Kaby Lake Core i7-7500U Versus Skylake Core i7-6500U on Dell XPS 13

Web JavaScript & HTML5 Benchmarks

Mozilla Kraken 1.1: link

Kraken is a JavaScript performance benchmark created by Mozilla that measures the speed of several different test cases extracted from real-world applications and libraries. Kraken uses a test harness based on the SunSpider benchmark. Results are reported in milliseconds (lower is better).

Google Octane 2.0: link

Octane 2.0 is a benchmark created by Google that measures a JavaScript engines performance by running a suite of tests that is supposed to be representative of todays complex and demanding web applications. Octanes goal is to measure the performance of JavaScript code found in large, real-world web applications, running on modern mobile and desktop browsers. The latest Octane 2.0 benchmark includes four new tests to measure new aspects of JavaScript performance, including garbage collection / compiler latency and asm.js-style JavaScript performance.

JetStream 1.1: link

JetStream combines a variety of JavaScript benchmarks, covering a variety of advanced workloads and programming techniques, and reports a single score that balances them using geometric mean. JetStream includes benchmarks from the SunSpider 1.0.2 and Octane 2 JavaScript benchmark suites. It also includes benchmarks from the LLVM compiler open source project, compiled to JavaScript using Emscripten 1.13. It also includes a benchmark based on the Apache Harmony open source project’s HashMap and a port of the CDx benchmark, hand-translated to JavaScript.

WebXPRT 2015: link

WebXPRT 2015 uses scenarios created to mirror the tasks you do every day to compare the performance of almost any Web-enabled device. It contains six HTML5- and JavaScript-based workloads: Photo Enhancement, Organize Album, Stock Option Pricing, Local Notes, Sales Graphs, and Explore DNA Sequencing.

Web JavaScript & HTML5 Benchmarks Results Summary: The Dell XPS 13 9360 with the Intel Core i7-7500U was between 9.8% to 18.7% faster than the Dell XPS 13 9350 with the Intel Core i7-6500U processor, which is pretty amazing! The Intel Core i7-7500U was 9.8% faster in WebXPRT, 12.4% faster in Kraken, 16.6% faster in JetStream and an impressive 18.7% faster in Octane. When it comes to online browsing it is clear that Kaby Lake is superior and should provide a noticeable performance increase over the last generation processors, so if you are upgrading a few your old system you’ll be seeing huge gains on sites that are HTML5 and JavaScript heavy.