Is Chrome causing frame drops in fullscreen 60fps videos without hard acceleration enabled?
Is Chrome causing frame drops in fullscreen 60fps videos without hard acceleration enabled?
My system details are as follows:
Mobo: ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI BIOS 2007
CPU: Ryzen 7800X3D
Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S
GPU: RTX 4080
RAM: 64GB (4 x 16GB) Vengeance at 5200MHz C40
PSU: XPG Cybercore Platinum 1300w
I’d assume YouTube wouldn’t cause much trouble, but if hardware acceleration isn’t enabled (or I’m unsure about the setting), performance drops during fullscreen YouTube videos at 60fps. It remains stable when switching back to normal mode or enabling GPU acceleration, though it uses significant GPU power—sometimes reaching 18-20% of capacity for a single video.
Is this typical? I assumed it might be Gsync, and disabling it resolved the issue. Opera shows the same behavior. Firefox also behaves identically, but Stats for Nerds reports no frame loss, which is confusing.
How do you feel about this situation? Any suggestions? Thanks!
If it consumes 20% of the 4080, then it will also require significant CPU power, likely surpassing GPU usage—that's why hardware acceleration exists to make the process more efficient. But a 20% load for a 1080p/60FPS video on a 4080 is quite high, aren't you worried about hidden processes using excessive resources?
Nope, but i think in that instance it was 4k60. Its weird, it doesnt seem to be happening on firefox. Could it be freesync? I did try turning it off but i dont see an option to kill it for chrome specifically. its not happenng on firefox, it doesnt seem to happen on my other pc with a 2080s and Ryzen 5700