Puget Systems has recently performed a variety of tests to determine if Windows 11 or 10 is the fastest for content-creation tasks such as photo and video editing. The tests were each conducted on four systems with an AMD Threadripper 5995WX, AMD Threadripper 5975WX, AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, and Intel Core i9 12900K each paired with an RTX 3080 and 64/128 GB of memory. The benchmarks were primarily taken from the PugetBench suite of tests with each test run multiple times.

The video editing tests were conducted using Premiere Pro, After Effects, and DaVinci Resolve where Premiere Pro saw a small performance improvement in Windows 10 while the other programs performed similarly on both operating systems. The photo editing tests used Photoshop, and Lightroom Classic with average performance equal across Windows 10 and 11. The CPU rendering benchmarks featured Cinebench, V-Ray, and Blender where once again the results were all within the margin of error. The GPU rendering tests using Octane, V-Ray, and Blender showed some differences with V-Ray and Blender both performing best in Windows 11. The final section was Game Development in Unreal Engine where a small advantage could be had by using Windows 11.