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Out of curiosity, what would you use a stronger graphics card for on a Chromebook? I thought all the video codec acceleration was on the CPU. Do you use a lot o
by Godel_unicode 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what would you use a stronger graphics card for on a Chromebook? I thought all the video codec acceleration was on the CPU. Do you use a lot of WebGL?
- sunnyps 10y agoGaming on Linux, maybe? A lot of games in my Steam library are Linux compatible. Re: video decode acceleration, ChromeOS on Broadwell should support GPU accelerated h264/VP8 decode and hardware assisted h265/VP9 decode. (I might be completely misinformed about this though.) I'm not really concerned about the GPU performance with regard to video decode.
- dogma1138 10y agoCan you actually use the gpu properly through curton?
- sunnyps 10y agoThere are two modes for X11 under Crouton: GPU accelerated output (called "xorg" mode) and unaccelerated output to a chrome window (called "xiwi" mode). Both seem to work fine based on my limited testing with Gnome on Debian Sid.
- sliken 10y agoChromeOS is getting android compatibility, so you can run android games. It's not particularly hard to get ubuntu working on most chromebooks. Not to mention even random web games (like slither.io) do better with a decent gpu, especially if your driving a monitor with more than 1080P.