Vista 32 vs. Vista 64 shootout – PC Gaming

Vantage

Vantage is Futuremark’s latest test. It is really useful for tracking changes in a single system – especially driver changes.

There are two mini-game tests: Jane Nash and Calico. Also, there are two CPU tests but we are still focusing on the graphics performance.

Here is a scene from Vantage’s second mini-game.

Lets go right to the graphs and first check the Basic Tests with the default benchmark scores:

In this synthetic test, Vista 32 scores almost identically to Vista 64.  Now let’s look at Vantage’s mini-game frame rates:

Here frame rates switch back and forth.  4870-X2 shows perhaps a driver issue with CrossFire. Let’s move on to real games and real world situations and see what advantage – if any – one operating system has over the other.  Still, there is nothing that you would notice actually ‘playing’ these benchmarks as if they were games. Enough of the synthetics, as we move on to PC games!