Hello friends! I recently did an intensive benchmark using Futuremark’s great browser benchmarking tool, Peacekeeper. Anyone can simply go to the Peacekeeper website and run a benchmark that only takes about 15-20 minutes. Anyway, here is a benchmark I did on the same exact machine. (Quad-Core Xeon, 12GB RAM, Quadro Graphics, Latest Flash/Java, Windows 7 64-Bit)
As you can see, Opera 11 clearly wins. After you run a benchmark, it actually tells you who had the highest score so far… here is a screenshot of that;
And finally, here are the average results that are on the website for all of the mainstream browsers. (Note: Opera 11 is not included when its been out for over a month now! (non-beta))
So there you have it.
My final thoughts are that Opera 11 is clearly in the lead right now, but in terms of functionality, features and compatibility, it is not in the lead at all. I still prefer Firefox and and I very much looking forward to FF 4.0. I do have Opera 11 and Chrome on my systems, but I use them only for browsing the news or looking up something in Google really quick. The Xmarks utility is a must for me and is not yet compatible with Opera 11, so until then, I cant even consider it as my main browser.
What are your thoughts?
