--- title: Brave for Desktop Outperforms Other Browsers in Speed... description: New benchmarks comparing Brave, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on macOS (Apple M2, macOS 26.5.1) find Brave outperforms the other three across every resource metric... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/brave-for-desktop-outperforms-other-browsers-in-speed-and-performance-exeib6b6l twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Brave for Desktop Outperforms Other Browsers in Speed and Performance | daily.dev og:description: New benchmarks comparing Brave, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on macOS (Apple M2, macOS 26.5.1) find Brave outperforms the other three across every resource metric... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/brave-for-desktop-outperforms-other-browsers-in-speed-and-performance-exeib6b6l og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/exEib6B6l.png og:image:alt: Brave for Desktop Outperforms Other Browsers in Speed and Performance og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Brave for Desktop Outperforms Other Browsers in Speed and Performance **[Brave](https://daily.dev/sources/brave)** · 12 min read · 25 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary New benchmarks comparing Brave, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on macOS (Apple M2, macOS 26.5.1) find Brave outperforms the other three across every resource metric tested: 44% less CPU, 28% less memory, 10% less energy, 20% faster page loads, and 26%/39% less inbound/outbound network data. The tests used Playwright-based automation across the top 50 sites, with methodology and per-metric breakdowns (energy via powermetrics, CPU/memory via ps, network via Playwright instrumentation) detailed alongside synthetic benchmark results (Speedometer 3.1, JetStream 2.2, MotionMark 1.3.1) where Brave, Chrome, and Edge cluster closely since they share the Chromium engine. The gains are attributed to Brave's built-in adblocking and tracker blocking reducing network requests and processing overhead. Safari was excluded due to lack of an Android version for cross-platform comparison. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much less CPU does Brave use compared to Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on desktop? Brave uses about 33% mean CPU utilization versus roughly 47% for Chrome, 53% for Edge, and 78% for Firefox, an average of 44% less CPU across all three competitors. The gap is attributed to Brave's native adblocking, which removes page resources that would otherwise need to be fetched, parsed, and executed, reducing CPU work per page load. _Anyone weighing browser choice for performance-sensitive workflows can track benchmarks like these on daily.dev._ ### How much faster does Brave load pages compared to Chrome, Edge, and Firefox? Brave loads pages about 20% faster on average, with a mean load time of roughly 4.4 seconds compared to 5.1 seconds for Chrome, 5.3 seconds for Firefox, and 6.0 seconds for Edge, measured from navigation start to the loadEventEnd event on macOS. The speed gain comes mainly from blocking third-party ad, tracker, and analytics requests that load after the main content. _Developers benchmarking browser choices can follow performance comparisons like this on daily.dev._ ### Why do Brave, Chrome, and Edge score similarly on synthetic benchmarks like Speedometer and JetStream despite Brave's real-world performance advantage? Brave, Chrome, and Edge all run on the Chromium engine, so their scores on engine-focused synthetic benchmarks such as Speedometer 3.1 and JetStream 2.2 naturally converge, while Firefox trails due to its different Gecko engine. These synthetic tests omit real-world factors like adblocking and network optimization that drive Brave's advantage in actual browsing measurements. _Teams comparing browsers for real-world speed rather than synthetic scores can dig into results like these on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@confused\_snake** · 3 upvotes > Pretty meaningless without installing adblockers on the other browsers or deactivating Brave shield. Of course will websites bloated with ads consume more resources. **@catalin560** · 3 upvotes > who still uses crApple in 2026?! maybe showcase some benchmarks on hardware that is actually used by people and not just some dirty hipsters... > > tbh I really wanted to like Brave but its UI/UX feels so bloated with useless crap like crypto, vpn, ai etc... if it were configurable just like Firefox I'm sure it would have been an amazing browser but as it stands its just another Google Chrome reskin... **@bestcodes** · 2 upvotes > This is unfair because duh, blocking ads will make a page load faster. Add Ublock to the other and see how they do then. > > They also benchmarked against Firefox 146.0.1, which is pretty unfair to Firefox as that was released nearly a year ago. **@jeanne** · 1 upvotes > Wondering how Helium performs, considering it's Brave-like but without the bloated UX. Anyway I discovered this Browser thanks to the comment of another user of Daily.dev (sorry not to be able to give the credits, I can't remerber the user tag): I adopted it immediately, it's exactly what I can expect from a Browser. Lightweight UX, adblocking, privacy-first and exposing bangs to be able to search on a website directly from the url bar (love this one, I use it all the time). **@agustinbarrientos** · 0 upvotes > Without matched tracker blocking, I wouldn't read much into the 44% CPU gap ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Firefox 149 vs. Chrome 147 Web Browser Performance On Linux](https://daily.dev/posts/firefox-149-vs-chrome-147-web-browser-performance-on-linux-fgdbs9jld) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#google-chrome](https://daily.dev/tags/google-chrome), [#firefox](https://daily.dev/tags/firefox) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/brave-for-desktop-outperforms-other-browsers-in-speed-and-performance-exeib6b6l) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Brave for Desktop Outperforms Other Browsers in Speed and Performance","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/brave-for-desktop-outperforms-other-browsers-in-speed-and-performance-exeib6b6l","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/brave-for-desktop-outperforms-other-browsers-in-speed-and-performance-exeib6b6l"},"datePublished":"2026-09-02T16:18:46.018Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T20:36:25.542Z","description":"New benchmarks comparing Brave, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on macOS (Apple M2, macOS 26.5.1) find Brave outperforms the other three across every resource metric...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2c2dd01ea2c4e9aca7d4b3c9dd199b49?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2c2dd01ea2c4e9aca7d4b3c9dd199b49?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Brave","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Brave","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/12f1006df9d246a39d7fba20ab78bcba","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/brave"},"commentCount":8,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/brave-for-desktop-outperforms-other-browsers-in-speed-and-performance-exeib6b6l","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":25},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":8}],"keywords":"google-chrome,firefox","timeRequired":"PT12M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Brave","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/brave"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Brave for Desktop Outperforms Other Browsers in Speed and Performance"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/brave-for-desktop-outperforms-other-browsers-in-speed-and-performance-exeib6b6l","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Pretty meaningless without installing adblockers on the other browsers or deactivating Brave shield. 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Add Ublock to the other and see how they do then.\nThey also benchmarked against Firefox 146.0.1, which is pretty unfair to Firefox as that was released nearly a year ago.","datePublished":"2026-09-08T15:09:32.253Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/exEib6B6l#c-B1dpQSIUV","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Best Codes","url":"https://daily.dev/bestcodes","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/106822363?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Wondering how Helium performs, considering it’s Brave-like but without the bloated UX. Anyway I discovered this Browser thanks to the comment of another user of Daily.dev (sorry not to be able to give the credits, I can’t remerber the user tag): I adopted it immediately, it’s exactly what I can expect from a Browser. 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