![]() ![]() I can’t believe it took this long to happen, but it finally did. ![]() Updating to 10.1 not only dropped CPU utilization, but it made full screen Hulu Desktop watchable on a ~1080p display with the Ion system. While CPU usage wasn’t at 100%, the latest episode of The Office was completely unwatchable in the previous version of Flash. The biggest difference I saw was running Hulu Desktop in full screen mode (1920 x 1200). Now on to the full screen Hulu tests: Full Screen 1920 x 1200 Average CPU Utilization The Hulu HD results were a bit high but the YouTube HD test showed a drop from 60% CPU utilization down to 12%. YouTube HD 720p - Prince of Persia Trailer I’d say that all of the tests below were totally playable on the Ion system thanks to Flash 10.1. Not only do the numbers drop, but playback performance (number of dropped frames) improves significantly. The integrated GeForce 9300/9400M chipset supports DXVA/DXVA2 and should be able to offload much of the video decode from the sluggish CPU to the integrated GPU.Īs you can see from the results below, CPU utilization drops significantly when going from Flash 10.0.32.18 to 10.1.51.45. It had a copy of Windows Vista 圆4 installed so I stuck with that. I dusted off ASRock’s ION system based on the Intel Atom 330 (dual-core 1.6GHz Atom) processor for the first part of today’s testing.
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