hardware acceleration on or off

[save Palestine]

if my cpu is weaker than my gpu, i should turn on hardware acceleration?

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Well, I for one have tested this setting so many times I lost count and my conclusion is it does absolutely NOTHING!

When I mean nothing I mean NOTHING, zero, nada, zilch. So feel free to turn it on or off to your placebo liking because you certainly won't notice a difference.

[N3tRunn3r]

oN

[save Palestine]

OK i will turn it on, does that mean my weak cpu is going to work less?

[Bing Chilling]

hardware acceleration on = higher GPU usage
hardware acceleration off = higher CPU usage

in general, hardware acceleration should be on for users with
dedicated graphics cards as they are purpose built to render videos/images/text..etc

[mtono]

Nguyên văn bởi идиот:

if my cpu is weaker than my gpu, i should turn on hardware acceleration?

what you can do is to play games with high/ultra quality, because you have a faster gpu. this is what i would say and mainly i am sure. give it a try.
my2ct

[CJM]

Nguyên văn bởi rapoo_fan:

Nguyên văn bởi идиот:

if my cpu is weaker than my gpu, i should turn on hardware acceleration?

what you can do is to play games with high/ultra quality, because you have a faster gpu. this is what i would say and mainly i am sure. give it a try.
my2ct

That is the primary option, but most NVIDIA GPUs are held back by limited VRAM. Even 8GB cards are being underutilized compared to the extremely CPU heavy games of late, but less than 12GB of VRAM only tends to increase the CPU burden.

Basically, alot of modern games are garbage.

If you have 16GB of VRAM to run at 1440p Ultra, then you will probably want a 4k 120Hz TV set that has motion-interpolation or motion-smoothing. A "frame-gen" type of technology. If you can lock the frame rates at 40, then you can generally get a smooth interpolation approximating 80 FPS. Otherwise, NVIDIA's DLSS 3 supports Frame-Gen on the GPU for finer control over the interpolation of frames.

If your CPU is 30 FPS weak, your GPU only has 8GB of VRAM, and your CPU and/or GPU only has 8 PCI-Express lanes, then you are due for a very expensive upgrade,...

[Omega]

Leave it on unless you are experiencing issues. Hardware accelleration will offload the rendering to the GPU, it tends to be much more peformant and it will save you from a whole bunch of CPU overhead.

[save Palestine]

thank you very much everyone

[mtono]

keep on being busy...

;-D