Hardware acceleration refers to the process of using a computer's hardware (specifically, the specialized components or circuits) to speed up and improve performance for certain tasks. It helps in better handling of complex calculations or graphics, making things faster and more efficient.
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There's a new notifications system, built - in video chat, and upgrades to
hardware acceleration for 2D and 3D graphics, among other things.
Android 8.1 Oreo and API level 27 introduces a number of new features for developers, including a Neural networks API that allows for
hardware acceleration of on - device machine learning.
The 15 - inch MacBook Pro also had much slower 4K rendering speeds in our Adobe Premiere Pro test than the Dell XPS 15 because Premiere Pro
supports hardware acceleration on Windows but not macOS.
The Galaxy Tab 8.9 gets an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual - core CPU and Android Honeycomb
with hardware acceleration for a super smooth tablet experience.
By using instruction set optimizations on modern CPUs,
hardware acceleration on GPUs that support DirectX 12, and a driver model for purpose - built AI processors in the future, we deliver performance and efficiency on the broadest range of form factors.
Secondly, many of the benchmarks being used in anandtech's tests do not
use hardware acceleration for the Tegra 2 GPU but they do for the A5 GPU.
Some of the fancy new photo stuff is thanks to HEIF, the high - efficiency image file format Apple switched to in iOS 11 and
provides hardware acceleration for in the A11 Bionic chipset.
Adobe has announced that its latest update to the Flash runtime in 10.2 will be included with the RIM PlayBook tablet as well as Android 3.0, with the bulk of the changes centering around its new Stage
Video hardware acceleration for Flash video in order to reduce processor and memory demands.
Most previous ICS builds have used older Android kernels which lacks many features
including hardware acceleration that affects some games and HD video playback.
Sounds like TouchWiz 3.0 + Exynos - based phones are the only ones that support
UI hardware acceleration using the GPU, along with NEON instructions, to minimize UI lag, while stock Android may not get something similar until Jellybean, which I suspect will be long after 4212 - based phones arrive.
Problems arise when you try to watch an MKV - wrapped MP4 video file, Toshiba doesn't support playback of such things, so you won't
get hardware acceleration.
But Google worked closely with NVIDIA on the first version of Android 3.x Honeycomb to ensure support for features such
as hardware acceleration for 3D graphics.
Over multiple releases we've built IE on the underlying support in Windows for
graphics hardware acceleration and fast, fluid touch input for modern devices.
So far apps like Opera and Google Body are working magnificently on the Oak Trail tablet though there is a lot of room for improvement
without hardware acceleration.
In the next few weeks, Adobe intends to release GA version of Flash 10.2 for Android Honeycomb that
enables hardware acceleration and Stave Video support.
The Galaxy Tab 7 - inch, the first mainstream seven inch tablet, will likely not be upgraded to Honeycomb, as it and other seven - inch tablets like Nook Color lack the
graphical hardware acceleration necessary to properly handle the holographic UI, and other Honeycomb advancements.
Palm's ill - fated webOS was savaged by the same media outlets for stuttery behavior in version 1.x, so version 2.0
incorporated hardware acceleration and other improvements to deliver a smoother experience.
This could have been the update that Verizon told us was coming, but it doesn't mention anything about
new hardware acceleration or Flash support.
While you can download the likes of RockPlayer to bolster format support, most of these apps don't support
hardware acceleration so can't keep up with playing HD mkvs for instance.
If you're wondering how exactly that helps you out, well this particular update
brings hardware acceleration while improving the overall compatibility of the runtime and add support for...
The graphics programmers of the «90s who wrote software renderers might feel at home again today, but in
between hardware acceleration changed everything.
If you have trouble loading the video, go to your browser's advanced settings and make sure you have checked the setting called «Use
hardware acceleration when available.»
App creators can have machine learning tasks run on your PC instead of the cloud, and draw on
hardware acceleration from processors and graphics chips (including from AMD, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm).
The Videos app was 75 % more efficient in our testing than VLC with
hardware acceleration disabled, and 49 % more efficient than Windows Media Player, presenting an even greater advantage to Microsoft's Metro UI app than on Bay Trail.
The Intel Movidius Myriad X VPU is the industry's first system - on - chip shipping with a dedicated neural compute engine for
hardware acceleration of deep - learning inference at the edge.
The Acer LumiRead L600 is powered by a Freescale processor i.MX357 with a processor speed of 532 MHz and an integrated unit that
provides hardware acceleration for OpenVG 1.1.
Intel says that its latest VPU is the first industrial system - on - chip (SoC) that utilizes a dedicated neural compute engine for
hardware acceleration by efficiently distributing AI workload across various types of hardware.