Microsoft’s sketchy Win 10 vs Win 11 performance claims pit a 9-year-old PC against a modern machine to claim 2.3X gain

Microsoft claims that Windows 11 is 2.3 times faster than Windows 10, but fails to mention that the comparison is based entirely on new hardware versus old.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsofts-sketchy-win-10-vs-win-11-performance-claims-pit-a-9-year-old-pc-against-a-modern-machine-to-claim-2-3x-gain

Created 2mo | Jun 28, 2025, 5:40:07 PM


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