Firefox 72 vs. Chrome 80 Browser Performance On Ubuntu Linux With AMD Ryzen

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 6 February 2020 at 11:47 AM EST. Page 1 of 5. 33 Comments.

Given this week's release of Google Chrome 80, here are fresh benchmarks of Chrome 80 against Firefox 72 on Linux plus also a run with Firefox's WebRender option being enabled. This round of tests was under an Ubuntu 20.04 snapshot with AMD Ryzen processor and AMD Radeon VII graphics.

For those wondering how the Chrome versus Firefox performance is standing today on the Linux desktop, these are the very latest numbers plus a secondary run with MOZ_WEBRENDER=1 for activating WebRender in the graphics/DOM relevant tests.

Firefox 72 vs. Chrome 80 Linux benchmarks

Via the Phoronix Test Suite various popular browser benchmarks were run via Selenium/WebDriver automation.

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