What Browser Has Best GPU Acceleration?

I have 55mbps connection (speedtest) and pretty capable gpu, yet I receive a ton of lag when watching 1080p videos. Even when I had 120mbps.

 

I have 4 mb connection and I watch 720p youtube with no problem with IE , yet that if the connection ping is good , when it get worse problems start to happen

 

neither. I use chrome as my main browser and I always disable this feature in chrome and in flash it self.

 

I have a 50/50 connection (58/62 according to speedtest.net) and if I use my ISP's DNS servers, I can't even watch 720P videos. If I use OpenDNS or Google DNS servers, I can watch 1080P video with no issues at all. Doesn't matter what browser I use or if GPU acceleration is enabled.

 

I disable HW accleration in Firefox and disable protected mode with flash, I always find protected mode makes things laggy
http://techdows.com/2012/06/disable-flash-players-protected-mode-for-firefox.html

 

If the system in the sig is the one that's used, it's probably more the system used than the browser version. Also there is no mention of the OS used, nor the driver versions etc.

I think that's why he is looking for hardware acceleration, but like I said it's difficult to recommend things without knowing the OS version, OS architecture (32-bit or x64), and driver versions in use. Also, what browsers are currently used.

 

Hmm, I'm on Win8.1 U1 64 bit Pro. Currently using the 340.62 Cuda drivers, but possibly installing 340.65 later today.

I've used Firefox, Firefox - Light, Waterfox, Chrome, Chrome - Canary, and IE11. I can say for one that in chrome://flags "gpu accelerated compositing" says "unvailable; android" on all versions, but as I say again, my gpu is more than capable of powering a flash video.

 

Flash on Firefox is pretty damn laggy. IMO it runs way better on IE11. I've switched to HTML5 player for YouTube ages ago for that reason, much better experience with Firefox that way although it doesn't support MSE like the rest so it's stuck at 720p max when watch youtube videos.

 

With my Dell Venue 8 Pro Windows 8.1 Pro tablet. Chrome with the HTML 5 YouTube Player it runs great no problems and Flash runs great with it too. Unlike Firefox or any variation of Fire Fox which causes unresponsive script warnings when I go to pause the video. And that thing runs Intel HD graphics.

 

Are you watching youtube? Youtube is pathetic still for gpu acceleration.

My gfs pc with x2 4200+ @ 2.4 with HD 5450 will lag on 1080p on youtube. But blu ray will work flawless and any other site with 1080p.

We have 55mb/15mb comcast.

 

Thank you! I can watch 4k videos in VLC player with any api, and zero lag, but I can't watch youtube videos.

 

Have you tried the DEV builds of Chrome?

Latest one can always be found here http://filehippo.com/download_google_chrome

 

I just finished using Chrome 64 bit version 39 for about two weeks, and I'm back to IE 11.

IE 11 to me has the best GPU acceleration by far. Web pages load so much faster, and scroll so much smoother on IE 11 compared to Chrome..

 

Have you tried to see YT`s videos in any media player (capable to play directly from site)? Like PotPlayer.

 

Nope. Why?

 

For me, the fastest of the browsers is IE11. I find its GPU acceleration the best implemented of them all.

 

Such player can solve original problem decoding video stream by its own means. No browser`s context/implementation, no browser`s plugin.

 

if you have atleast nVidia GT200 series GPU/ or AMD 5000 series of Radeon GPU
be sure to have latest driver (even one of the recent is enough... 326. or 13.4 is enough..
)
For Chrome.. install flash from adobe web site, ignore that it has built in flash.
then type chrome://plugins, disable pepperflash (you can check location. and use the installed from adobe website, then install youtube center, and there is "player, change to flash, same for embedded "change to flash". also for channel, so you always get playback via flash, and not via crappy HTML5. and set flash wmode to GPU, (for all three player,channel,embedded)
I have Turion X2 P520 @ 2.3 and 5730 GPU
And Athlon x2 4800+ @ 3.05GHz and GT220 GPU.
and here is my result, (Athlon x2) even in normal window, accelerated decoding and accelerated rendering, can have 3 1080P videos at same time, thats the maximum what can GT220 handle, (VPU stays at 95-100%).
i use opera, so just install youtube center, and set it like on chrome, and you will get same result, here is my result from opera next. as you can see, first 40 dropped frames were because from 720p i switched to 1080p, then full screen, and since then, as you can see, CPU is bored. and Hardware ACC works. If you need more help, feel free to contact me on FB: Sano Shaker.
http ://i61.tinypic.com/29ni8eo.jpg (remove space between : and // )

 

I am the same. I have a 50/15 Net. I disable HW acceleration on all browsers but when i am on my ISP DNS the connections is really slow. I switched to OpenDNS and my net improved drastically on ping times and loading of youtube videos and such.

 

hii all testing yours browsers

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/FishBowl/Default.html

select auto fish and wait for stable fish in my config gtx 570 with firefox 33.1.1

stable with 2500 fish 60 fps