Firefox vs. Chrome Browser Performance On Intel Ice Lake + Power/Memory Usage Tests

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 16 November 2019 at 10:05 AM EST. Page 5 of 7. 27 Comments.

JetStream had a narrow lead with Chrome on this Intel Ice Lake laptop.

Chrome was spiking much higher with its memory usage in this particular benchmark.

Chrome also was consuming about a half-Watt more on average than Firefox for this JavaScript benchmark.

With the HTML5 CanvasMark test, WebRender wasn't helping out and Chrome remained measurably faster than Firefox.

Chrome was leading to lower memory consumption than Firefox in this benchmark.

But Chrome was now leading to higher power consumption on this Dell XPS Ice Lake laptop.