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Futuremark gets into browser benchmarking with Peacekeeper
Futuremark's 3dMark has long been a favorite way of mine to perform near-crippling tests on freshly-built systems. One of their more recent projects is aimed at a slightly less intimidating foe than 3d gaming: web browser javascript benchmarking.
Called Peacekeeper, the new app makes a lot of sense for Futuremark. As one of the key brands in computer benchmarking, it's only logical that they would want in on comparative browser testing. In Internet Explorer, you'll be asked to install an ActiveX control - other browsers will run the test without any add-ins. Tests were patterned after real-world browsing using sites like YouTube, Facebook, GMail, and Meebo.
To see how your default browser scores, just point it to http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/. Once the test completes, your score will be displayed. To test another browser, just click the button and you'll be given a link to copy and paste.
Called Peacekeeper, the new app makes a lot of sense for Futuremark. As one of the key brands in computer benchmarking, it's only logical that they would want in on comparative browser testing. In Internet Explorer, you'll be asked to install an ActiveX control - other browsers will run the test without any add-ins. Tests were patterned after real-world browsing using sites like YouTube, Facebook, GMail, and Meebo.
To see how your default browser scores, just point it to http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/. Once the test completes, your score will be displayed. To test another browser, just click the button and you'll be given a link to copy and paste.
As with other Futuremark apps, you can also see how your results stack up to other system configurations - including the one currently owning the high score. The Intel Q9650-powered rig posted numbers about four times higher than those of my trusty notebook.
I sure wish Intel would make with the mobile quad cores already.
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rokubungi said 2:26PM on 4-20-2009
With Avast! and noscript running I get around 300 with firefox and 155 with IE7 but I never use IE anymore because it doesn't have noscript. browsing without noscript nowadays is not very wise with all the drive by virii downloads and other crap out there now.
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Fred said 3:01PM on 4-20-2009
Chrome destroyed the other browsers I tested (Opera, FF, IE8), doubling the next lowest score (ff).
Nice to be able to see the performance via a number, of the browsers that are there to choose from, and see it on your system. Next, I'm going to run it on my Acer Aspire One.
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JJ said 5:43PM on 4-20-2009
301 in FF 3.0.8
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ BE
Windows Vista 64-bit
4096 MB RAM
A bunch of plugins on it.
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Deke said 5:39PM on 4-21-2009
Hrm, how did they get Chrome 2.0.175.0? I'm on dev channel and its still telling me that 2.0.174.0 is the latest still.
Anyone else got 175 yet?
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Lee Mathews said 5:48PM on 4-21-2009
Go straight to the nightlies: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/
;)
Chris Deke said 6:04PM on 4-21-2009
That's not Chrome though, thats Chromium. Not the same thing, to be technical.
If Futuremark are using nightlies then they really should be stating that, not calling it "Google Chrome". I would have thought that nightlies would often be slower as well, as they would tend to include debug code taken out of a release build..
Night Owl said 9:31AM on 4-23-2009
Firefox 3.0.8 gave me 327 to 357. My laptop has a P8400 Core2 Duo @ 2.26 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB 5400 RPM HDD, an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT with 512 MB RAM at 1920 x 1080, running Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit.
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