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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 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.

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.

Nice. But the the title "moar better graphics" is not more friendly or personal, it's just dumb.

I blame the internet.

And it's signed: Posted by John "More CPU in Your GPU" Bauman and Brian "FPS" Salomon

If Transgaming sounds familiar: their flagship product is Cider, a proprietary fork of Wine aimed at running Windows apps on Mac OS (just before Wine switched from a MIT license to the LGPL).

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.

http://www.howfastismypc.com

17: 2 out of 10

18: 10 out of 10

IE9: 4 out of 10

:) M$ guys have been pushing this demo everywhere they go for IE9 vs every other browser. Only because they were the first to market with GPU acceleration. M$ your doing it wrong.

It seems like they fixed a very annoying bug in their font rendering on Windows. First thing I checked:

http://imgur.com/a/UXEPg

edit: on a closer look Firefox still renders text better.

Hmmm... I'm getting some weird artifacts in the new version on my 2010 iMac with this little canvas toy: http://www.apejet.org/aaron/code/sparks/

I'm stuck on XP laptop for work and text now looks like crap. Can't get any response from the Chrome team.

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