Internet Explorer 11 Will Use Your GPU to Make Everything Fast

[Marcus Yam]

Microsoft's next-generation web browser will use your graphics hardware for more than just Crysis.

Internet Explorer 11 Will Use Your GPU to Make Everything Fast : Read more

 

[JPNpower]

The age of the GPU is here! also coming to 7! Everybody wins

 

[Guest]

This is awesome, I hope Google and Mozilla implement this into their browsers, makes browsing awesome for gamers

This would also be an effective move on the 360 I think

 

[Cryio]

"Internet Explorer 11 Will Use Your GPU to Make Everything Fast"

Weren't versions 9 and10 already doing this with dazzling results?

More to the point, it seem Internet Explorer 11 will do with hardware acceleration what Opera intentionally wanted. Accelerate EVERYTHING, including the UI and the text itself.

 

[Cryio]

It's also sad to see how Opera pioneered HWA, yet they are the last of the bunch to actually implement it. Soon not even in their own engine.

 

[plattyaj]

I'd prefer it if they just fixed it to work with all the sites, or bits of sites they broke with IE10!

 

[Jerky_san]

Wouldn't this mean increased power consumption as if you have a discrete card it may be unable to bring the power to idle consumption?

 

[Amdlova]

yes gpu pumping more 70w right on the wall...

 

[fleeb]

Firefox does not draw 70 W more power despite hardware acceleration option has been part of it since v4.

 

[irish_adam]

The slowness of IE updates means that even if it is faster at launch their lead will be gone in a few weeks and by the time IE12 comes IE11 will be useless

 

[Peter Chang]

Will they never stop cranking out POS browsers? My developer soul weeps.

 

[Cryio]

How bad does it have to be that it needs GPU ??? OMG !

1) You're talking out of ignorance
2) You really don't know how all this GPU stuff works, right?

 

[CyranD]

This article is misleading. There a reason that the Web Browser Grand Prix do not count the SunSpider JavaScript performance benchmark in there scoring. I not going to believe IE11 can compete with non IE browsers when it comes to JavaScript till I see some less bias benchmarks.

 

[eklipz330]

a bunch of morons got a hold of keyboards today...

 

[aicom]

Wouldn't this mean increased power consumption as if you have a discrete card it may be unable to bring the power to idle consumption?

It shouldn't. Modern GPUs have drivers and firmware built with the knowledge that programs and OS features are going to be using them for UI acceleration and encoding/decoding during regular use. They have multiple performance states that allow them to get sufficient performance while staying at low power during these loads.

 

[Vorador2]

Wake me up when IE11 supports the same plugins that Firefox and Chrome does.

 

[danwat1234]

"IE11 will also support adaptive streaming, which will make for a better YouTube experience."
Isn't that on the flash plug-in? Upgrading the flash plug in will provide that functionality to all browsers?

The official Adblock plus is coming to Internet Explorer 6 through 11 sometime this summer.

 

[leo2kp]

That's great, but it's sad that they have to go this far to be competitive in the browser wars. I still hope it turns out OK.

 

[logainofhades]

Sad that IE has to use GPU to be fast yet other browsers don't have this problem.

 

[lilcinw]

Wait... Netflix on HTML5?!?

Does that mean someday I will be able to stream Netflix natively on Linux?

 

[koga73]

"How bad does it have to be that it needs GPU ??? OMG !"
"Sad that IE has to use GPU to be fast yet other browsers don't have this problem."

All browsers utilize the GPU for hardware acceleration with CSS3 and Canvas rendering.

The difference between IE's hardware acceleration and other browsers is that IE is built on DirectX while the others are built on OpenGL. Why does this make a difference? Because DirectX is proprietary to Microsoft while OpenGL is open. The shitty part is Microsoft forces people to upgrade their OS to upgrade DirectX and subsequently to upgrade their browser. This is why XP users are stuck with IE8. From a development standpoint this is bad because as a developer we have to continue to support these legacy systems restricting us from using new HTML5 and CSS3 features. Microsoft is working hard to slow the internet's progress.

As for netflix in HTML5 while I believe it's possible I don't see how it could be secure. Flash and Silverlight protect video streams while HTML5 exposes videos to the end user potentially allowing the user to grab the video.

 

[majudhu]

Hey toms, they opened 100 tabs without crashing the browser.

 

[cats_Paw]

This is the end of a era.
Soon, "But can it run Crysis?" will become "But can it run IE11?"

Id be too afraid that it would burn down my GPU.

 

[rrr1431]

I'll try it just to see if MS can actually make a decent browser this time.

 

[logainofhades]

I'll try it just to see if MS can actually make a decent browser this time.

I highly doubt they will.