High GPU usage on articles on Thurrott.com

Anyone noticing high GPU usage when viewing an article on Chrome? I realized my laptop started running warm and I realized this was the cause. It happens only when viewing an article.

I uploaded a youtube video showing this in action: https://youtu.be/d0i9PqiCRro

It happens only in Chrome so I guess it’s some kind of bug.

Conversation 10 comments

  • Tim

    Premium Member
    07 February, 2018 - 9:36 am

    <p>So i'm not able to replicate this on my machine on Thurrott but this is the type of reason I recently switched to Firefox. I'll keep an eye on this though. Are you certain it was the Thurrott tab? Could it have been a weird ad displaying? </p>

    • rameshthanikodi

      08 February, 2018 - 8:43 am

      <blockquote><a href="#243898"><em>In reply to Tim:</em></a></blockquote><p>Yup, certain it was the Thurrott tab, Chrome's own task manager was reporting higher GPU usage when I switched to the tab. Anyway, I updated chrome yesterday and I longer have this issue. </p><p><br></p><p>Or it could have been a weird ad. I'll keep checking.</p>

      • Brad Sams

        Premium Member
        08 February, 2018 - 8:50 am

        <blockquote><a href="#244156"><em>In reply to FalseAgent:</em></a></blockquote><p>Hoping it was just a bad ad, tried to replicate here but only seeing a few % gpu usage while on the site. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/AWqkqeB.png"><img src=""></p>

        • Tim

          Premium Member
          09 February, 2018 - 11:17 am

          <blockquote><a href="#244159"><em>In reply to brad-sams:</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Everyone knows you've got two 1080's BRAAAAAAD</p>

  • Nicholas Kathrein

    07 February, 2018 - 10:42 am

    <p>He's mining crypto when you viewing his articles. It's hard to get premium members. Seems like a fair trade to me, </p><p><br></p><p>****I'm only joking. But do it Paul. Do it!******</p>

    • Polycrastinator

      07 February, 2018 - 8:36 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#243912"><em>In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein:</em></a></blockquote><p>I'd love to know the percentage of users who visit here using ad blockers. I'd guess it might be as high as 50%, so probably not going to be a giant money spinner, that one (although I'm sure the same criticism could be made of ads).</p>

      • rameshthanikodi

        08 February, 2018 - 8:46 am

        <blockquote><a href="#244071"><em>In reply to Polycrastinator:</em></a></blockquote><p>I remember seeing ad-blocker polls reporting percentages as high as <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(or higher than) </span>60%, so considering the readership of this site, i'm sure it's higher</p>

  • jimchamplin

    Premium Member
    07 February, 2018 - 11:55 am

    <p>CPU not getting over 10% on the highest spikes.</p>

    • rameshthanikodi

      08 February, 2018 - 8:38 am

      <blockquote><a href="#243970"><em>In reply to jimchamplin:</em></a></blockquote><p>GPU, not CPU.</p>

      • jimchamplin

        Premium Member
        08 February, 2018 - 3:14 pm

        <blockquote><a href="#244155"><em>In reply to FalseAgent:</em></a></blockquote><p>Reading your reply made me almost snort Dr Pepper. I apparently failed at basic reading comprehension!</p>

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