Mobile Safari in iOS 5 Brings the Fastest HTML5 Performance
Back in March Apple updated Mobile Safari with improvements to its Nitro engine, allowing for increased performance. Around this time in April, Microsoft’s demo of their Phone 7 Mango demo was pitted against an iPhone (pre-Nitro) and Android browser in Microsoft’s own HTML5 speed test. 9to5Mac points out Mobile Safari scored 2 FPS versus Microsoft’s 26 FPS, but also the iPhone was rendering more pixels with its 640×960 Retina Display, causing it to lose badly. Here’s the video via winrumors:
Fast forward to Mobile Safari in iOS 5, which now appears to be supercharged because its HTML5 scores in that same Microsoft-designed test are now even better than IE 9 Mobile. Mobile Safari in iOS 5 can achieve frames per second scores of 31.

Here’s a video showing the performance of Mobile Safari in iOS 5 versus iOS 4.3:
Apple definitely added a HTML5 performance boost in Mobile Safari in iOS 5. You can try the test out yourself here. What score did you get?
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I just got 60 fps on my iPad 2. Pretty impressed.
Im getting 1fps on my 3GS
Im getting 1fps on my 3GS
Im getting 1fps on my 3GS
I got 1 fps iphone4 ios4.3?????
You did read the article right? 🙂 that’s what is suppose to happen with 4.3 why are you surprised?
You did read the article right? 🙂 that’s what is suppose to happen with 4.3 why are you surprised?
I got 27 fps with my iPhone 4 running iOS 5 beta.
Edit: on 3G network.
I got 27 fps with my iPhone 4 running iOS 5 beta.
Edit: on 3G network.
I got 60 FPSÂ
Phone: Samsung Nexus S
OS Android 2.3.4
Browser: Opera Mini 6.0.24556Â
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I was at 2 fps on 4.3 then it dropped to 1.
I also tapped on Hamster Dance. Don’t so this at work. It’s loud haha.
I was at 2 fps on 4.3 then it dropped to 1.
I also tapped on Hamster Dance. Don’t so this at work. It’s loud haha.
which iOS
which iOS
which iOS
which iOS
When i do it on my computer with google chrome it goes so fast and gets like 37 fps and with safari and fire fox i didnt wait it took to long it was slow and the iphone was just really slow lol
When i do it on my computer with google chrome it goes so fast and gets like 37 fps and with safari and fire fox i didnt wait it took to long it was slow and the iphone was just really slow lol
my firefox 4 only gets 40 fps…
my firefox 4 only gets 40 fps…