This all adds up to Google’s browser being the quickest on M1 Macs, benchmarking roughly 7% quicker than Safari. Google reports that its testing was conducted on a 14-inch MacBook Pro equipped with a 10-core M1 Max processor and 64 GB of RAM. When we repeated the test on a 13-inch M1-powered MacBook Pro with 16 GB of RAM, the performance difference was even greater: Chrome scored 252 runs per minute, plus or minus 8.6, while Safari scored 185 runs per minute, plus or minus 46. That’s almost a 30% difference on average, though there was obviously a lot of variety with Safari. With our computer’s slower processor and less RAM, we fell short of the 300 thresholds claimed by the Google team.
