Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview Investigated

Yesterday we told you about how Internet Explorer 9 is becoming GPU aware, and using it to offload some of the rendering work. Today, AnandTech has posted a review on the Internet Explorer 9 Preview. Not everything is perfect, nor would I expect it to be, since it is a preview. However, just because it turns in the highest performance in one test where its image quality is inferior, tells me that the test is not a valid indicator of real world performance, yet. Given some time, Internet Explorer 9 may be very good. Until then, I will stick to Firefox.

Finally, IE 9 Platform Preview gives the highest performance yet, at around 58-60 FPS. At the same time however, image quality sits somewhere between Firefox 3.6 and Safari/Chrome/IE 8. It’s obvious that there’s some downsampling here that isn’t 100% quality-friendly, however, there’s significantly less blocking. Detail is still a bit strange inside the black Safari logo.

via IT @ AnandTech: Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview: Investigated.

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Paul Adams leads an award-winning, diverse contractor team that runs a federal high performance computing facility where he has worked for 17 years. He loves getting his hands on the latest visualization and computer hardware, astronomy, aerospace engineering, working with the poor, and ringing cowbells.