Google Introduces Octane Browser Benchmark
Google kicks the V8 benchmark suite to the curb and replaces it with Octane.
Octane is a much more comprehensive JavaScript benchmark that promises to test more features and deliver results that are closer to the real world browsing experience (in such applications).
According to Google, Octane introduces five new benchmarks that have been "created from full, unaltered, well-known web applications and libraries."
As always, the benchmark results heavily depend on the hardware you are running, so I won't make any performance claims for any browser until I have run them in at least a dozen different hardware configurations. However, my first impression on four systems seem to indicate that the dominance of Chrome in V8 is extended in Octane. Firefox 14 are 15 is up to 90 percent behind on single-core hardware, while the IonMonkey equipped Firefox 17 NB reduces the distance to as little as 35 percent.
Feel free to run your system through Octane here and lets us know what score you achieved on which configuration. Keep in mind that this is a JavaScript benchmark and Google's claim of resembling the browser performance in real world applications is to be taken with a grain of salt. There is not enough information to evaluate what features are exactly used and how much Chrome benefits where other browsers do not (IE9/10 did not even run through the benchmark).
It is still an incomplete benchmark and, for evaluation purposes, it is wise to use a combination of several benchmarks to come up for a more realistic score. I have complained in the past we lack an industry standard benchmark for browsers and Octane is just one more sign for that.
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Google created a Browser Benchmark Program that makes it's own Chrome Browser come out at #1 on all tests all the time?
There's no conflict of interests or anything here, right?
and?
safari 6: 7710
Chrome 21: 11807
FF Nightly 17a: 7133
i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz
3 GB of RAM (lol XP)
Chrome 21: 13245
IE 7: Failed to run (lol corporate guidelines)
Google created a Browser Benchmark Program that makes it's own Chrome Browser come out at #1 on all tests all the time?
There's no conflict of interests or anything here, right?
Just another example of a product not being in contact with day-to-day users.
My clients rarely complain about the browser SPEED. They complain about problems opening a site or a website looking funny in one browser but ok in another.
How about we first make all browsers render content identically, THEN we can see who does it the fastest !!
2679
firefox 14
win XP pro (32bit)
1gb RAM
P4 3ghz
nvidia quadro 64mb
hahaha
I believe this was to benchmark the browser speed. If I'm not mistaken V8, which is what Octane is supposed to replace, never claimed to do anything about rendering HTML / CSS correctly. Methinks this test was meant for in-house testing before they released it publicly.
8278 on Chrome [i3 M370, 8GB RAM]
amd 955
8gb
15931 First Test
16214 Second Test
15909 Third Test
i7-3770k
16GB of ram
i7-2700k, 16 GB of ram.
FF 17: 12769
Opera 12: 8184
lol?
Chrome 22: 21039
Windows 7 x64
i7 3770k @ 4.5GHz
32 gigs of ram
Radeon HD 7970 Oced to 1.2GHz
core2duo
3 gb ram
Firefox 14: 9719
I'll still take Firefox over Google's data-mining any day.
Either way, I won't stand for Google's data mining.
Core 2 Quad Q8400
8GB DDR3-1333
Doesn't run on IE9.
Chrome 21.0 : 12398
FF 14.0 : 7244