I’m not a browser war kinda dude but I had some free time and decided to run some benchmarks after installing IE10 today on my Windows 7 workstation. Here are the results of what I found.
Browsers Tested
- Internet Explorer 10
- Chrome 23.0.1271.95 m
- Firefox 17.0
- Opera 12.11
Benchmarks/Tests Performed
- V8 Benchmark Suite (7)
- Futuremark
- ACID3
- RoboHornet Alpha1
- Octane v1
Environment
Windows 7 Professional x64 (Lenovo ThinkCentre m90p [Intel i5, 4GB RAM]). Tested 1 browser at a time; all applications closed. Fresh installs of each browser with default settings in tact.
Results V8 Benchmark Suite (ordered by best to worst)
Chrome
Chrome
Firefox
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer 10
Opera
Opera
Futuremark Benchmark (results ordered best to worst)
Opera
Opera
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer
Chrome
Chrome
Firefox
Firefox
ACID3 (results all 100/100)
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer
Chrome
Chrome
Firefox
Firefox
Opera
Opera
RoboHornet Alpha1
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer
Chrome
Chrome
Firefox
Firefox
Opera (Kept crashing, sorry)
Octane v1 (results ordered best to worst)
Chrome
Chrome
Firefox
Firefox
Opera
Opera
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer