Nvidia hobbles WebGL performance on laptops

Re:Nvidia hobbles WebGL performance on laptops by jdboyd on Monday December 30, 2013 @04:04PM (#6986939)

Since Chrome uses the 3D accelerator to render normal pages, without Nvidia's "hobble" the 2nd GPU would be active all the time, which would be poor for battery life.

It would be nice if it could be configured to do just that when running on external power, but I don't think that hobbling WebGL is the goal.

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Re:Nvidia hobbles WebGL performance on laptops by AshleysBrain on Monday December 30, 2013 @04:20PM (#6987042)

But they already defaulted it to using integrated graphics before to save battery. It's too far when you can't even change the setting, even when you're on mains power.

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Re:Nvidia hobbles WebGL performance on laptops by nailer on Monday December 30, 2013 @06:40PM (#6987887)

That's already mentioned in the article.

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