Speed test: IE 9 Versus Chrome

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Versions

  • Chrome version: Chrome, v. 16.0.912.63 m (straight download no add-ons)
  • IE 9 version: 9.0.8112.16421 (no add-ons running)

Discussion of tests run:

All of these tests were done using the versions of chrome and IE9 shown on 1/3/2012, the benchmarks used are from a number of sources. 

Acid 3

Both browsers passed the Acid 3 test with 100/100

CSS3 selector test:

Both browsers passed the CSS3 selector test as follows, exactly the same wording:

“From the 41 selectors 41 have passed, 0 are buggy and 0 are unsupported (Passed 574 out of 574 tests)”

MSU Speed Test:

Using the MSU speed test, and using my corporate machine here are the speed comparisons between IE 9 and Chrome:

This test is a simple one from MSU, Michigan State University.  (IP address removed, same for both tests)

Chrome, v. 16.0.912.63 m

Test Run 1:

Your test file size: 4 MB
Elapsed time: 3.24 seconds.
Your LAN connection Speed: 10.1 Mbps.
Your browser: Netscape 5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7
Your IP address:

Test Run 2:

Your test file size: 10 MB
Elapsed time: 12.3 seconds.
Your LAN connection Speed: 6.7 Mbps.
Your browser: Netscape 5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7
Your IP address:

IE 9, v. 9.0.8112.16421.

Test Run 1

Your test file size: 4 MB
Elapsed time: 3.05 seconds.
Your LAN connection Speed: 10.8 Mbps.
Your browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; MS-RTC LM 8; InfoPath.3; BRI/2; Zune 4.7)
Your IP address:

Test Run 2:

Your test file size: 10 MB
Elapsed time: 10.0 seconds.
Your LAN connection Speed: 8.2 Mbps.
Your browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; MS-RTC LM 8; InfoPath.3; BRI/2; Zune 4.7)
Your IP address:

Sunfisher results:

   
 
   
   
   
 
   
   
   
   
 
   
   
   
   
 
   
 
   
   
   
 
   
   
 
   
   
   
 
   
 
   
   
   
   
   

 

Fishbowl

In this one I used the Fishbowl speed test from the IE site and ran both in Chrome and IE9, find the test at:

https://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/FishBowl/

Placed the URL in both Web Browsers and observe the framerate.

Chrome and IE 9.0 were the same versions as mentioned

CPU and Memory Utilization are shown ( you may need to enlarge the images)

Chrome is on the left and IE 9 is on the right, Framerate for Google is 11 FPS and the Framerate for IE9 is 60 FPS.

Capture Fish ChromeCapture Fish IE9

 

Security

Oh I have mentioned the situation elsewhere, and even with hard non-Microsoft numbers you either love chrome and it’s insecure nature or you don’t.  That is a separate blog.

 

Conclusion:

You make your own.

 

All data, tests were done on 1/3/2012, if you have other data, then let me know.  Here is the numbers on my laptop:

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