SP3 boosts Windows XP Speed with 10%, beats Vista SP1
According to tests by Devil Mountain Software Windows XP SP3 performs twice as fast as Vista SP1 on a same machine, and slower than the initial release of the Vista OS as well. 
The tests comparing the performance of the latest Windows XP service pack and the first Vista service pack showed that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (v.3244) delivers a measurable
performance boost to this aging desktop OS. Testing with OfficeBench
showed an approximately 10% performance boost vs. the same configuration running
under Windows XP w/Service Pack 2.
The tests were processed on an identical Dell XPS M1710 system w/2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and DDR-2 667MHz RAM and discrete nVidia
GeForce Go 7900GS video.
By providing Vista SP1 with an additional 1GB of RAM (that's a
total of 2GB) a
"whopping" 4% improvement in OfficeBench throughput was achieved.
Since SP3 was supposed to be mostly a bug-fix/patch consolidation release, unlike w/Vista SP1, Microsoft made no promises of improved performance for XP.
"The unexpected speed boost comes as a nice bonus. In fact, XP SP3 is shaping-up to be a "must have" update for the majority of users who are still running Redmond's not-so-latest and greatest desktop OS," say the research team.
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