A Quick Benchmark Of Mozilla Firefox With WebRender Beta vs. Chrome

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Quick Benchmark Of Mozilla Firefox With WebRender Beta vs. Chrome

Now that WebRender has reached beta within Firefox Nightly, I decided to run some fresh web-browser benchmarks to see how this GPU-accelerated web rendering is working out for Firefox and how it compares to that of Google Chrome in some popular browser benchmarks.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27032

[NiLSPACE]

Apparently they are first focussing on stability before they try to get WebRender to actually be much faster than the previous renderer.

[NiLSPACE]

... while testing an AMD Radeon RX 580 and ...

Shouldn't that be the RX Vega 64?

[Michael]

Shouldn't that be the RX Vega 64?

Yep thanks, typo... Too much work going on this weekend, but anyhow the system table and graphs are always correct.

[pal666]

i'm not shocked, i know firefox is the slowest browser

[Weasel]

i'm not shocked, i know firefox is the slowest browser

Of course, because of Rust.

[NiLSPACE]

I got a Motionmark score of 440.44 on my AMD 2600X + RX 580 which seems way less powerful than the 9900K and Vega 64/2070 you used. I run the benchmark on Windows 10, perhaps WebRender is more optimized on that. Any chance you could try this on Windows as well?

[Anvil]

i still cant see Webrender being Default untill Firefox67 at the latest.

[luben]

Accidentally I run the MotionMark benchmark today with Firefox 64beta + MOZ_WEBRENDER=1 on my laptop with integrated intel GPU - Chrome-72 is twice faster but it consumes 2 cores fully, Firefox consumes just one core.

[eydee]

In a real life scenario, the difference is a page loading in 0.1 or 0.2 seconds. Not really something a human being can perceive. It's the same crap as operating systems competing on boot time. Your OS booting in 6 or 7 seconds changes absolutely nothing in your life.