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
Â
Firefox
Â
Internet Explorer
Opera
Futuremark Benchmark (results ordered best to worst)
Opera
Internet Explorer
Chrome
Firefox
 ACID3 (results all 100/100)
Internet Explorer
Chrome
Firefox
Opera
RoboHornet Alpha1
Internet Explorer
Chrome
Firefox
Opera (Kept crashing, sorry)
Octane v1 (results ordered best to worst)
Chrome
Firefox
Opera
Internet Explorer
Â
Â