We already know that Intel’s upcoming 12th generation Alder Lake processors are optimized to work great with Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system. A little taste of this from early testing of somewhat similar hardware definitely showed some sort of improvement, although the gains may be higher with Alder Lake due to Intel’s new Thread Director technology.
Microsoft also added that the operating system itself is also designed to make the most of the available hardware resources. In a video released by the company yesterday, Steve Dispensa, vice president of business management at Microsoft, reviewed some of those details.
First of all, Windows 11 has an improved memory and task management system that “favors windows of applications that you are running in the foreground so that they are prioritized with more CPU and other system resources. “even when the PC is under heavy load.
To demonstrate this, Microsoft used a free stress tester called HeavyLoad to stress the system and launched several foreground apps that all seemed to start quite easily without any noticeable issues.
Of course, in such cases a faster SSD-based system drive, sufficient and fast memory, and multi-core processors are usually already known to be useful in Windows 10. So it’s likely that Windows 11 will improve this even further with more juggling. efficiently with leading applications.
Recovery from sleep should also be faster in Windows 11, Dispensa explains. “We have optimized the calls to the hardware components that need to be powered on for better overall memory management. And at the software layer, we’ve reduced starvation on key processing threads so that power is preserved for the threads that really need it. “
Signing in to Windows Hello is also now “up to 30%” faster thanks to “code optimizations” made, Dispensa explains.
Finally, the disk footprint has also been reduced in Windows 11 due to higher compression now in place. Along with this, non-critical apps like Sticky Notes have a default stub state which reduces the overall disk usage of those apps. The overall caching of the operating system itself and the browser has also been reduced.
Source: Microsoft Mechanics (YouTube) via OnMSFT
