Futuremark released a summary of the last two years of “Peacekeeper” Browser Benchmarking including scores for current browsers:
Chrome 15.0.874.121 – Peacekeeper score 4720
Opera 11.52 – score 4318
Firefox 8.0.1 – score 2554
Internet Explorer 9.0 – score 2471
Safari 5.0.5 – score 1752
Browsers ranked by performance on a 15” MacBook Pro (early 2011) with an Intel Core i7-2720QM processor (higher scores are better)
Chrome 15.0.874.121 – Peacekeeper score 3660
Opera 11.52 – score 2747
Firefox 8.0.1 – score 2033
Safari 5.0.5 – score 1861
Wait – Safari is 2 to 2.7 times slower than Chrome? Let’s have a look at the version numbers.
Chrome 15.0.874.121 released on Nov. 16th 2011 and is the latest release.
Safari 5.0.5 was released on April 14th 2011, Safari 5.0 uses the same engine and was released on June 7th 2010. Version 5.1.2 from November 29th is the latest release, with Safari 5.1.1 from October 12th 2011 being the last version to introduce performance improvements.
Opera and Firefox were also tested with their latest versions.
Running the new Peacekeeper test with a current version paints a different picture:
Peacekeeper results
Makes me wonder why Futuremark would release such bogus data? Probably to “keep the peace” …
