YouTube HTML5 Vs Flash

This is the first time I’ve done and performance tests between HTML5 and Flash. Lets see how this goes.

Firstly the computer I’m running is

The web browser I’m running is Google Chrome Version 19.0.1084.46

I watched a YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=iMP3PsKmcyU in 720p HD full screen
 

 

 

 

 

I watched the video in Flash v11.2.202.235 and the system resources looks as like
 I went to the url http://www.youtube.com/html5 and enabled HTML5

Watched the same video again in HTML5 and the system resources looks as like
 I was pleased by the cpu load reduction but I was very impressed by the improved picture quality.