Does $1000 Windows Perform Better??

a decade ago you could buy a copy of Windows for a normal price or you could buy a copy of Windows for like twice as much that had extra features like the ability to join a domain support for more RAM or even the ability to head of video as your desktop background but did you get any additional performance for your money fair question and one that was asked many times only to find out that no no in fact you did not but what about Windows server operating systems surely a $1000 version of Windows would have some kind of under the hood performance tweaks right in today's video we're going to find out we now have awesome posters available for line of tech tips hex quickie and channel super fun check them out at the link in the video description okay so if we're measuring the performance of two different pieces of software the last thing we want is some kind of a hardware bottleneck so we're using a balls-to-the-wall configuration we've got a 59 60 x8 core processor from Intel we've got an X 99 deluxe 2 motherboard from Asus 128 gigs of quad-channel ddr4 memory from g.skill a gtx titan XP from nvidia and X 540 10 gigabit NICs from Intel and finally for our boot drive we are using Corsairs latest MP 500 nvme PCI Express SSD then I set up like a little dock so that with two separate installs on two separate drives of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 I could go through exactly asterisk the same setup procedure down to the order of reboots and the order of application and Driver installs to create the same basic state for both of these operating systems then any time I'm measuring performance of something like rebooting for example or a game if I have to screen capture I'm using the HDMI pass-through of this BenQ monitor going to an avi offn capture card over to a separate computer so nothing that I'm doing affects the performance of the system whatsoever no xsplit no nothing like that so at this point I've actually finished running all of the windows 10 numbers and you guys are joining me for the exciting part where we compare Windows Server 2016 and find out if it can blow Windows 10 out of the water or not so we got our screen cap going we got our first benchmark ah here it goes the i2 cache and memory benchmark Wow some of these are like down to the point decimal place of a gigabyte per second identical so our first result is in and it looks like pretty much within margin of error the performance is the same let's keep going time for everybody's favorite benchmark fitnah bench 1371 okay past mark cpu mark how exciting we are a little lower on the server operating system let's go ahead and log that and move on to this mark Wow okay so disk mark results are in and things are getting pretty boring we come in a little bit lower on the server 2016 machine but not really in like a big way or anything like that okay sorry oh so that's uh that's the adder results Wow very similar maybe gaming will be a performance revelation okay first game benchmark ashes of the singularity 4k high DirectX 12 here we go show me the big difference in three minutes and 15 seconds so curiously ashes of the singularity did have a significant performance difference but Server 2016 was much worse than Windows 10 CL rise of the Tomb Raider death okay last benchmark doom at 4k Ultra so far gaming is not looking good for Server 2016 okay then so outside of games where we saw a server take a bit of a beating actually they performed pretty much the same within margin of error but this shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone who's familiar with the term kernel so the kernel is the very core of the operating system that's responsible for memory management and for allowing the hardware itself to interact with other pieces of software and drivers and vice versa so Microsoft actually reuses fundamentally the same kernel between their server operating systems and their consumer operating systems and this has been the case ever since Windows XP where an ms-dos based kernel got replaced by the Windows NT kernel and the advantages of doing this were several so it streamlines development while dramatically improving the stability of the consumer product I mean what was the point when you really get down to it of spending extra to maintain two parallel kernels so that one of them could be good and one of them could be like kind of unstable it also dramatically improved interoperability have you ever noticed that driver or a software application that runs on Windows Vista generally run on Windows 7 without too many hiccups that's because they're based on a very similar version of the Windows kernel so what are the differences some can be easily reversed like control-alt-delete to find into a server operating system or pretty animations on your you know windows when you drag them around on the consumer ones some of them are artificially imposed like RAM limitations no remote desktop connection no domain connectivity for home additions and some of them actually come from third-party developers who might lock down their software from running on non server versions so our data replication software is an example of this or even from hardware companies who don't want their hardware running on non validated versions of Windows so the onboard Wi-Fi on this board for example even with a cheat through device manager manually pointing it at the driver file simply refused to work but the biggest difference comes down to the massive amount of code that goes into adding features that would have little to no value to the average home consumer so things like enterprise networking functionality or the ability to nest virtualized operating systems within other virtualized operating systems virtualization exception so the bad news here then is if you spend $1000 on your operating system you won't get any performance benefit the good news though is that for $100 or even less if you're the Linux type you are already getting the most out of your 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Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 2,123,751

Keywords: windows, 10, server, performance, comparison, review, unboxing, overview, operating, system, os, kernel, difference

Id: AHR2gCVSvEs

Length: 9min 35sec (575 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 26 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/McGondy]

Probably going to get downvoted for this but they're getting more clickbaity as they go on 😞

[u/Malandirix]

It definitely hurts the quality of content if they always release a video every day. Yes, this was fairly interesting but so many of their videos are so substanceless.