[Lalabadie]

I don't have exact numbers, but the difference between drawing to a 2d canvas and a Webgl canvas is also significant.

Different use cases, obviously, but if a project needs very fast 2D drawing, it can be worth the additional work to make it happen in a Webgl context.

[dceddia]

I concur, also with no benchmarks to share, but I had the experience of rewriting a video editor timeline to use WebGL instead of the 2D canvas I started with and it got much faster. Like being able to draw 10k+ rectangles at 60fps became easy, where with 2D canvas it was stumbling.

[publicdebates]

I don't know any project which uses the 2D canvas. It's horribly inefficient except for the most trivial use-cases (basically demos). Any serious web graphics uses WebGL and shaders.