Windows 11 is now ‘up to 40 percent faster’ on PCs with 8GB of RAM

<figure> <img alt="Windows chief Pavan Davuluri" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: Getty Images" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/gettyimages-2299110674.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Microsoft has been doing a lot of work to improve memory usage and increase performance on Windows 11 PCs over the past year. Last month the company revealed <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/1011891/microsoft-windows-11-speed-memory-improvements">Windows 11 is now "more responsive"</a> and runs better on PCs with 8GB of RAM, and now the company is releasing a new update today that includes further memory improvements.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">"On 8 GB PCs, Windows is now up to 20 percent more responsive, and multitasking is up to 40 percent faster in our lab test," <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/?p=180556">says Windows chief Pavan Davuluri</a>. One of the key ways Microsoft has achieved better performance on PCs with 8GB of RAM is through compression.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">"As a result, Windows can now keep up to 2 GB mor …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/1025142/windows-11-8gb-ram-memory-improvements-speed-performance">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>