Run results for: HTMLImageElement vs HTMLCanvasElement vs ImageBitmap

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.3.2

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

HTMLCanvasElement

235.8M/s

HTMLImageElement

231.6M/s

ImageBitmap

226.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ HTMLCanvasElement	235,771,328 Ops/sec
HTMLImageElement	231,552,656 Ops/sec
ImageBitmap	226,386,416 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var
natrualWidth = 0,
naturalHeight = 0,

eleImg = document.createElement("img"),
cvsImg = document.createElement("canvas"),
bmpImg = null,

canvasEleImg = document.createElement("canvas"),
canvasCvsImg = document.createElement("canvas"),
canvasBmpImg = document.createElement("canvas"),

ctxEleImg = canvasEleImg.getContext("2d"),
ctxCvsImg = canvasCvsImg.getContext("2d"),
ctxBmpImg = canvasBmpImg.getContext("2d"),

doneLoading = false;

canvasEleImg.width = canvasBmpImg.width = canvasCvsImg.width = 640;
canvasEleImg.height = canvasBmpImg.height = canvasCvsImg.height = 480;

eleImg.addEventListener("load", function()
{
	cvsImg.width = naturalWidth = eleImg.naturalWidth;
	cvsImg.height = naturalHeight = eleImg.naturalHeight;
	cvsImg.getContext("2d").drawImage(eleImg, 0, 0, natrualWidth, naturalHeight, 0, 0, natrualWidth, naturalHeight);

	Promise.all([
		createImageBitmap(img)
	]).then(function(images)
	{
		imageBitmap = images[0];

		doneLoading = true;
	}, false);
});
eleImg.src = "https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/447410261289205781/574359442913492992/unknown.png";

Tests:

HTMLImageElement
if (doneLoading) ctxEleImg.drawImage(eleImg, 0, 0, natrualWidth, naturalHeight, 0, 0, natrualWidth, naturalHeight);
HTMLCanvasElement
if (doneLoading) ctxCvsImg.drawImage(cvsImg, 0, 0, natrualWidth, naturalHeight, 0, 0, natrualWidth, naturalHeight);
ImageBitmap
if (doneLoading) ctxBmpImg.drawImage(bmpImg, 0, 0, natrualWidth, naturalHeight, 0, 0, natrualWidth, naturalHeight);

Run results for: HTMLImageElement vs HTMLCanvasElement vs ImageBitmap

CanvasRenderingContext2d::drawImage with HTMLImageElement vs HTMLCanvasElement vs ImageBitmap

HTMLImageElement

HTMLCanvasElement

ImageBitmap