Chrome's resource hogging has been known to reduce even relatively powerful computers to a chug. Although improvements have been made over the years, there's no getting around the fact that modern ...

When you browse Web pages with extensive use of graphics or moving images, your computer's central processing unit handles all the work in processing and loading the graphics. If you have a high end ...

It's only available in the Dev and Canary builds of Chrome, and very few pages support it—for now. But if you want to get hardware acceleration running in Google's browser, it's just a simple command ...

A recent post on Microsoft’s Building Windows 8 blog explains how DirectX 11.1 and hardware acceleration improves UI performance and maximizes battery life. A recent post on Microsoft’s Building ...

AMD on Wednesday said its Fusion integrated graphics APUs and Radeon discrete GPUs will leverage Internet Explorer 9's built-in hardware acceleration capabilities, which Microsoft showcased on Monday ...

A powerful video editor takes great strides with GPU acceleration, but it needs to speed things up even more to compete with Adobe Premiere Pro. If there’s one thing that stifles creative energy with ...

Not so fast, Internet Explorer! We know that you have great things in the works for IE 9 — including Direct2D GPU acceleration, the 2D / vector graphics API that we first laid eyes on in Windows 7.

VMware, as a virtualization platform, provides various features or options to enhance the functionality and performance of the VMs. One such option is 3D acceleration, which helps us enhance our ...