Flash Player 10.1 Gets GPU Hardware Acceleration

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/17/2009 12:28 PM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Though a press-release from ATI - NVIDIA's bringing the same support through CUDA.

California-based Advanced Micro Devices has just revealed that the recently-announced Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta will be supported by platforms powered by Vision Technology from AMD. The latest installment of Adobe's Flash Player takes advantage of the benefits and features that are enabled through AMD's ATI Stream technology, providing an improved video playback, reduced CPU utilization and longer battery life through the combination of using the resources available from both the CPU and the GPU.

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