Benchmark: Canvas context2d: Image vs ImageBitmap vs Canvas (new new)

Script Preparation code:

var img = new Image();
var imageBitmap;
var doneLoading = false;
var canvasImage = document.createElement('canvas');
canvasImage.width = 700;
canvasImage.height = 700;
var canvasImageBitmap = document.createElement('canvas');
canvasImageBitmap.width = 700;
canvasImageBitmap.height = 700;
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.width = 700;
canvas.height = 700;
var canvasCanvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvasCanvas.width = 700;
canvasCanvas.height = 700;

var ctxImage = canvasImage.getContext('2d');
var ctxImageBitmap = canvasImageBitmap.getContext('2d');
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var ctxCanvas = canvasCanvas.getContext('2d');

async function globalMeasureThatScriptPrepareFunction() {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    img.addEventListener('load', function() {
        createImageBitmap(img)
      .then(function(bitmap) {
        imageBitmap = bitmap;
        debugger;
        doneLoading = true;
        console.log("bitmap preparation done");
        resolve(true);
      }, false);
      
      ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
      console.log("canvas preparation done");
    });

    img.src = 'https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-52MtzD0GfX0/WvP52CL1WjI/AAAAAAAAOVw/_OpK4JHeWK01d-7IiZ6vzojYGhXqLRXrACLcBGAs/s1600/EMxediL.jpg';
  });
}

Tests:

Image
ctxImage.drawImage(img,0,0);
ImageBitmap
ctxImageBitmap.drawImage(imageBitmap,0,0);
Canvas
ctxCanvas.drawImage(canvas,0,0);

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 5 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 5 runs

Image

1.5M/s

ImageBitmap

90K/s

Canvas

88K/s

Fastest: Image (16.7x faster)

View exact numbers

✓ Image: 1,466,313 ops/sec
• ImageBitmap: 89,665 ops/sec
• Canvas: 87,717 ops/sec

Results show median performance across all community submissions. Run this benchmark yourself to verify on your device.

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Image
ImageBitmap
Canvas

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 10 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/139.0.0.0

Browser/OS: Chrome 139 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Image

2.0M/s

ImageBitmap

238K/s

Canvas

88K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Image	1,996,444 Ops/sec
ImageBitmap	238,049 Ops/sec
Canvas	87,717 Ops/sec

Canvas context2d: Image vs ImageBitmap vs Canvas (new new) (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: `Image vs ImageBitmap vs Canvas`

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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Image

ImageBitmap

Canvas

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 5 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 5 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Canvas context2d: Image vs ImageBitmap vs Canvas (new new) (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: Image vs ImageBitmap vs Canvas

Created: one year ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

Image

ImageBitmap

Canvas

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 5 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 5 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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