Performance in Simulators

Race Driver: GRID

Another game and another confirmation of what we have just seen: the performance of the same graphics accelerator will at best improve by 2% when you replace Windows Vista with Windows 7. It is obviously absolutely unnoticeable from the practical standpoint when the general performance level is around 90-140 fps.

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

We used the in-game benchmarking tools that do not allow measuring the minimal frame rate. We also enabled DirectX 10.1 support for ATI’s solutions.

The performance of AMD/ATI solutions leaves much to be desired in Windows 7. Other than that everything we have already said above is true for this game, too. If there is any performance improvement provided by the new OS, it is for most part very small, no more than 3-4%.