welcome to browser Wars the rootinest
toest roughest toughest battle to ever take place between internet browsers at
least since Google Chrome showed up on the scene a few years back and gave
everyone else a giant wedgie or whatever's going on in that picture with
its Lightning Fast performance and lightweight system resource usage but
that was then and this is now and now is Project Spartan excuse me I mean
Microsoft Edge the internet exploration
tool see what I did there that comes with Windows 10 and wants your for
attention but should you switch to it I guess we'll be talking about that won't
we also I'll be pleading for your likes on this video like a a like Badger or
something look can we just get an illustration of what a like Badger would
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video is going to be on the speed benchmarks we performed in Microsoft
Edge first things first Microsoft never claims that edge is the fastest browser
on the Block so then what does it promise to deliver that other perfectly
capable options don't great question and we're actually going to have a full
video about this on our Tech twicky Channel quite shortly so get subscribed
over there for that but in a nutshell Microsoft has got three main pillars for
Edge number one is easy markup of web pages and then easy sharing so I guess
useful for surface series tablet users and those people who are freakishly
skilled at drawing with a mouse uh number two is reading mode which sweeps
the unnecessary stuff out of the way and allows you to focus on what you're well
reading and number three is having Cortana as a co-pilot who suggests stuff
and delivers instant search results with
Bing unfortunately but hey whatever Microsoft I never wanted to actually
download anything that time when I was searching for a Thunderbolt driver
anyway man I hate Bing like how hard is this but anyway just like you're not
tied to Edge on Windows 10 though they do make default browser switching a
little more complicated than before you are not tied to being with Cortana in
Edge if you wanted to pair her with a stronger search engine which I guess
ties well into the unofficial but in my opinion super important fourth pillar
that's coming a bit later proper support for extensions like the other two
leading browsers from Mozilla and Google but enough of that let's talk
performance John was the one who put together this benchmarking setup for
this video and I think he did a bang up job we used a core i7 5930k with 16 gigs
of ddr4 RAM and a Samsung 850 Pro SSD
and all tests were run on a fresh copy of Windows 1064 bit with all the latest
versions of all browsers running vanilla without extensions to ensure a fair
fight first up is browser Mark which analyzes both the performance and
standards compliance of a given browser here Chrome and Opera remember it's
Chrome based run away with the contest with an overall score of over 6,000 each
both Edge and Internet Explorer 11 get crushed next is a variety of mostly
JavaScript focused benchmarks with some twists uh Peacekeeper also looks at
performance of a 2d game web expert looks at HTML 5 canvas performance and
HTML 5 test as you can well imagine dials in on HTML 5 performance and this
went pretty well overall with Edge only being badly beaten in speedometer and
HTML 5 test and even pulling out victories in SunSpider and jet stream
for our next test we wanted to take a look at RAM usage because while it's all
fine and good to talk about performance on a six core machine with 16 gigs of
six memory not everyone is running a configuration like that so at idle
Internet Explorer 11 comes out on top with Edge coming in second place then
under what I'd consider to be a fairly typical load with an HD YouTube video
playing uh Twitter and Facebook open a long Wikipedia article loaded up
somewhere else the Amazon homepage and CNN homepage Edge falls apart managing
even worse performance than our second last finisher Chrome a browser that is
well known for its RAM eating habits
these days we're not all about synthetics around here though so in our
testing we also threw in some real world stuff and John whipped out the
high-speed camera to do some practical webpage loading tests Edge was put up
against Chrome side by side on our 200 megabit guaranteed fiber line and the
results were measured by analyzing the footage to see how long the pages took
to load for YouTube videos Facebook and Amazon I think it's safe to say that the
difference was fairly negligible to a normal person but for CNN Edge got
beaten by nearly a second bummer so the
conclusion here is pretty straightforward Edge isn't the fastest
browser out there which no one not even Microsoft claimed it would be and it
still struggles with some comp ability issues although that won't surprise you
if you've read any of the user reviews out there on the net but the good news
is that it is a big Leap Forward compared to Internet Explorer 11 which
came in last in all but two of the benchmarks we ran
so here's to Improvement Microsoft let's
see if Edge can continue to improve compatibility enough in the next year or
so to justify its cool unique features
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