Google Confirms Chrome 7 GPU Acceleration

Google has begun implementing GPU acceleration into the latest Chromium builds to "speed up its entire drawing model, including many common 2D operations such as compositing and image scaling."

The foundation of the GPU acceleration in Chrome is a new (modified) sandbox process called the GPU process. Via this process, Chrome can take graphics commands from the renderer process and send them to OpenGL or Direct3D. This approach enabled Google to separate the rendering of a web page into different independent layers, such as CSS, images, videos, and WebGL or 2D canvases.

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