Comment on "HTML5" versus Flash: Animation BenchmarkingComments−barrkel16yGoing with the 500 particles / shadows on, link, I get results like these on Firefox 3.6.2 on Windows 7: 666 Flash 3.5 SVG (but I did not see shadows) Actual rate for SVG looked more like 0.2 FPS 13 Canvas I wonder if the Flash is hardware accelerated? I have a beefy graphics card, an AMD 5870.For Chrome, the results are quite different: 110 Flash 43 SVG (still no shadows) 14 Canvas With the unadorned links: 17 HTML/Chrome 14 HTML/Firefox (between 25 and 14, GC? pauses) 85 Canvas/Chrome 40 Canvas/Firefox 40 SVG/Chrome 3 SVG/Firefox (again, looked more like 0.2) 100 Flash/Chrome 666 Flash/Firefox−pbhjpbhj16yAthlon1.1GHz with 768MB running Kubuntu:FF+html: 2.5; +canvas: 4; +svg: 1; +flash: 15fps−gb16yFlash does have hardware acceleration support, but it wouldn't be helping in this situation. It actually makes things slower in most cases apart from video playback.
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Going with the 500 particles / shadows on, link, I get results like these on Firefox 3.6.2 on Windows 7:
I wonder if the Flash is hardware accelerated? I have a beefy graphics card, an AMD 5870.For Chrome, the results are quite different:
With the unadorned links:Athlon1.1GHz with 768MB running Kubuntu:
FF+html: 2.5; +canvas: 4; +svg: 1; +flash: 15fps
Flash does have hardware acceleration support, but it wouldn't be helping in this situation. It actually makes things slower in most cases apart from video playback.