Microsoft this week lifted one other improve block for Home windows 11 24H2. Thus if you’re trying to do an in-place improve from 23H2, you may take a look at our overview to get an thought of what you may anticipate. We shared these outcomes for Home windows 11 24H2 efficiency final month.

Whereas many exams confirmed margin of error variations, there have been two attention-grabbing takeaways from that by way of gaming. First the constructive, there was a particular enchancment in body technology efficiency on Black Delusion Wukong. We noticed it on all three of our 24H2 runs and the positive factors have been fairly substantial too with over 17% enchancment in averages and greater than 15% within the lows.

On the flip facet, single-threaded efficiency on 24H2 was, for some motive, decrease and it was highlighted in a couple of occasion, be it an artificial check or an precise recreation.

In addition to gaming, software start-up efficiency additionally took a large hit on the newer characteristic replace in PCMark 10.

With these in thoughts, we got down to see if doing a clear set up would cut back these variations, and likewise whether or not we’d come throughout different new efficiency quirks.

Thus we proceeded to scrub set up Home windows 11 November 2024 Patch Tuesday (KB5046617) on high of October 2024.

Identical to final time, our check isn’t straight-up apples-to-apples comparisons. We try to duplicate the utilization and expertise of a normal consumer and as such, all settings could be stored at default. That is how we’re evaluating the efficiency differentials of a clear set up for Home windows 11 24H2 vs an in-place improve. Therefore, among the settings like Core Isolation or Virtualization-based Safety (VBS) have been stored enabled.

In case you’re questioning in regards to the {hardware} we examined this on, Steven and I labored on this collectively (remotely), on his check bench comprising Intel’s Core i7-14700K CPU and AMD’s 7800 XT GPU (supplied by AMD for overview). The newest GPU drivers have been used on the time (Adrenalin model 24.10.1).

Once more we begin with artificial benchmarks first.

In 3DMark’s CPU/physics check, we see an instantaneous enchancment with the clear set up. Our 14700K does higher in each DirectX 11-based Hearth Strike physics in addition to DirectX 12-based Time Spy. This time, 24H2 attracts almost equal to 23H2 on Hearth Strike Extremely and manages to beat it on Time Spy Excessive.

So an 8.2% achieve within the extra single-threaded Hearth Strike Extremely and a 5.87% enchancment within the extra fashionable Time Spy Excessive.

The identical development continued on 3DMark CPU Profile which measures the scaling efficiency of a processor throughout threads on Time Spy. On our clean-installed 24H2 PC, we noticed higher scaling as soon as the processor thread rely exceeded eight. At as much as 4 threads, the 2 techniques have been an identical.

The most important distinction was seen at 16 threads the place the clear put in 14700K was ~6.78% sooner. With all threads maxed, the distinction was important too at ~6.6%.

Following that, we have now our 3DMark GPU exams. The 7800 XT for some motive did worse on our clean-installed 24H2 system however it’s one thing that could be thought-about inside the margin of error (max. distinction is ~2.23%). So we aren’t going to sweat it out and are attributing it to run-to-run variance.

Therefore, within the artificial exams, the clear PC positively fared considerably higher. Neither 3DMark nor Home windows acquired any particular optimizations on this interval and thus the efficiency differential is prone to be all the way down to the clear set up.

With that, it is time to transfer on to some real-world video games.

On Black Delusion: Wukong, we once more noticed an enormous uplift with body technology (FG) enabled on 24H2. In actual fact, our outcomes on the clean-installed system have been an identical to what we noticed on the in-place improve.

Solely the 95percentile rating was higher by 1 FPS within the case of FG off, the common was the identical indicating {that a} clear PC or an upgraded PC hardly issues on this case.

We had one other eventful outcome on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy because the 24H2 clear put in PC underperformed our 23H2 by a big diploma.

Apparently, Intel’s APO (Utility Optimization) truly helped this time because it smoothed out no matter difficulty it could have been that was bothering the 14700K as we as soon as once more noticed efficiency parity between 24H2 and 23H2.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider‘s efficiency variations have been inside the margin of error largely. One other noteworthy level right here is that APO didn’t crash on 24H2 this time. We have been in a position to consider its impact, and it most definitely helped on each 23H2 and 24H2.

The Callisto Protocol was a boring check run, there may be not a lot happening right here.

I used to be desirous to see what would occur in Far Cry 6 because it offered an attention-grabbing case final time. Sadly, for some motive, our clean-installed system didn’t default to the identical graphics settings that it had chosen in the course of the in-place improve. Thus, we couldn’t straight evaluate the outcomes. Regardless, it was nonetheless attention-grabbing to notice this distinction between the 2 instances.

We observed the same factor in a few different video games too, Assassins’ Creed Odyssey and Closing Fantasy XV. We’re uncertain why our 24H2 clear setup felt our RX 7800 XT was not able to dealing with 1080p extremely settings such that it defaulted to a decrease preset in these three titles.

Regardless, we may verify that our 14700K was not bottlenecked even at these extra CPU-demanding settings since we noticed a rise within the FPS output in all of the three video games.

With the gaming portion wrapped up, we transfer to productiveness. Cinebench 2024 exhibits the very same efficiency on 24H2 (clear) and 23H2 within the CPU rendering check, and a 10-point improve over in-place upgraded 24H2.

The GPU check additionally exhibits an enchancment on the clear put in PC however once more nothing too thrilling.

It was a bit disappointing to see that the clear put in 24H2 PC was slower than the in-place improve system on 7-Zip’s compression check. Whereas it was nonetheless barely sooner than 23H2, in comparison with the in-place improve, the clear 24H2 setup was ~3.5% slower.

PCMark 10 once more revealed attention-grabbing outcomes. For those who recall, final time, on an in-place improve, we famous that the app startup efficiency was decrease within the case of 24H2. Effectively, that development continued and actually, it bought worse.

Home windows 11 23H2 scored 24,096 within the software begin metric. In distinction, 24H2 improve and 24H2 clear scored 21,376 and 20,813 respectively. Thus they have been ~11.3% and ~13.625% slower respectively.

24H2 clear put in gadget was additionally a lot worse in picture modifying, spreadsheet processing and writing exams. Total, the 24H2 clear PC scored 9,999 factors vs 10,734 factors on 23H2 and 10,460 on 24H2 in-place improve.

Lastly, we have now the reminiscence allocation check on 24H2 vs 23H2. This exhibits how a lot system RAM every OS requests for caching web page information, prefetch information, recreation/app information, amongst different issues.

Talking of RAM, we have been utilizing TeamGroup’s 32 GB DDR5-7600 package that we reviewed final 12 months. Reminiscence allocation is the quantity of system RAM that an app requests and isn’t equal to the precise reminiscence used up by that software program. Regardless, it provides us an thought in regards to the capability of reminiscence wanted.

It is a main win for our clear put in 24H2 system. Not solely does it do fairly effectively in opposition to 23H2, it additionally massively reduces the quantity of allotted RAM in comparison with what we had beforehand on our upgraded 24H2 PC. The advance was seen in each single workload.

Maybe there’s a reminiscence leak drawback on an in-place improve that our clean-installed PC resolved. We won’t say for positive, however our outcomes persistently instructed this.

Conclusion

The concept of this clear set up overview was to see if the efficiency nuances we noticed on the in-place improve could be eradicated on a clear 24H2 PC and whether or not the latter could be the higher technique to improve from 23H2.

Whereas the preliminary impressions have been nice as we noticed important enhancements within the artificial 3DMark benchmarks, they didn’t fairly materialize in precise video games. Neither did we see any notable enhancements in non-gaming duties. And within the case of PCMark, we noticed a big regression in efficiency.

Thus when you really feel like attempting a clear set up of Home windows 11 24H2 in hopes of enhancing the efficiency, you’ll doubtless be dissatisfied; until you’re getting reminiscence hogged like we skilled on our upgraded 24H2 setup. In that case, a transfer to scrub put in 24H2 may assist.

Our stance on upgrading from Home windows 11 23H2 to 24H2 stays the identical, it relies upon, however generally, you aren’t going to overlook out on a lot when you stick with 23H2.