Windows Vista beta benchmarked against XP

A recent posting on the communal blog of CNET Networks technology editors compared the performance of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system against its existing Windows XP in a handful of tasks. Of particular interest to gamers, the Vista setup ran Vivendi's first-person shooter F.E.A.R. at a rate of one extra frame per second in 1,024x768 resolution but fell two frames per second short of the XP setup when running the game at 1,600x1,200 resolution.