased by just a single frame which is in the margin of error the firaon results are much the same in both operating systems as we see an average of 172 fps each so not much else needs to be said here really so let's move on Grand Theft Auto 5 runs slightly better on Windows 10 according to these FPS numbers though once again the margins do fall within the margin of error testing with hitman we find the exact same performance from the 1800 X on both operating systems so again not much else to really say here interestingly mafia 3 played better on Windows 10 here we see 6 percent more performance when comparing the average framerate Mirror's Edge catalyst played much the same on Windows 7 as it did 10 so again nothing really to see here overwatch played much the same on both operating systems that said we do see a 3 percent performance advantage in favor of the newer operating system finally watchdogs 2 and here we see this title was slightly faster you Windows 10 here we see a four percent performance bump well that wraps the testing up not terribly exciting results but I hope you guys have your answer now unfortunately this video was a bit late to the party yeah with AMD already confirming that Windows 7 has nothing extra add in the way of performance I didn't exactly address a burning question here still I was halfway through testing when the gtx 980ti rudely interrupted me and i wanted to get back and finish what I've begun sadly though Windows 7 hasn't really shown us that there's anything extra to be had or at least in comparison the Windows 10 doesn't necessarily mean an update to the Windows 10 scheduler wouldn't improve performance we just don't know at this point but anyway I do remain confident that there is still some gains to be had yet actually I hope there is anyway that's all for this one there will be more testing coming up shortly on the channel so remain on standby I'm your host Steve catch again soon