For online testing, its actual value is controversial. On the one hand, surfing the Internet is the most commonly used operation by Mac users, but on the other hand, compared with the bandwidth of the access network and the connection speed on the server side, the speed difference of the browser itself is not particularly obvious. And user bandwidth, server speed and browser are 3 important factors.
According to David Heinemeier Hanson, the M2MacBookThe Air scored 400 in Speedomter 2.0, 33% faster than the M1 chip and faster than the 4.2GHz i7IntelMac is 2.5 times faster. David Heinemeier Hanson decided to test it himself, using three MacBook Pro models with M1, M1 Pro and M2 chips to test Safari, Safari Technology Preview and Chrome.
According to the test results,
● Different chips
According to the latest test results of Safari 15.6, the Speedomter 2.0 running score of the M2 chip is 18% higher than that of the M1 chip, which is only half of the test result of David Heinemeier Hanson.
MacWorld test results are the average of 3 results. The M2 chip scored 401 points, one of which scored 408 points. In addition, the test results also show that the M2’s running score is 11% higher than that of the M1 Pro.
● Different browsers
However, in the Chrome 104 browser test, the M1 and M1 Pro scored almost identically, at 308 and 309, respectively, while the M2 topped out at 339. There is a big gap between the M2’s test results on Chrome and Safari. As Macworld’s Roman Loyola said, we must remember that Speedometer is a tool designed by Apple, so Safari may be optimized for the browsing activity that the tool simulates.
It just means that the company has its own ideas and data on the most-used browsing features, it designed Safari to optimize for those activities, and the Speedometer to measure them.
Finally, the Safari Technology Preview. This is the latest public beta of the next version of the browser, with an average score of 420 and a high of 425.
