Firefox Getting GPU Acceleration, Maybe Before IE9

[megamanx00]

Cool, first flash GPU acceleration and now general web rendering acceleration. Hope it pans out, but I guess we'll see.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

I was wondering about power consumption differences between gdi and direct2d? on a laptop that will be crucial - and also, what about speed and power differences with an igp chip?

 

[Guest]

Now is it just me but why do I get a feeling that going from 12 ms to 6 ms might look... exactly the same?

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]REalm[/nom]Now is it just me but why do I get a feeling that going from 12 ms to 6 ms might look... exactly the same?[/citation]
in most cases it will, but being one of those people with moms playing games on facebook for hours at a time, I know it isn't always the case.
If I could make her use the geforce 9400 in her laptop for them - simply by changing to firefox, I'm quite sure she'd start liking firefox.

 

[heffeque]

What about OpenCL? That would make it easier sense OpenCL can be executed by GPUs and CPUs.

 

[nebun]

it won't be long before Microsoft will take advantage of GPU processing and code the whole OS to run on it

 

[nachowarrior]

wait... so you're telling me direct2d hasn't been being used this whole time? Who's lame ass idea was it to go with GDI?

 

[cryogenic]

[citation][nom]nachowarrior[/nom]wait... so you're telling me direct2d hasn't been being used this whole time? Who's lame ass idea was it to go with GDI?[/citation]

Erm, Direct2D is only available in Windows 7 and Vista SP 2, GDI was the core windows graphics stack since Windows 1.0 (yes the 16bit version)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd370990%28VS.85%29.aspx

 

[rooket]

That firefox chick is still hot and yeah I know it is shopped.. too bad GPUs don't get u women like that 😉

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]nebun[/nom]it won't be long before Microsoft will take advantage of GPU processing and code the whole OS to run on it[/citation]
I disagree. Can you imagine running something is massive as Windows on Intel IGP? :lol:

 

[jv_acabal]

[citation][nom]False_Dmitry_II[/nom]What about linux? That looks like it would only accelerate in windows.[/citation]
Direct2D means Windows. I hope they'll build an OpenGL version for us Linux users. I believe Linux is where Firefox first emerged.

 

[lashton]

create the world most unstable browser (FF) with GPU accleration, we are all doomed

 

[WINTERLORD]

goo googly moogly that thang is loose... lol

 

[perzy]

Finally all those "I dont play games, I'm so serious and hardworking"-guys can justify buying that expensive graphics card that they always do. "For movie rendering" was getting a bit thin...

 

[perzy]

Finally all those "I dont play games, I'm so serious and hardworking"-guys can justify buying that expensive graphics card that they always do. "For movie rendering" was getting a bit thin... 🙂

 

[kronos_cornelius]

[citation][nom]False_Dmitry_II[/nom]What about linux? That looks like it would only accelerate in windows.[/citation]

Yeah ! How come they embrace Direct2D, isn't OpenGL more .... Open ! and cross-platform.

On the other had, if you already have compiz (with GPU acceleration), that should accelerate firefox somewhat ? anecdotally, I notice Gimp faster with a GPU accelerated linux. I may be wrong, I have not checked the code or looked into the matter further. I am sure there are experts in this forum that can set me straight.

 

[pocketdrummer]

They need to support 64-bit when this comes out. Many more computers are supporting 64-bit now. In fact, in the last run of surveys by Valve, the majority of gamers running Win7 were running the 64-bit version.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]BounceDK[/nom]I can smell all the Ati graphics cards crashing already. Yeah I have one, worst purchase this year I tell you.[/citation]
Just be happy you didn't buy an xfx 8800gtx ... they have a tendancy to be equipped with rubbish memory chips.
Ati isn't always good, but nvidia is mostly worse.