Benchmark: rgb vs rgba (1 & 0.5) vs hex canvas

HTML Preparation code:

<canvas id="canvasOne" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvasTwo" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvasThr" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvasFour" width="400" height="400"></canvas>

Script Preparation code:

var canvasOne = document.getElementById("canvasOne");
var ctxOne = canvasOne.getContext("2d");

var canvasTwo = document.getElementById("canvasTwo");
var ctxTwo = canvasTwo.getContext("2d");

var canvasThr = document.getElementById("canvasThr");
var ctxThr = canvasThr.getContext("2d");

var canvasFour = document.getElementById("canvasThr");
var ctxFour = canvasFour.getContext("2d");

Tests:

alpha 1
ctxOne.clearRect(0, 0, 400, 400); ctxOne.beginPath(); ctxOne.fillStyle = 'rgba(231, 76, 60, 1)'; ctxOne.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxOne.fill();
no alpha
ctxTwo.clearRect(0, 0, 400, 400); ctxTwo.beginPath(); ctxTwo.fillStyle = 'rgb(249, 206, 201)'; ctxTwo.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxTwo.fill();
hex
ctxThr.clearRect(0, 0, 400, 400); ctxThr.beginPath(); ctxThr.fillStyle = '#f9cec9'; ctxThr.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxThr.fill();
apha 0.5
ctxOne.clearRect(0, 0, 400, 400); ctxOne.beginPath(); ctxOne.fillStyle = 'rgba(231, 76, 60, 0.5)'; ctxOne.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxOne.fill();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
alpha 1
no alpha
hex
apha 0.5

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 4 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.142 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 75 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
alpha 1	241529.7 Ops/sec
no alpha	247540.4 Ops/sec
hex	248355.8 Ops/sec
apha 0.5	248134.8 Ops/sec

rgb vs rgba (1 & 0.5) vs hex canvas (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: alpha 1 vs no alpha vs hex vs apha 0.5

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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alpha 1

no alpha

hex

apha 0.5

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A