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I remember Vista had some hardware grading system, and this was around the time GHz scaling was plateauing. I think really high end systems started out as like

• banana_giraffe 5y ago
  Vista maxed out at 5.9, Windows 7 bumped the upper limit up to 7.9 It's gone from the UI in Windows 10, but WinSat is still there (for some reason), and the range now goes up to 9.9.
• rzzzt 5y ago
  Vista went up to 5.9, Windows 7 raised the bar to 7.9: https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-experience-index-in-windows-7/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-experience-index-in-wi... Edit: ninja'd!
• Dylan16807 5y ago
  Eh, I think I managed something close to the max around that time on pretty average hardware. The current version goes to 10, open powershell and run Get-CimInstance Win32_WinSat. On that, I have an 8.1 on my SSD, and 9+ on everything else despite an 8 year old CPU.
• zamadatix 5y ago
  Running an actual WinSAT benchmark since it has already been mentioned Windows 10/11 top out at 9.9: System: 9.6 Memory: 9.6 CPU: 9.6 CPU Sub Agg: 9.3 Video Encode: 9.9 Graphics Score: 9.9 Dx9 Sub Score: 9.9 Dx10 Sub Score: 9.9 Disk Score: 9.7 So it looks like CPU (5950X) and memory (2x16 GB 4000 Mhz) was the limiter for me, closely followed by disk (MP600 Pro XT). GPU didn't seem to run fully and it noted some tests were skipped by default nowadays but for whatever it does check a 2080 Ti is good enough for a 9.9.