Today we’re talking our first real look at Windows 11 performance with some Intel Core processors. There’s a few reasons why we wanted to test using Intel’s 10th and 11th gen CPUs first — of course, to see how much difference there is when compared to Windows 10 — but also to establish some baseline data that we can come back to in a few weeks with 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs, which is meant to benefit from scheduling updates made with Windows 11.
As far as we’re aware, Intel 10th and 11th-gen desktop CPUs should deliver comparable performance using either Windows 10 or Windows 11. But as always there seems to be conflicting reports, some claiming Windows 11 is much faster and others suggesting the opposite is true.