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Comment on Ask HN: What makes Windows 11 perform much worse than Windows XP?

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Do have any specific benchmark that shows declining performance?

One thing that comes to mind Windows XP was the last version without desktop composition. I don’t have hard numbers, but I would guess it adds more latency and requires more GPU memory than the Windows XP rendering system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Window_Manager

Just compare the minimum required hardware.

It isn't even possible to run Windows 11 on hardware that XP ran really well on.

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