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Chromium Blog: Moar better graphics (Chrome 18 released)

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Re: Chromium Blog: Moar better graphics (Chrome 18 released)

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Great news! It also seems to me that his has improved the rendering of SVG, although I don't know if it's actually hardware accelerated now or just faster.

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/SantasWorkshop...

Runs significantly faster and smoother for me now.

Re: Chromium Blog: Moar better graphics (Chrome 18 released)

#6

Great news! It also seems to me that his has improved the rendering of SVG, although I don't know if it's actually hardware accelerated now or just faster. http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/SantasWorkshop... Runs significantly faster and smoother for me now.

I have a quad core i7 SNB laptop with Nvidia 550M. That test gives me 140 presents per minute, while in IE9 it gives me 234 per minute.

These 2 tests also show Chrome 18 to be twice as slow as IE9:

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/PsychedelicBro...

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/WrigglyWords/D...

So what's going on here? Is Chrome really that far behind in graphics performance, or is it because Google chooses to focus on other type of 2D graphics than Microsoft? I'm willing to give Google the benefit of the doubt, because these sort of benchmarks tend to be biased when a competitor makes them (and that goes for Google's own V8 tests, too, where IE9 performs poorly), but IE9 came out a year ago, and even though graphics performance might not be the most useful thing to have in a browser right now, I still can't help but feel a bit disappointed.

Re: Chromium Blog: Moar better graphics (Chrome 18 released)

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Great news! It also seems to me that his has improved the rendering of SVG, although I don't know if it's actually hardware accelerated now or just faster. http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/SantasWorkshop... Runs significantly faster and smoother for me now.

I have a quad core i7 SNB laptop with Nvidia 550M. That test gives me 140 presents per minute, while in IE9 it gives me 234 per minute. These 2 tests also show Chrome 18 to be twice as slow as IE9: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/PsychedelicBro... http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/WrigglyWords/D... So what's going on here? Is Chrome really that far behind in graphics performance, or is it be…

Results for me:

Psychedelic Browsing Chrome 19.0.1081.2 dev-m gives 5983 Revs per minute IE 9.0.8112.16421 gives 1815 revs per minute

Wriggly Words 10K words Chrome 11425 ms IE 19746 ms

Not sure what you are saying is correct.

Re: Chromium Blog: Moar better graphics (Chrome 18 released)

#10
In light of the Adobe announcement that they're charging 9% for apps that use Stage3D and domain memory, SwiftShader WebGL in Chrome is pretty huge. One of the major advantages of Stage3D vs. WebGL was the fast software fallback for machines with sketchy GPUs or drivers.
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