Safari 4 on Windows benchmarked – faster than Chrome?
Yes, v4.0! This is pretty strange, because I blogged few days ago about Safari 3 on Windows. Apple probably timed Safari 4 release with release of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Don’t know what to say. Browser GUI looks looks remarkably like the one in Chrome (notice the new page and gear icons to the right). They removed loading progress from address bar which makes me sad but they added Windows standard font smoothing which now makes surfing in Safari more bearable. There is not no-smoothing option however.
CNET benchmarked Safari 4 and they say it’s 42x faster than IE 7 and 3.5x faster than Firefox 3. Since I am hard nut and I don’t believe CNET because I think Apple paid for those benchmarks, I used Futuremark’s Peacekeeper browser benchmark to do my own benchmarking. Check out results for your self (higher values are better), no need to say how surprised I am:
| # | browser | Peacekeeper score |
| 1. | Safari 4 | 2956 |
| 2. | Chrome 2.0.172.28 | 2624 |
| 3. | FireFox 3.0.10 (-safe-mode) | 1122 |
| 4. | FireFox 3.0.10 (packed with extensions) | 955 |
| 5. | Internet Explorer 8 | 732 |
I did benchmarking on my laptop running Vista w/ Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T8100 and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS.
3 thoughts on “Safari 4 on Windows benchmarked – faster than Chrome?”
June 9, 2009 at 14:40
Wow, very strange. Will try out.
September 25, 2009 at 16:41
i like the design of Safari 4 but i think it uses more resources compared to Opera.
October 13, 2009 at 15:15
i really love the layout of Safari 4. the graphics of this browser looks much better than firefox.