Benchmarks Prove Vista Aero Does Not Affect Performance

One of the most important aspects of Aero, performance, was not shoved aside. A 47 page report concluded that Aero does not affect system performance significantly more than Windows XP GDI.

Despite claims by Microsoft haters it has not been proven that Aero affects performance. This isn'ta surprise, one of the key goals in creating Aero was to make its affect on performance minimal or non-existant. This has mostly been achieved by making Aero GPU dependent.

The only instances Aero could hinder performance significantly would be if real time hardware accelerated 3D graphics (besides Aero) was running in windowed mode. This can easily be fixed, either by disabling Aero when such an application runs or running the application in fullscreen (Vista automatically disables Aero in which case).

All in all there is no proof that Aero hinders performance besides the claims of Microsoft haters. Interestingly Aero is the least flashy of all 3D UIs on the market, OS X and the various Linux distro plugins really emphasize the falshy UI however Vista is very basic in nature and very simplistic.

VIA techy.Bytes