Web Browser Performance Showdown – Edge vs Chrome vs IE11 vs Opera
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,298 words · ~6 min read
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welcome to browser Wars the rootinest
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toest roughest toughest battle to ever take place between internet browsers at
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least since Google Chrome showed up on the scene a few years back and gave
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everyone else a giant wedgie or whatever's going on in that picture with
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its Lightning Fast performance and lightweight system resource usage but
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that was then and this is now and now is Project Spartan excuse me I mean
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Microsoft Edge the internet exploration
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tool see what I did there that comes with Windows 10 and wants your for
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attention but should you switch to it I guess we'll be talking about that won't
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video is going to be on the speed benchmarks we performed in Microsoft
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Edge first things first Microsoft never claims that edge is the fastest browser
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on the Block so then what does it promise to deliver that other perfectly
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capable options don't great question and we're actually going to have a full
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video about this on our Tech twicky Channel quite shortly so get subscribed
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over there for that but in a nutshell Microsoft has got three main pillars for
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Edge number one is easy markup of web pages and then easy sharing so I guess
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useful for surface series tablet users and those people who are freakishly
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skilled at drawing with a mouse uh number two is reading mode which sweeps
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the unnecessary stuff out of the way and allows you to focus on what you're well
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reading and number three is having Cortana as a co-pilot who suggests stuff
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and delivers instant search results with
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Bing unfortunately but hey whatever Microsoft I never wanted to actually
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download anything that time when I was searching for a Thunderbolt driver
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anyway man I hate Bing like how hard is this but anyway just like you're not
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tied to Edge on Windows 10 though they do make default browser switching a
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little more complicated than before you are not tied to being with Cortana in
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Edge if you wanted to pair her with a stronger search engine which I guess
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ties well into the unofficial but in my opinion super important fourth pillar
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that's coming a bit later proper support for extensions like the other two
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leading browsers from Mozilla and Google but enough of that let's talk
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performance John was the one who put together this benchmarking setup for
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this video and I think he did a bang up job we used a core i7 5930k with 16 gigs
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of ddr4 RAM and a Samsung 850 Pro SSD
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and all tests were run on a fresh copy of Windows 1064 bit with all the latest
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versions of all browsers running vanilla without extensions to ensure a fair
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fight first up is browser Mark which analyzes both the performance and
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standards compliance of a given browser here Chrome and Opera remember it's
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Chrome based run away with the contest with an overall score of over 6,000 each
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both Edge and Internet Explorer 11 get crushed next is a variety of mostly
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JavaScript focused benchmarks with some twists uh Peacekeeper also looks at
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performance of a 2d game web expert looks at HTML 5 canvas performance and
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HTML 5 test as you can well imagine dials in on HTML 5 performance and this
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went pretty well overall with Edge only being badly beaten in speedometer and
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HTML 5 test and even pulling out victories in SunSpider and jet stream
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for our next test we wanted to take a look at RAM usage because while it's all
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fine and good to talk about performance on a six core machine with 16 gigs of
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six memory not everyone is running a configuration like that so at idle
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Internet Explorer 11 comes out on top with Edge coming in second place then
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under what I'd consider to be a fairly typical load with an HD YouTube video
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playing uh Twitter and Facebook open a long Wikipedia article loaded up
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somewhere else the Amazon homepage and CNN homepage Edge falls apart managing
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even worse performance than our second last finisher Chrome a browser that is
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well known for its RAM eating habits
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these days we're not all about synthetics around here though so in our
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testing we also threw in some real world stuff and John whipped out the
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high-speed camera to do some practical webpage loading tests Edge was put up
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against Chrome side by side on our 200 megabit guaranteed fiber line and the
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results were measured by analyzing the footage to see how long the pages took
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to load for YouTube videos Facebook and Amazon I think it's safe to say that the
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difference was fairly negligible to a normal person but for CNN Edge got
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beaten by nearly a second bummer so the
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conclusion here is pretty straightforward Edge isn't the fastest
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browser out there which no one not even Microsoft claimed it would be and it
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still struggles with some comp ability issues although that won't surprise you
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if you've read any of the user reviews out there on the net but the good news
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is that it is a big Leap Forward compared to Internet Explorer 11 which
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came in last in all but two of the benchmarks we ran
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so here's to Improvement Microsoft let's
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see if Edge can continue to improve compatibility enough in the next year or
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