Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)
Posted Jun 23rd 2010 7:15PM by Sebastian Anthony
I think the video speaks for itself!
If you can't watch the video: IE9 is some orders of magnitude faster than Chrome when it comes to hardware-accelerated canvas rendering.
In some other initial benchmarks, IE9 is about 30% slower than Chrome 6 in the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark -- and about 10% faster than Firefox 3.7.
I also tested FishIE with Opera and Firefox -- and believe it or not, Opera's a lot faster than both Chrome and Firefox!
Anyway, if you missed the news, IE9 developer preview 3 came out earlier today -- Lee's post has more info, if you're curious, or simply download it now.
Update: Firefox 3.7, with hardware acceleration enabled, keeps up with IE9 -- check the video.
In some other initial benchmarks, IE9 is about 30% slower than Chrome 6 in the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark -- and about 10% faster than Firefox 3.7.
I also tested FishIE with Opera and Firefox -- and believe it or not, Opera's a lot faster than both Chrome and Firefox!
Anyway, if you missed the news, IE9 developer preview 3 came out earlier today -- Lee's post has more info, if you're curious, or simply download it now.
Update: Firefox 3.7, with hardware acceleration enabled, keeps up with IE9 -- check the video.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsrichard.gaileyJun 23rd 2010 8:26PM
That actually really surprised me.
Great video.
kyleJun 23rd 2010 8:54PM
"IE9 is some orders of magnitude faster than HTML5 when it comes to hardware-accelerated canvas rendering."
chrome doesn't have hardware accelerated rendering, does it?
Sebastian AnthonyJun 24th 2010 6:27AM
Chrome does, but you have to enable it with some flags at start-up.
It's not very good though -- or at an early stage of development.
As Boris says, I'm sure every browser will have some kind of hardware acceleration by the end of this year.
OskieeJun 23rd 2010 8:55PM
Color me impressed. Microsoft managed to do something else right.
Andy GrattonJun 23rd 2010 10:14PM
What a dumb post, obviously IE9 is faster, it has hardware acceleration.
DaveJun 23rd 2010 10:23PM
@Andy-
Yes, and this shows the benefits. I wouldn't have known about it unless someone posted it. Here's to hoping that soon all browsers will have hardware acceleration!
ColorblindMonkJun 23rd 2010 10:34PM
I'll still be using Chrome either way, but will consider what to use when HTML5 starts to pick up on popular websites.
KualaBeeJun 24th 2010 5:50AM
The latest Chromium nightly has some form of GPU acceleration by adding --enable-gpu-rendering
--enable-video-layering
to the shortcut.
Sebastian AnthonyJun 24th 2010 6:28AM
Ya -- I actually tried those flags out a few minutes later (Lee told me about them). They didn't make any significant difference -- it was possibly SLIGHTLY faster, but 1000 fish was still impossible.
niebylski+downloadsquadJun 23rd 2010 10:41PM
wow - all I can say it that I can't wait to Chrome picks up hardware acceleration and runs with it.
I just tried this out and IE9 was pulling 60fps without dipping at all all the way through 500 fish - i only dropped to 40fps with 1000 fish.
Chrome Dev 6.0.437 struggled with anything over 100.
That said - I'm with the Colorblind Monk - I'll be sticking with Chrome.
Will HauckJun 23rd 2010 11:06PM
Chrome is too overrated. The Opera beta is way faster than Chrome, and it's a lot better looking and has more features.
Ziyad SaeedJun 24th 2010 9:01AM
It's not 'way' faster its 'slightly' faster. Opera doesn't even support for extensions. Geez it's 2010 already.
BarosJun 24th 2010 12:19AM
Good job Microsoft, IE9 will hopefully reclaim most of that lost browser market share that it has lost over the years.
For those who think other browsers will keep up and perhaps go further than IE9-
Think again Microsoft has never gone ga-ga over their browser in years so they might come back n bite you in the behind.
Ryan1000000Jun 24th 2010 1:12AM
the test was made by microsoft. in other words, BUILT FOR IE9. now stop being dumbasses and do a real test.
poster99000Jun 24th 2010 2:51AM
What are you finding in the code that is specific to IE?
Sebastian AnthonyJun 24th 2010 6:29AM
Ya, Lee and I checked before I ran the test -- this doesn't use any 'IE9-specific' code.
As I said, Opera actually comes in second place...!
Pallab DeJun 24th 2010 1:56AM
I also tested FishIE with Opera and Firefox -- and believe it or not, Opera's a lot faster than both Chrome and Firefox!
Nothing surprising about that. But, was Opera the leader or was it beaten by IE 9?
Sebastian AnthonyJun 24th 2010 6:30AM
IE9 was still about 50% faster than Opera (with 1000 fish).
I was thinking about doing a 4-way video of all four browsers on the same screen...
Pallab DeJun 24th 2010 6:55AM
That would really be cool. Well done to MS for jumping ahead of the pack for once. However, as some else already said h/w acceleration will be there in all browsers in a year.
MattJun 24th 2010 2:40AM
You should really try Firefox with acceleration turned on, it's faster than IE9. At 250 fish I'm getting ~35fps in IE9 and ~45fps in Firefox.