The benchmark also doesn’t tell us anything about battery usage. However, I have extensions and a whole slew of cookies on both of these browsers, which can skew the results - as mentioned, real-world usage is always going to be different from best-case scenario benchmarks. When recreating the results on my 2020 M1 MacBook Pro comparing the latest Chrome Canary with the current stable version of Safari, I got both of them spewing out a score of about 300.

While you will definitely notice some improvements in real-world usage, your personal results may still vary depending on which websites you visit, what other programs you’re running on your Mac, and what hardware you actually use - it would seem likely that all the tests are run on state-of-the-art M1 MacBooks.

Keep in mind that these results are based on Apple’s own Speedometer 2.0 benchmark. This time around, the browser managed to score over 360 points on Apple’s Speedometer benchmark, which is an impressive improvement over the 300 points it managed to hit earlier this year. In contrast to the initial milestone in March 2022, Google hasn’t shared too many details on how it has achieved the impressive new speed bump just three months after stealing Safari’s crown as the fastest browser on the Mac.

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