The tests were run on a Lenovo W540 with an Intel HD Graphics 4600 GPU. 95m, Firefox 34.0.5, and Internet Explorer. I ran all three major browsers in their newest incarnations through the scenario outlined above: Chrome. Suffice to say that there are great differences between the browsers tested. While running these tests I deliberately ignored things like visual quality, framerates, etc. Twitter newsfeed, refreshed every 15 seconds for 2 minutesĪll of these sites use modern web technologies, only Youtube uses Flash as a fallback.The Boxtrolls movie website, refreshed every 15 seconds for 2 minutes.In order to evaluate the effect of GPU hardware acceleration on CPU utilization I put together a simple little test suite: Nobody seems to have measured how GPU acceleration affects CPU usage. Interestingly, facts to prove that are hard to find. People generally seem to be happy about that – GPUs are super-efficient, the more work they do the fewer remains for the CPU, overall energy consumption is reduced and battery life increases. Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer all have hardware acceleration turned on by default.
Today, applications like Microsoft Office leverage the GPU, but even more so do web browsers.
After slowly but steadily moving out of the 3D niche it has arrived in the mainstream.
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