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The use of computer hardware to perform some functions faster than is possible in software running on the general-purpose CPU.

The use of computer hardware to perform some functions faster than is possible in software running on the general-purpose CPU.

Examples of accelerators could be:

  • graphics accelerator with graphics processing units (GPU)
  • floating-point accelerator
  • regular expression hardware acceleration
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How do I tell if Ubuntu supports hardware-accelerated graphics on my laptop?

The new Gnome 3.0 requires hardware acceleration support. I wanted to try it out -- but how do I tell whether hardware acceleration is supported on my machine?
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Simplest way to use graphic acceleration to watch videos

I've heard about the possibility to play videos using graphic processor of video card instead of normal processor. I've read a few tutorial but I haven't see improvement in performances, processors continue to work a lot, so maybe I just haven't…
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High cpu usage on youtube

When playing videos on youtube the cpu increases up to 100% while in everyday use it stays around 15%. In windows when playing videos on youtube the cpu usage is between 20 and 30% I think it's a driver problem or graphics acceleration problem. My…
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