Tapping into graphics chip power can speed up browsers. But it's a deep, complicated change, and it's not imminent for Google's browser. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Hardware acceleration refers to when a software uses support from computer hardware in order to speed up processes, namely those that are repetitive in nature. Google Chrome does this. However, you ...

Google Chrome has allowed you to render web pages using your GPU in the past few versions, however the location continues to change (and depends on which version of Chrome you are running). The above ...

Google’s Chrome web browser will soon gain hardware-accelerated graphics—the latest trend for web browsers that has already shown up in early builds of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4. Hardware ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

My 2011 MBP finally succumbed to the the widely-reported discrete GPU issue, rendering it unbootable unless I disable the graphics card drivers, which of course disables hardware acceleration. I ...