It is no secret I am not a big believer in benchmark scores. That said, I do occasionally find them interesting if you want to get some raw numbers on theoretical performance. On that note, I was recently pointed to a "real world" benchmark on browser JavaScript performance.
This test takes about 5 minutes to run and is pretty CPU intensive. At the end you are presented with a detailed score breakdown as well as what each test was actually doing (and why it was doing it). While just about any benchmark is number crunching, this test does seem to have some logical reasoning behind the tests it runs.
With more and more web sites becoming JavaScript heavy, it never hurts to have a speedy processor. Give this test a try and see what your score comes out to.
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I tried this benchmark test on 4 browsers yesterday. The one I was using most, IE8 at 32bit on Windows 7, was the slowest at 1425/50000, . The 64 bit version of IE8 came in at 1504. Firefox 4 beta was 6579 and Google Chrome was 9552.
Chrome wins.