Microsoft Just Made Windows 11 Up To 40% Faster On PCs With 8GB Of RAM
After making some real gains in efficiency with Windows 11 26H2, Redmond isn't finished yet. Microsoft's Windows honcho Pavan Davuluri says that, after yesterday's updates, Windows 11 is 20% more responsive, offers 40% faster multitasking, and has seen significant reductions in memory usage across the platform and ecosystem. Despite that the purpose was primarily to make Windows less miserable on 8GB laptops due to the ongoing RAMageddon, these gains are real, and Microsoft deserves to be praised for them.
I can actually verify the gains in Windows 11 26H2 with real empirical testing. In my recent review of the ASUS ROG XBOX Ally X20, I retested every single handheld I have, including the original ROG Ally machinewith just 16GB of RAM. Remember that in these handheld devices, the graphics memory is borrowed from main memory; with Windows 11 25H2, I wasn't able to run some demanding games...
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