For those that are not familiar with why Apple devices show higher performance and why Android device manufacturers appear to be playing catch-up here is a nice video with a little bit of history:
For point of reference I ran some of the benchmarks on my OnePlus 2 (ONE A2003) an August 2015 Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 phone - the same processor as the Nexus 6P mentioned above.
This was a new phone when this thread was started back in 2015, now updated the phone running on a custom Lineage OS build (Android 7.1.2). In a months time a replacement phone will come and I’ll reset the device to whatever the latest manufacturer OS is and run these numbers again.
| Browser version | “render complex list”, 2.11 | Speedometer |
|---|---|---|
| Chrome 61 (Stable) | 152.27ms | 27.2 (±2.4) |
| Chrome 62 (Beta) | 179.04ms | 25.4 (±1.4) |
| Chrome 63 (Canary) | 190.00ms | 23.7 (±1.7) |
Allowing the phone to “cool” between benchmark runs - these are pretty repeatable numbers.
Hopefully this doesn’t indicate that Chrome is slipping backwards any when Chrome 63 finally reaches the general public.