How accurate is Windows Experience Index? (Screenshot)

[Kroze]

This is my home theater pc. It's just a Core i3 2100 with 4gb of ram and a Radeon 4870. But yet this thing is nearly as high in rating as my gaming PC (i5 3570K, 8gb ram, and Radeon 7850)

 

[escrow4]

The WEI is dead in 8.1 apart from the command line winsat tool. That and the WEI is irrelevant. An i3 has plenty of puff for a HTPC (minus the 23.976 bug you may or may not notice that Haswell has finally fixed) and that is all that really counts. Oh, I'd stick a 260X in there over that hot, loud, ancient 4870. Proper DX 11.1/2 support along with x264 and other assorted decoding options whilst sipping power.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Its useless.

 

[lehtv]

It's just a Core i3 2100 with 4gb of ram and a Radeon 4870. But yet this thing is nearly as high in rating as my gaming PC (i5 3570K, 8gb ram, and Radeon 7850)

That's because there's not much noticeable difference between an i3 and and i5, 4GB and 8GB, and 4870 and 7850 in the context of using Windows. There's just no bottleneck in that context. Only resource intensive third party applications run within Windows benefit from more than what your HTPC has (e.g. demanding games, video/photo editing, massively tabbed browsing). Now if your HTPC lacked an SSD, it would definitely show up in WEI.

 

[mfenn]

WEI scores are also on a log scale, in other words it gets exponentially harder to increase your score as you get near the limit. So two reasonably powerful PCs will score much closer together than the actual different in their performance would suggest.

 

[Kroze]

Oh okay, I thought I wasted all that money to build a gaming PC

 

[aigomorla]

Pointless!!!!

long time ago it would tell you which games u could play on gfwl.

But the WEI is outdated, old, and pointless.

Oh okay, I thought I wasted all that money to build a gaming PC

3dmark... not WEI! :X

 

[Torn Mind]

Very crude tool to use. A "4" and a "7" is a legit big gap, but you still don't have a gauge as to how much faster(time to finish a project, measured in minutes, seconds, etc)/how much the computer can do(frames per second in games or video) your application will run. When you get to 7.8-7.9 range, it becomes a bit of a crapshoot whether you actually get a 7.9 or not.

I have a Celeron G550, 7850 GPU, and Sandisk Ultra Plus in Windows 8. Their respective scores are 6.6, 7.8, and 8.1 on the WEI. Small gap between your system's scores and mine, but you have a stronger CPU, I have a better GPU and maybe a better storage disk(SanDisk Ultra Plus).

 

[Johnny4]

It`s total crap, it shows better results on my laptop than on my desktop and they cant be compared...cause the desktop is much better.

 

[aigomorla]

It`s total crap, it shows better results on my laptop than on my desktop and they cant be compared...cause the desktop is much better.

lol thats because as u get higher, its a log function...

To this date i only can think of 1 system with a 7.9

This is how close i got to 7.9 on WEI.

it doesnt represent anything....
Cuz that 1 system that did 7.9 happens to be a overclocking server system with 12 cores / 24threads @ 4.5ghz...
You see how big of a gap 7.8 (990X @4.4ghz) vs a 7.9 (2 x X5680's @ 4.5ghz)