"GPU process" in Vivaldi, consumes 4 times more RAM than Chrome!
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@kirill1996 All non-free codecs (f.ex. AAC, HE-AAC, H265).
The developer of these non-free paid-licensed codecs is Google. -
@doctorg said in "GPU process" in Vivaldi, consumes 4 times more RAM than Chrome!:
All non-free codecs (f.ex. AAC, HE-AAC, H265).
The problem is not the codecs!
Problems, even in the rendering of the Vivaldi interface and rendering speed problems.P.s.Problems with the consumption of RAM by your video codecs, urgently need to solve, not just ignore.
The work of your browser is extremely inadequate.
Even reinstalling Windows and your browser does not change anything. The problem is not with my laptop and Windows, but with your browser. -
@kirill1996 You should report the massive GPU&memory consumption to Vivaldi tracker
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@kirill1996 So here, I do not have an ancient dual-core Intel processor such as yours, but I do have an ancient dual-core AMD Athlon processor that's roughly equivalent, on one of my older machines. However, that machine only has 4GB of DDR2 RAM, not 8GB, and relies on basic, basic onboard graphics (which are so old, Win10 would not even install on the machine without a forced workaround).
Using the basemark 3.0 web test on that machine with Vivaldi in ArchLinux, I get a score of 128.56. Stand by for test in Opera, if I can install it on that machine.
On my main machine in Win11, however, Opera Beta does score 6% better than Vivaldi Stable. This is probably down to its using pay-for codecs and having a single-layer native UI, whereas Vivaldi has only open-source codecs and a dual layer (whence it gets all of its customizability and features) UI. On this machine, of course, both Opera and Vivaldi get about 500% of the score of the old hardware - to the point that speed differences in rendering, etc. are not human-detectable between Opera and Vivaldi.
One thing for you to be aware of: Disabling extensions does not always get their fingers out of the functioning of the browser. Sometimes to be rid of their effects and interference to see how the browser functions on its own, they must be uninstalled.
Further, sometimes either disabling or forcing hardware acceleration can have dramatic beneficial speed and rendering effects for Vivaldi due to unique GPU issues.
(and, note, Opera is downloading on the old rickety AMD Linux machine as we speak)
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@kirill1996 So - testing this on 12-year old AMD hardware on Linux, Opera does do 40% better than Vivaldi on basemark. So based on a sample of (2), I would say the older the hardware, the harder it is for Vivaldi to keep up.
If you report your results to the bug tracker, it's possible the developers could find some innovative solutions for older hardware.
Stay tuned, tho, because I will run these tests on middlin' (not modern, not ancient) hardware as well.
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@kirill1996 The codecs are used to render routine browser content.
When you are rendering webpages that have ANY content other than HTML, you are using the codecs plugged in to the browser.
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@kirill1996 So a test in Win10 on an AMD A10-8750 with an NVIDIA GEForce G7 710 and 16GB DDR3 RAM showed a 12% better result for Opera Beta than Vivaldi. Both of them still in the 400's, so still a barely-humanly detectable difference in result.
Shall I test on some more machines?
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@Ayespy said in "GPU process" in Vivaldi, consumes 4 times more RAM than Chrome!:
So a test in Win10 on an AMD A10-8750 with an NVIDIA GEForce G7 710 and 16GB DDR3 RAM showed a 12% better result for Opera Beta than Vivaldi. Both of them still in the 400's, so still a barely-humanly detectable difference in result.
Shall I test on some more machines?What screen resolution do you have?
Maybe my problem is due to the scaling in Win11 and Vivaldi, which conflict somehow?
With Opera, 0 problems at all. It's really fast, unlike the extremely slow one.My resolution is FHD!
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@kirill1996 said in "GPU process" in Vivaldi, consumes 4 times more RAM than Chrome!:
What screen resolution do you have?
That depends on the machine and the monitor. I have a lot of machines and a lot of monitors.
Res here is 1920 X1080.
Vivaldi does not have its own screen resolution. It complies with your system settings.
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@Ayespy said in "GPU process" in Vivaldi, consumes 4 times more RAM than Chrome!:
That depends on the machine and the monitor. I have a lot of machines and a lot of monitors.
Res here is 1920 X1080.
Vivaldi does not have its own screen resolution. It complies with your system settings.The problem is solved by running ffmpeg codecs on Ubuntu.
Worth ffmpeg, run on Windows as well!
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@kirill1996 As i remember for 5.4 Nightly, there are ongoing fixes related to better support of ffmpeg and Windows. I hope, i di not misunderstood the dev team's changelogs.
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@DoctorG said in "GPU process" in Vivaldi, consumes 4 times more RAM than Chrome!:
As i remember for 5.4 Nightly, there are ongoing fixes related to better support of ffmpeg and Windows. I hope, i di not misunderstood the dev team's changelogs.
The first 2 screenshots - standalone,
the second 2 screenshots - stable:
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Why this is so, I can't understand at all.
All extensions are turned off and I haven't made any settings in "flags". -
I had the problem, exclusively in the local profile!
Clean browser with an empty profile - works fine installed, but if restored my profile from the backup, then the frees are constantly happening!