XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB (opens in new tab) (Win10)Ĭrucial P5 Plus 2TB (opens in new tab) (Win11)

Radeon RX 6900 XT reference (opens in new tab) (21.12.1 drivers)Ĭorsair 2x16GB DDR4-3600 CL16 (opens in new tab) GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FE (opens in new tab) (497.09 drivers) And of course, using Alder Lake is one of the only good (sort of) reasons to switch to Windows 11, thanks to the new process scheduler that integrates with Intel's Thread Director hardware. Of course, that switch is still in the works since I'll be shifting to an Alder Lake Core i9-12900K system for GPU reviews in the near future. With that in mind, I wanted to verify that Windows 11 doesn't impact graphics card performance before switching to the new OS. Ultimately, two months after release, our Windows 11 launch impressions remain largely unchanged, and we're discovering even more disappointing aspects to the OS-like the Windows 11 SSD issues, which apparently still persist. We've covered some of the worst Windows 11 changes, and how to fix them. But in the process, it seems as though the UI designers felt a need to rearrange the furniture, switch around the drawers, and clean house on a bunch of functionality that I actually like. A new coat of paint would be fine, and I'm not necessarily averse to that.

Let's be clear: Change for the sake of change doesn't go over well with me, and Windows 11 puts a new coat of paint on the worn-in and comfortable feeling Windows 10 house I've been living in since 2015. So how does it perform, specifically with games? That's what we wanted to find out, so we grabbed the two best graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia and put them to the test. Portions of DX12 were eventually backported to Windows 7, and you can still get Windows 10 for cheap, but now Windows 11 is the new kid on the block. Microsoft tried to encourage people to upgrade by initially offering Windows 10 for free, plus it was the only OS with support for DirectX 12. I've been rather happily running and benchmarking graphics cards with Windows 10 since just after it launched in 2015.

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