Opera 11 alpha benchmarking results

October 22, 2010 · by Espen André Øverdahl

We ran a Peacekeeper benchmarking test using Opera 11 alpha, and the result is pretty nice. We used the following setup:

Windows 7 32-bit
Intel Core2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33 GHz
4 GB RAM

This is the result we got when compared to other browsers. Please note that variations will occur depending on setups and background processes.

* Peacekeeper lists IE9 as IE7 for some reason. The test was done with IE9!

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₣ıđø Ðıđø™Friday, October 22, 2010 10:29:21 AM
Great

finally first comment (before Tamil )

I'm kidding bro
thobiFriday, October 22, 2010 10:29:44 AM
nice
TamilFriday, October 22, 2010 10:31:45 AM
MorphdreamerFriday, October 22, 2010 10:31:51 AM
Still the best
₣ıđø Ðıđø™Friday, October 22, 2010 10:32:20 AM
I was waiting extensions for a long time
thanks Opera
Artur „Jurgi” JurgawkaFriday, October 22, 2010 10:33:49 AM
Originally posted by faridfox:

finally first comment (before Tamil )

You are cheating! You throwed him a banana and took adventage of the moment!
OPERATORFriday, October 22, 2010 10:35:55 AM
Opera no:1 everywhere everytime......
TamilFriday, October 22, 2010 10:37:27 AM
Originally posted by Jurgi:

You throwed him a banana and took adventage of the moment!
http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL.gif -
camilouFriday, October 22, 2010 10:38:11 AM
I just hope extensions don't make it all unstable and buggy like they do with firefox.
Opera #1...at least for the moment. I have faith on you guys
Matt CoxFriday, October 22, 2010 10:47:24 AM
Old Opera logo makes me sad.
₣ıđø Ðıđø™Friday, October 22, 2010 10:51:05 AM
Originally posted by Jurgi:

You are cheating! You throwed him a banana and took adventage of the moment!

Yes I did http://smiles.kolobok.us/icq/blush.gif -
batsihorFriday, October 22, 2010 11:06:02 AM
You should change main menu view because it's very boring.
Mathieu 'p01' HENRIFriday, October 22, 2010 11:31:45 AM
batsihor: mmh, being specific would help make the main menu less boring. I'm not even sure which menu you are talking about. Anyways, https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/ is the way to go to file a bug/request
Z1-AV69Friday, October 22, 2010 11:44:27 AM
Do you have some data about the impact of installed extensions on peacekeeper performance? After initially believing they wouldn't hit hard, I had to correct myself after some more tests. I would now say that installing 3 extensions (Opera Configurator, Fastest Tube and Video Fullscreen) leads to a loss of more than 10% peacekeeper score. Can anyone confirm?
NecromanFriday, October 22, 2010 12:08:31 PM
Opera 11 is also fastest in FF Kraken test, Webkit SunSpider test and has best results across browsers in Sputnik Javascript conformace test
Only in html5test.com it has pretty low score
janek2012Friday, October 22, 2010 12:45:32 PM
@Z1-AV69, Confirmed:

All extensions disabled: 10268 points
3 extensions enabled: 8489 points
(VideoFullscreen, Edit the Page, FastestTube)

AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.6GHz
Gigabyte GTX 470 @ 700/1400/3348 MHz
2x2 GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM
Windows 7 x64

So, in my case it's almost 1800 points. It's ~18% decrease.
AmundFriday, October 22, 2010 12:50:39 PM
Win7 32-bit?
Does anyone actually run that version
It seems most new PC's today sells with Win7 x64 installed.
AuxFriday, October 22, 2010 12:59:52 PM
That's not true for my system. Opera 11 lags behind latest Chrome 7.
AmaZingerFriday, October 22, 2010 2:01:40 PM
For what this tests? They show nothing. It's better to look at FPS in html5-applications.
SuntanaFriday, October 22, 2010 2:26:28 PM
There is something seriously wrong with that test.
Yep! The problem is that in this era of Opera 11 ...
You have the OLD style Opera logo up there.
Charles SchlossFriday, October 22, 2010 2:57:32 PM
What is the url for that peacekeeper test, of the one from the test Opera did?
AvolaFriday, October 22, 2010 3:20:31 PM
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=peacekeeper
Z1-AV69Friday, October 22, 2010 3:27:20 PM
Originally posted by janek2012:

All extensions disabled: 10268 points
3 extensions enabled: 8489 points
(VideoFullscreen, Edit the Page, FastestTube)

It must be one of those extensions. With only "Fast Search" and "open-in-background-with-long-press", I see no performance loss at all. Makes me happy.
StelianFriday, October 22, 2010 5:16:44 PM
My result when the extensions are turned off - Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit; Intel Core 2 CPU T7200 2.00 GHz; RAM 1.5GB
(click picture)
http://files.myopera.com/LZ2SDC/files/Opera%2011%20Peacekeeper.png -

When I turn all extensions (Opera Configorator, Fastest Tube, Translate, Mouse trail, Edit the Page, VideoFullscreen)
the result is: 4780 points.

It would be nice to Manage Extension, have buttons or option "Disable All" and "Uninstall All"
Stephen TurrellFriday, October 22, 2010 6:53:06 PM
My results show Opera has a big lead I downloaded the latest versions of Chrome Firefox & Safari today & IE 9 is also the latest version.
Opera 11.00 Alpha = 14664
Chrome 8.0.560.0 Canary = 12497
Safari WebKit r70091 = 7122
Firefox 4.0b6 beta = 6783
Firefox 4.0b8pre Minefield = 6163
Internet Explorer 9.0.7930.16406 = 3952

Safari result was suspect it ran the test that precedes the bouncing balls as a blank page until approx the last 2 seconds of that test

http://files.myopera.com/stve10/albums/5008562/Capture%20op11.JPG -
Charles SchlossFriday, October 22, 2010 9:51:55 PM
Originally posted by Avola:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=peacekeeper

I know of it, I am wonder the test url of Opera's test

Running Opera 11 Alpha in crossover via wine = http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=4Zb0
ChrisFriday, October 22, 2010 10:28:12 PM
Originally posted by Chas4:

I know of it, I am wonder the test url of Opera's test
You shouldn't share Peacekeeper URLs. Other people can overwrite your results if you do.
Charles SchlossFriday, October 22, 2010 11:00:42 PM
Originally posted by Slamdex:

You shouldn't share Peacekeeper URLs. Other people can overwrite your results if you do.

I have not herd of that
Stephen TurrellSaturday, October 23, 2010 3:01:26 AM
On the peacekeeper page that displays the results it lists the popular processors & fastest browsers.
Its showing a much older version for Opera than the other browsers Opera 10.10 and Opera 10.50 beta.
http://files.myopera.com/stve10/albums/5008562/PK%20fastest%20browsers.JPG -
If you click on the Statistics link the new page says

"Which is the fastest browser?

The tables and charts on these pages are compiled from thousands of Peacekeeper results from users all around the world. The figures are updated as new results come in. The table below shows how the five major browsers score in Peacekeeper. For each browser we show you the results from the current release and the latest beta build."
http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/browserStatistics.action

Opera is not going to attract many new users looking for a faster browser from that page
d4rkn1ghtSaturday, October 23, 2010 8:38:48 AM
AbandonShip?Saturday, October 23, 2010 11:32:51 PM
@ EspenAO (desktopteam)

Please add more info:
-> IE 9 is with permanent D2D hardware Acceleration!
-> Graphics-card? Graphics RAM?
-> Is Hardware Acceleration activated in Firefox 4 ?
-> Is Hardware Acceleration activated in Chrome 7 & 8 ?
-> Opera 11 without Hardware-Acceleration till now?

Thanks.
xeon0541Sunday, October 24, 2010 3:04:00 AM
opera 11 is slower than chrome 8

Chrome 8.0.550.0

7498
Opera 10.63

7085

Opera 11.00
6806

on core 2 e6750, nvidia geforce 460 768m edition on windows7
prd3Sunday, October 24, 2010 4:26:42 PM
Originally posted by xeon0541:

opera 11 is slower than chrome 8

WRONG. It's faster, as proved by the actual blog post. Your comment is useless.
Stephen TurrellMonday, October 25, 2010 1:13:11 AM
Originally posted by xeon0541:

opera 11 is slower than chrome 8
Perhaps you should have added on "my PC"
Originally posted by prd3:

Originally posted by xeon0541:

opera 11 is slower than chrome 8
WRONG. It's faster, as proved by the actual blog post. Your comment is useless.
It only proves that Opera is fastest on that PC "Windows 7 32-bit Intel Core2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33 GHz 4 GB RAM This is the result we got when compared to other browsers. Please note that variations will occur depending on setups and background processes."
Charles SchlossMonday, October 25, 2010 2:53:15 AM
Originally posted by stve10:

Please note that variations will occur depending on setups and background processes."

http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Yes.gif -
Bhikkhu PesalaWednesday, October 27, 2010 8:36:55 AM
Originally posted by prd3:

WRONG. It's faster, as proved by the actual blog post. Your comment is useless.

No, it depends on system specs, and other factors. All of your comments are useless because they are so one-sided that they have to be ignored.

My Peacekeeper results: One tab only, doing nothing else:

Opera 10.63 2641
Opera 11.00 2492

So, Opera 11.00 is slower on my system.
prd3Wednesday, October 27, 2010 12:46:01 PM
Originally posted by Pesala:

So, Opera 11.00 is slower on my system.

You are doing something wrong, then.
Charles SchlossWednesday, October 27, 2010 1:45:05 PM
Originally posted by prd3:

You are doing something wrong, then.

Did you forget its an Alpha, and I have done the test on machines with different specs and I get different results so "it depends on system specs, and other factors"
Stephen TurrellMonday, November 1, 2010 9:46:39 PM
Originally posted by prd3:

Originally posted by Pesala:

So, Opera 11.00 is slower on my system.
You are doing something wrong, then.
WRONG Presuming that you actually ran the Peacekeeper benchmark on Opera 10.63 2641 & Opera 11.00 2492 there are many factors that can give you a different score. The results can & mostly do vary on the same PC every time you run the benchmark. You ASSume that because your PC shows Opera 11 to be faster than Opera 10.63 then it will be the same for everyone regardless of the different Operating Systems , Hardware Configurations & Software they use on their PC. You http://files.myopera.com/stve10/albums/5008562/Assume.JPG - too much.
prd3Thursday, November 4, 2010 4:17:54 PM
Originally posted by Necroman:

Only in html5test.com it has pretty low score

That site is USELESS. It doesn't just test HTML5, doesn't test the whole spec, and the scores are completely retarded.
Ngọc SơnFriday, November 5, 2010 6:58:43 PM
Opera 11 startup very fast
ox03Monday, November 29, 2010 8:36:08 AM
The latest beta is smoking fast on Linux x64. Two max benches against Peacekeeper:
Browser: chromium 7.0.517.44 (ABS)
Processor: AMD X4 970 OC to 4.30 GHz
Memory: STT Project X WX200UB2G7 @ 1960 MHz 7-7-7-21-28 1T
Graphics: EVGA GTX 580 SC @ 910/4200
Additional: chromium profile run from tmpfs
CPU-NB Speed: 2940 MHz @ 1.45v

Browser: opera 11.00-1111
Processor: AMD X4 970 OC to 4.30 GHz
Memory: STT Project X WX200UB2G7 @ 1960 MHz 7-7-7-21-28 1T
Graphics: EVGA GTX 580 SC @ 910/4200
Additional: opera run from tmpfs
CPU-NB Speed: 2940 MHz @ 1.45v
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