The chart below shows the result of Mandelbrot calculation for 21 presets from the Mandelbrot Explorer demo run in IE10, Chrome 23, and Firefox 16, showing IE10 on average is over twice as fast as Chrome and about 20% faster than Firefox. Each calculation was run on identical hardware, a single Samsung Series 9 laptop with an Intel® Core™ i5-2537M CPU @ 1.40 Ghz with 4GB of memory running 64-bit Windows 7.
| IE10 on Windows 7 | Chrome 23.0.1271.64 m | Firefox 16.0.2 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preset | Iterations | Seconds | Iterations/Sec | Seconds | Iterations/Sec | Seconds | Iterations/Sec |
| Default | 51,777,896 | 4.80 | 10,787,062 | 14.14 | 3,661,803 | 5.92 | 8,746,266 |
| Black Spiral | 87,385,503 | 9.97 | 8,764,845 | 29.25 | 2,987,539 | 10.82 | 8,076,294 |
| Blatweasel | 56,492,634 | 7.52 | 7,512,318 | 19.76 | 2,858,939 | 7.97 | 7,088,160 |
| Boomerang | 60,433,229 | 8.16 | 7,406,033 | 20.99 | 2,879,144 | 9.83 | 6,147,836 |
| Cyclops | 69,179,802 | 9.46 | 7,312,875 | 22.04 | 3,138,829 | 12.01 | 5,760,183 |
| Diamond Fur | 56,001,655 | 7.37 | 7,598,596 | 17.45 | 3,209,264 | 8.94 | 6,264,167 |
| Feather Ball | 84,924,532 | 10.55 | 8,049,719 | 28.50 | 2,979,808 | 11.76 | 7,221,474 |
| Fern Curl | 221,702,566 | 27.23 | 8,141,850 | 69.88 | 3,172,618 | 32.3 | 6,863,857 |
| Four Star | 47,793,470 | 6.38 | 7,491,139 | 16.09 | 2,970,383 | 6.48 | 7,375,535 |
| Galactic Spin | 74,014,567 | 9.91 | 7,468,675 | 25.36 | 2,918,555 | 10.94 | 6,765,500 |
| Lace | 16,082,383 | 2.18 | 7,377,240 | 5.75 | 2,796,936 | 2.55 | 6,306,817 |
| Mandel Swirl | 36,189,809 | 4.50 | 8,042,180 | 9.92 | 3,648,166 | 5.42 | 6,677,087 |
| North Star | 51,183,696 | 6.52 | 7,850,260 | 15.36 | 3,332,272 | 7.83 | 6,536,870 |
| Round Square | 35,072,198 | 3.13 | 11,205,175 | 12 | 2,922,683 | 5.32 | 6,592,518 |
| Sparkler | 48,195,479 | 4.77 | 10,103,874 | 14.88 | 3,238,943 | 6.72 | 7,171,946 |
| Spiderweb | 24,817,930 | 2.36 | 10,516,072 | 7.79 | 3,185,870 | 3.63 | 6,836,895 |
| Star Cluster | 58,889,259 | 6.48 | 9,087,849 | 20.17 | 2,919,646 | 8.78 | 6,707,205 |
| Straight and Narrow | 43,172,602 | 5.68 | 7,600,810 | 14.37 | 3,004,356 | 6.43 | 6,714,246 |
| Hair Diamond | 59,989,718 | 7.22 | 8,308,825 | 19.94 | 3,008,511 | 9.23 | 6,499,428 |
| Swirly Bob | 36,595,932 | 4.61 | 7,938,380 | 9.12 | 4,012,712 | 5.14 | 7,119,831 |
| Twiggy | 50,756,445 | 6.37 | 7,968,045 | 17.93 | 2,830,811 | 7.37 | 6,886,899 |