Not really, or at-least as far as I'm aware. With Vista, they wanted to deprecate GDI and introduce WDDM with a desktop compositor so display and memory requir

Not really, or at-least as far as I'm aware. With Vista, they wanted to deprecate GDI and introduce WDDM with a desktop compositor so display and memory requirements were quite intensive for the day. No such major change with 11 AFAIK. The low-end hardware still runs just as smooth. As I said originally, it is more related to the unwillingness of IHVs to support hardware for as long as Windows does.