


In this article, let us see how to Turn On and Turn Off Hardware Acceleration in different ways. Hardware acceleration is a feature enabled in Microsoft Edge by default that lets Microsoft Edge move all graphics and text rendering from the CPU to the. In such cases, we might want to Turn OFF the Hardware Accelerator. The new Chromium based Microsoft Edge is supported on all versions of Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server (2016 and above), Windows Server (2008 R2 to 2012 R2), and macOS.

By default, this feature is enabled in Microsoft Edge. When there are some bulky tasks like graphics or video loading etc, these tasks are offloaded from the CPU and sent to GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) in order to save some resources of CPU and hence enhancing the performance of the system. Generally, all the tasks are handled by the CPU. Hardware Acceleration is a simple process where web browsers ( in this case Edge) use specific hardware components called accelerators to run their computationally heavy tasks more efficiently.
