Chrome browser runs my GTX 970 @ 100% GPU usage?

[poohbear]

Hey all, i noticed Chrome runs my GTX 970 @ 100% GPU usage (full speed @ 1177mhz), whereas all other programs it idles (@ 135mhz as it should). Turning off "hardware acceleration" in Chrome ensures my GTX 970 runs at idle when chrome is open, but i never had this problem with my old GTX 670 (just upgraded yesterday). I have power management to "Adaptive" in Nvidia control panel so its not that.

Is this normal with Chrome & GTX 970? or is it bug? pretty sure Chrome (on just the yahoo homepage) doesn't require the power of a GTX 970 at full load to run it (IE is doesn't do that).

Should i just turn off hardware acceleration in Chrome or is there another way around it?

 

[poohbear]

hmmm ok seems that adaptive power management under specific program settings (Chrome) doesn't work, but when i choose adaptive power management in global settings it kicks in (doesn't idle but runs @ 400mhz in chrome).

 

[ShintaiDK]

New flash 16 is out since yesterday, maybe thats why.

 

[SlickR12345]

Get rid of Chrome, its now slower and uses more memory than Firefox. I used to use Chrome almost exclusively for the past 2 years, but 3-4 months ago I started using Firefox as Chrome was using too much of my system resources. All the time it will use 80% or more CPU when watching videos or streaming, its a 4 core Intel I5 processor and it will use 3GB+ of memory even on light websites with just few tabs open.

If you have hardware acceleration it also uses up your GPU, even though its still using massive amounts of CPU.

Switched to Firefox and don't have such problems anymore. Firefox uses about 50% less resources than Chrome.

 

[Stuka87]

Chrome is horrible for resource management. Especially if you are on a laptop, it will suck batteries down like crazy.

Switch to something else and you should be good.

 

[poohbear]

wow really? jebus seems so much has changed in 2-3 years! it used to be the best and always came out on top for resource management and speed. Its now the worse? I'm assuming the GPU bug that firefox had a few years ago has been fixed?(wherein it used GPU @ 100% all the time).

for youtube videos chrome still uses GPU at full load with hardware acceleration.

 

[sxr7171]

Pretty funny how things go full circle.

 

[chadashcroft22]

I would clean install drivers with ddu because I have a 970 and only use chrome and never have that issue.

 

[AnandThenMan]

Cyberfox. Intel and AMD specific builds it's the best 64 bit browser I've found so far. Use Chrome is you like telling Google exactly what you're doing on the web.

 

[soccerballtux]

push it to the cloud

 

[soccerballtux]

Pretty funny how things go full circle.

I wish someone would make a lightweight webbrowser and then just add a few features here and there

 

[kasakka]

I wish someone would make a lightweight webbrowser and then just add a few features here and there

You can make a minimal UI but other than that the rendering engines just get more and more complex as new features pour in while legacy weirdness still has to be supported. I actually hope that at some point web browsers would just throw quirks mode rendering out of the window and just plain break on websites that are archaic and/or poorly done.

Chrome also completely craps out on pages with lots of large GIFs or WebM videos.