Browser Benchmarks 2.0: the benchmarkening

It is in deed

will check this though

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It was at high performance

whoops, turns out im actually just retarded.

my bad.

Maybe background processes eating up too much cpu time?

For comparison: Firefox with my usual Stuff running (Nvidia, Synapse, Logitech, Discord, VLC and some stuff) and clean:


System was around 50% RAM and 30% CPU under “load”.

I left all my stuff open and running for my tests, including chrome for putting my results down.

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And now the full suite:
i5 6500
16G Ram 2133
1440p144
Windows 10 1809

Firefox 67.0 64Bit

Chrome Canary 76.0.3795.0

Opera 58.0.3135.132

Confirms what i felt for some time. Firefox is just slower in acutal website usage. It also used 600M more Ram with only one Tab than both Chrome and Opera

Oh, and CPU didn’t go past 45%. Seems to be multithreaded as well. Load was split on cores.

Just to make sure I understand this.

So basically, chrome is fastest, and then opera, with the sample size being mostly Intel CPUs and strictly windows Fedora as OS.

But still no AMD data yet then?
Thanks!!

So far it seems, most Browsers are within margin of error except for Firefox. Firefox seems to be consistently much slower.

It also looks like Performance scales mostly with Clockspeed. The increase from my i5 6500 to the i7 7700 was marginal, even though the i7 has HT and is a generation newer. The 7700k pulled way ahead of the 7700 (Possible Powerdraw issues).

And we do have Data for a 1700X. Interestingly, Firefox didn’t loose as much Performance on the Ryzen. Still Slower, but not by as much. I can run this on my wifes PC with an Ryzen 1600 later when i’m home. Thats the only AMD system i have access to.

From the spreadsheet @domsch1988 made:
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I’ve got a combination of different browsers and computers to test on, I don’t have them all with me now so I’ll edit this post later:

Xeon E5-1660V2 16GB RAM (OpenSUSE Tumbleweed)

Ungoogled-Chromium

Version 70.0.3538.110 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Iteration 1 64.96 runs/min
Iteration 2 64.37 runs/min
Iteration 3 68.06 runs/min
Iteration 4 65.18 runs/min
Iteration 5 67.93 runs/min
Iteration 6 68.12 runs/min
Iteration 7 68.70 runs/min
Iteration 8 68.14 runs/min
Iteration 9 66.22 runs/min
Iteration 10 70.75 runs/min

Arithmetic Mean:67.2 ± 1.4 (2.1%)

Firefox

66.0.5 (64-bit)

Iteration 1 57.62 runs/min
Iteration 2 57.93 runs/min
Iteration 3 54.85 runs/min
Iteration 4 54.22 runs/min
Iteration 5 55.26 runs/min
Iteration 6 54.63 runs/min
Iteration 7 55.42 runs/min
Iteration 8 54.80 runs/min
Iteration 9 52.80 runs/min
Iteration 10 52.26 runs/min

Arithmetic Mean:55.0 ± 1.3 (2.3%)

Falkon

Application version 3.1.0
QtWebEngine version 5.12.3

Iteration 1 70.47 runs/min
Iteration 2 71.41 runs/min
Iteration 3 69.71 runs/min
Iteration 4 68.59 runs/min
Iteration 5 69.95 runs/min
Iteration 6 69.94 runs/min
Iteration 7 68.85 runs/min
Iteration 8 66.19 runs/min
Iteration 9 69.59 runs/min
Iteration 10 70.19 runs/min

Arithmetic Mean:69.5 ± 1.0 (1.4%)

AMD FX 6300 16GB RAM (OpenSUSE Leap 15.0)

Chromium

Version 74.0.3729.108 (openSUSE Build) (64-bit)

Iteration 1 50.81 runs/min
Iteration 2 48.79 runs/min
Iteration 3 49.24 runs/min
Iteration 4 49.75 runs/min
Iteration 5 49.09 runs/min
Iteration 6 49.34 runs/min
Iteration 7 49.34 runs/min
Iteration 8 49.00 runs/min
Iteration 9 48.52 runs/min
Iteration 10 48.89 runs/min

Arithmetic Mean:49.28 ± 0.46 (0.93%)

Firefox

60.6.2esr (64-bit)

Iteration 1 39.91 runs/min
Iteration 2 37.24 runs/min
Iteration 3 36.82 runs/min
Iteration 4 37.49 runs/min
Iteration 5 37.68 runs/min
Iteration 6 38.10 runs/min
Iteration 7 37.48 runs/min
Iteration 8 37.53 runs/min
Iteration 9 35.60 runs/min
Iteration 10 39.31 runs/min

Arithmetic Mean:37.7 ± 0.87 (2.3%)

Falkon

Application version 3.0.1
QtWebEngine version 5.12.3

Iteration 1 48.14 runs/min
Iteration 2 48.03 runs/min
Iteration 3 47.03 runs/min
Iteration 4 48.26 runs/min
Iteration 5 48.43 runs/min
Iteration 6 48.23 runs/min
Iteration 7 48.77 runs/min
Iteration 8 48.83 runs/min
Iteration 9 48.82 runs/min
Iteration 10 48.19 runs/min

Arithmetic Mean:48.27 ± 0.38 (0.78%)

Tests are run with other tabs open, and other applications running; ie, a normal daily workload.

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Nice, thank you very much. This would, again, indicate that performance scales with clock speed. I’ll try to plot something.

Ive got a Xeon E5-1660v2 OCed to 4.5 GHz and a couple of mobile i5s and an i7 to throw in there, but that’ll be later. My Surface pro 2 will be tested with Epiphany instead of Falkon

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Just updated my original post with the scores from my desktop. Interestingly Falkon performed better than Chromium or Firefox on the desktop with an arithmetic mean of 69.5 and with the least variation

Just for shits and gigs I did a run on my phone

Naked Browser, android system webview
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, quadcore krait 400, up to 2.3GHz
3GB Ram, 800Mhz?
Android 5.0
1080p 60hz screen
Samsung Galaxy Note 3

My Laptop:

I5-7300HQ
12gb of 2400
1080p 60hz
Windows 10 1809

Firefox 66.0.5


Opera 60.0.3255.95

Edge: 44.17763.1.0

I’m not surprised by these results. Opera does feel more snappy on certain webpages. Coincidentally, I find that the video playback performance is inverse; Edge and Firefox strike me as having far smoother video playback than anything Chromium-based.

Anyway, tomorrow, I’ll run these on my Desktop, which has a Ryzen 1800X with 3200mhz RAM.

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My Desktop:

R7 1800X (not overclocked)
16gb of 3200
1080p 144hz
Windows 10 1803

Firefox 66.0.5


Opera 60.0.3255.95

Edge 42.17134.1.0

EDIT: I ran these again with 1809; results were within the mean.

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Edit: Updated.
Test run just once except for with Firefox where I investigated the results closer.

My Desktop:
Ryzen R7 1700 at 3.8 GHz on all cores
32 GB of RAM at 2933
Windows 10 1809 with current updates
1440p 142 Hz

91.2 - Vivaldi 2.5
88.1 - Chrome 74.0
78.6 - Opera Portable v60
72.3 - Firefox v66 with a clean config.
57.3 - Edge current
38.1 - Firefox v66 with my current config/extentions (*)

(*) Proved to be LastPass slowing down the handling of the forms. I should have realised since this test mostly deals with handling of forms.

Can you share some of those tweaks?

Yeah, i’ve had Problems with Lastpass slowing down the Browser in the past. Although all tests i did now included it on all Browsers. Not sure why it’s worse on Firefox.

Edit: Entered all the Results in the Spredsheet.

8700k @ 5.0ghz / 64gb ram 2666mhz / Windows 10 1809 / 2,560 x 1,440 @ 144hz
can only post 2 image.
so.

firefox Quantum 66.0.5 (64-bit)


opera 60.0.3255.95

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