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[SchumannFrequency]

I use the following hardware: Intel i3-3240 + 4GB RAM @1600Mhz DDR3 single channel + NVIDIA GTX 650 1GB + EVO 850 500GB

It may seem slow but it's an 11 year old CPU that cost $100 back then. I can also overclock this CPU to score around 105.
You can compare my cheap and old hardware with the price of an Apple MacBook Pro "Core i7" 3.5 (Mid 2017) which apparently scores the same:
A Pixel 7 that is new and also quite pricey apparently doesn't score much higher than my 11 year old dual core CPU either.

I did this benchmark from a slow USB 2.0 stick on which I permanently installed MX Linux but that normally has no effect on the score because the browser is loaded in RAM.

Speedometer 2.0 benchmark

 

[AMF]

See system Specs

 

[GreiverBlade]

well...

Ryzen R5 3600 + RX 6700 XT GDDR6 12gb + 16gb DDR4 3000 dual channel + 870 EVO 250gb

i will test it on my HTPC rig ... later

a moment later

i7-3770 + GT730 2gb DDR3(Fermi ) + 8gb DDR3 1600 single channel + HDD 5600RPM from Seagate.

 

[SchumannFrequency]

My CPU is from the year 2012, when the Intel E5-2660 was also on the market for a few months. I would like to test this E5-2660.

It should perhaps be able to reach more than 200 with an overclock and ddr3 dual channel RAM @ 2100Mhz.

If you have high end hardware that is 11 years old, your browser will normally still perform fast in 2023. Or at least with an efficient operating system.

 

[GreiverBlade]

My CPU is from the year 2012, .

Q2'12 for my HTPC

 

[SchumannFrequency]

Q2'12 for my HTPC

What hardware does that HTPC have, is it the i7-3770 you listed in your specs?

A few years ago, the high-end CPUs didn't score that much higher than what my super-cheap CPU scores now:

https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph17267/128194.png

 

[GreiverBlade]

What hardware does that HTPC have, is it the i7-3770 you listed in your specs?

yep it's my SFFHTPCARGH!(tm) rig

oohhhh! my R5 3600 is scoring near a 12900K in that bench???

 

[SchumannFrequency]

yep it's my SFFHTPCARGH!(tm) rig

oohhhh! my R5 3600 is scoring near a 12900K in that bench???

It is fast as the 12900K was back then in that particular browser they used.
Browsers have gotten faster over the years. A 12900K is now going to score higher than many years ago.

It is still useful to know that a 12900K was not really faster than your CPU at the time.

In 2023, passively cooled hardware is still being sold that scores below 80 in Speedometer, which is very bad for stuff that is being sold now. Worse than my 11 year old cheap hardware in 2023. Here are some examples: https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph17488/BrowserBench_bbench_smeter.png

 

[P4-630]

Ok.

 

[Muaadib]

R5 5600, 16GB DDR4 3800, Crucial MX 500GB

 

[Psychoholic]

7950X -- Tons of crap running in the background but probably does not matter

 

[SchumannFrequency]

My result is the worst of all we've seen so far.

There used to be several expensive CPUs that scored lower than my result of 94.5

Selenium Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.org

openbenchmarking.org

Most of the benchmarks listed here are dated, but what we see is that the following CPUs once scored lower than what my i3-3240 scores today:
i7-4960X, E5-2687W v3, i7-5960X, E5-1680 v3, i7-9750H, Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core, Intel Core i5-4670, Intel Core i5-8265U

My result is not really bad if you know that very nice CPUs from the past once scored worse.

 

[Blaeza]

No tabs open at all...

 

[lemonadesoda]

I've got a crashed Chromium instance consuming about 10-20% CPU. In the snapshot you can see 13% CPU and 88% memory on idle. I'll do a rerun in a couple of days once I've sorted it out and done a reboot

 

[crlogic]

iPhone 14 Pro Max

Ryzen 7 4700U got 97.1

 

[Canned Noodles]

Iphone 14 pro on safari with no tabs open. I tried it on Microsoft edge too and the result was 298

 

[SchumannFrequency]

Iphone 14 pro on safari with no tabs open. I tried it on Microsoft edge too and the result was 298

A new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra only achieves 143 runs/min so this is unlikely what Apple is doing here. They achieve similar results in this benchmark as desktop CPUs that can draw 219 W of power.
It is not only in Speedometer, also in Kraken 1.1 the iPhone 14 scores similar to an i9 12900K.

Android uses a monolithic kernel and iOS has a hybrid kernel (hybrid should be slower). But iOS has technology based on FreeBSD. I also see on FreeBSD that Chromium scores 14% higher than on MX Linux, although the Chromium project does not accept patching for FreeBSD. This forces the FreeBSD team to maintain thousands of patches for Chromium. Suppose the Chromium project were to accept patches for FreeBSD then Chromium might also be over 30% faster on FreeBSD than on Linux.

Someone I know has an iPhone 13 with Safari and I can beat Safari on this device with my old i3-3240 and FreeBSD, but only in a limited number of benchmarks, namely the following:
Maze Solver CSS by using Chromium
Chalkboard HTML by using Firefox
Robohornet Pro by using Firefox

But overall, the iPhone 13 scores very strongly with Safari. It is a combination of hardware and optimized operating system. And the browser engine also has an impact. The WebKit engine for the last 5 years has always been faster than the Blink engine that Microsoft and Google continue to cling to. I think Microsoft and Google are allowed to use a WebKit engine from Apple because it's open source. But they probably don't want it because it's so closely associated with Apple.

 

[SchumannFrequency]

It is not that easy to score a result of 100 in Speedometer 2.0 with this Intel i3-3240 dual core.

Anyway, today's most powerful CPUs aren't 4 times faster

The 7950x is only 3.3 times faster.

 

[SchumannFrequency]

iPhone 12 mini & Safari

 

[agent_x007]

It's browser based, so I bet browser plays a role.
I tested my 6950X 4,26GHz + RX 570 8GB (Firefox + Opera browser with music playing in the background)


Just FYI : This test doesn't load modern CPUs enough for Windows to take it into Turbo mode.
Here's result after I enabled high perf. power plan and just stopped background music (everything else is the same) :


I wonder how it reacts to different browser window resolution/zoom levels...

 

[Lucas_]

my m2 MacBook Pro

 

[SchumannFrequency]

mageia + Brave v1.50.125 (Apr 20, 2023) (Linux Only)
Chrome usually scores 3% higher than Brave in this benchmark, but I don't feel like installing Chrome since I would never use it.
I never thought of mageia as a high performance distro but in browser benchmarks it usually performs similar to Clear Linux and MX Linux.
It's not a bad result for the most user-friendly Linux distro.

 

[SchumannFrequency]

 

[SchumannFrequency]

iPhone 13 + Safari 16.4 + WebKit 604.1

 

[SchumannFrequency]

Software: Void Linux, XFCE and Brave browser
Hardware: Intel i3 M370 (Q3 2010) It is a MEDION laptop from Aldi that has very poor cooling capacity.

Many Android flagships released 4 years ago (or older than 4 years) don't achieve this kind of performance.
This 13-year-old and super-cheap laptop is still perfectly usable for smooth browsing.