Microsoft Edge has further reduced power consumption by Creators Update, more than 30% energy saving compared to Chrome

Windows 10 large update "Creators Update"Many improvements were also made to the Microsoft Edge web browser. Originally it was characterized by "low power consumption", but it has been reported in Microsoft official movie that the difference with Chrome and Firefox spread further due to the improvement.

Browser efficiency comparison - Fullscreen Vimeo
https://microsoftedge.github.io/videotest/2017-04/VimeoMethodology.html

Microsoft Edge Experiment: Battery Life | Windows 10 Creators Update Edition - YouTube


In the test, three Surface Book are prepared, eachMozilla Firefox 52, Microsoft Edge 40,Google Chrome 57The same video is streaming played at.


The laptop PC is driving the battery at the same timing.


About 7 hours ago, the Surface that was running Firefox warned the battery level.


And after 7 hours the screen got dark.


Approximately two hours further after that, the remaining battery warning was displayed on the Surface where Chrome was running this time.


It also shuts down in about 20 minutes.


Still video editing continues at Edge ......


The battery had 12 hours 31 minutes and 8 seconds. "The result may change depending on the terminal and the test conditions", but in this case the PC's battery drive time using the Edge is about 5 hours 20 minutes (77%) compared with Firefox, compared with Chrome It was about 3 hours 10 minutes (33%) that it was long.


By the way, when measuring the average power consumption of CPU, GPU, Wi-Fi antenna when using three web browsers, Edge is 31% compared with Chrome 57, 44% compared with Firefox 52, energy saving He said that.

Browser efficiency comparison - Webdriver
https://microsoftedge.github.io/videotest/2017-04/WebdriverMethodology.html

A graph showing the power consumption. The lower one is low consumption, so you can see that Edge's CPU · GPU · Wi-Fi power consumption is low corresponding to Chrome's CPU power consumption.