Microsoft: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

By | December 22, 2011 | 10 Comments

Microsoft: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

With Christmas approaching at a rapid rate, Microsoft has decided to launch a HTML5 powered web site “Let It Snow”, which showcases the benefits of GPU accelerated graphics.

If your are up for a challenge, set the number of snowflakes to 4,000 and enjoy the show. There is even a hidden message for you to “uncover”.

However, in case your web browser can’t handle that much snow, there is always another option: IE9 or IE10.

Happy Holidays!


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  • Saex Conroy

    cool

  • Everybody

    Tip: Search for “Let it snow” in Google. :)

  • Anonymous

    Hmm, I wonder why my usually faster than IE browsers seem slower than IE in this test.  I don’t suppose there is some code in there than hobbles other browsers, or they have cherrypicked a known weakness in other browsers to highlight????

    Seems that way….

    • Sarjoor

      It’s because it is true that IE 9 and 10 are the best at GPU accelerated graphics, which is mainly what this test is using.

      • Mikah

        Have to agree with you the majority of tests I’ve tried IE9 rules , but its not true for Let it Snow at least on my PC .
        Opera 12 60 fps & IE9 lagging badly behind with a mere 58 fps.

  • Dante

    O 12 DirectX – 1366×653 – 4000 snowflakes: 40 fps
    O 12 OpenGl – 1366×654 – 4000 snowflakes: 30 fps
    IE 9 – 1366×635 – 4000 snowflakes: 28 fps
    FX 9 – 1366×672 – 4000 snowflakes: 3 fps

    Ch 17 – 1366×677 – 100 snowflakes: 20 fps
    O 11.6 – 1362×631 – 100 snowflakes: 7 fps

    CPU: i5-430M GPU: ATI HD5650 

    • Everybody

      What? Opera doesn’t support DirectX backend yet. Where did you take that version from?

    • Foxer

      Maybe I’m wrong but FX seems to be slow because of the outdated GPU Driver. Check it at the bottom at about:support.

      • Mikah

        I’m only getting 7fps with Firefox 9 with a ATI HD 5870 & I have the latest drivers,
        normally Firefox is pretty good with anything requiring HWA.

  • Arthur Ţiţeică

    As the website says – 60 fps in Linux with the latest Opera snapshot. However the perceived FPS is like 5. Crappy test…

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