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zuvi

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Google Chrome vs Chromium Performance

I did a performance test with https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.1/.

They have the same GPU config.

Google Chrome: 220 ± 7.9
Chromium: 195 ± 5.1

Why is Google Chrome faster than Chromium? Can anyone test if it is the same on their machine?

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5825U with Radeon Graphics (16) @ 2.000GHz
GPU: AMD ATI 04:00.0 Barcelo

Last edited by zuvi (2023-03-11 11:02:49)

Psykorgasm

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Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 178

Re: Google Chrome vs Chromium Performance

I would imagine it's because of what optimizations they are built with.

I use Windows on the desktop and use a build of ungoogled-chromium that's built with PGO, LTO and AVX2. Using the benchmarks on https://browserbench.org/ it's faster than Chrome, a little faster than Edge and miles faster than regular Chromium builds.

Obviously if you want the best performance you would build it with PGO/LTO and native CPU flags but the build process is so huge and time consuming it's not worth it IMO, I stopped doing my own native builds of Chromium over 5 years ago.

Last edited by Psykorgasm (2023-03-11 11:25:46)