Innerspring Mattress Face-off: Avocado Green vs. Charles P. Rogers Powercore Estate 5000

But in our latest round of mattess testing, this stalwart faced fresh competition: the Avocado Green mattress, $1,400, the sole product sold by a two-year-old company. Although its name is playful, the innerspring is no joke.

Christopher Regan, the engineer who oversees CR's mattress test, cites similarities between these similarly priced competitors. "Both mattresses use latex and pocket springs," he says of the construction. "But you can't judge a mattress by its ticking."

With like materials, one might assume that the Avocado and the Powercore Estate would produce similar results in our tests—but while both performed well, one clearly rose to the top.