Get Chrome for Mac: The Ultimate Browser for Your Retina Display

You'll immediately notice on the Retina Display that Google has fixed the issue with quality, but this fix will only be of use to the user when it comes out as a public release. This version is made for the Retina Display as well as other devices in the Mac range.

While the Retina Display is the highest quality screen you've ever seen on a laptop, the issue of quality is still there, whereas Apple has made their Applications ready for it, other companies are yet to catch on. This is where this beta of Google Chrome comes in. The Apple M1's GPU prowess also has an inordinate impact on these test results, with Chrome both native and x86_64 translated on the M1 outrunning Chrome on the Ryzen U powered HP EliteBook.

If you own the New MacBook Pro with Retina Display, then you're in for a real surprise. Safari enjoys an absolutely crushing advantage on this test, more than doubling even M1-native Chrome's performance. Chrome x86_64 under Rosetta2 takes a significant back seat to everything else here, though we want to again stress that it does not feel at all slow and would perform quite well compared to nearly any other system.

Finally, MotionMark 1.1 measures complex graphic animation techniques in-browser and nothing else. This is the closest thing to a 'traditional' outside-the-browser benchmark and is the most relevant for general Web applications of all kinds - particularly heavy office applications such as spreadsheets with tons of columns, rows, and formulae but also graphic editors with local rather than cloud processing.

Jetstream2 is the broadest of the three benchmarks and includes workloads for data sorting, regular expression parsing, graphic ray tracing, and more. Speedometer shows a massive advantage for M1 silicon running natively, whether Safari or Chrome. Chrome x86_64 run through Rosetta2 is inconsequentially slower than Chrome running on a brand-new HP EliteBook with Ryzen U CPU.

This version of Google Chrome is available today, and as expected, it's significantly faster if you're doing something complicated enough in your browser to notice. We find it difficult to believe anyone using the non-native binary for Chrome under an M1 machine would find it 'slow.' That said, Google's newer, ARM-native version is a true statement we make.

For more information on the new Apple M1 and its capabilities, please refer to our earlier testing and hands-on review.

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