IE9 Will Change the Web Forever

[Night Hawk]

IE9 Will Change the Web Forever

By: Rob Enderle
April 12, 2010

Will Internet Explorer 9 change the way we surf the web with its use of the GPU? Rob Enderle thinks it will.

IE6 became the dominant browser worldwide early last decade but unfortunately Microsoft took their eyes off the ball resulting in a raft of surprisingly good challengers. IE7 was OK but disappointing and IE8 moved back to challenge for leadership again. Now IE9 is looking like a whole different kind of beast. Although browsers have traditionally leveraged the CPU and system RAM, IE9 supposedly leverages the GPU (graphics processing unit) and promises to provide a significant performance improvement as a result.

This is why, for this cycle, NVIDIA has suddenly become a huge advocate for ie9. This is a big shift for browsers and where the market leader goes, the others will likely follow. This could be the biggest change for the web since the introduction of the web browser.

More at: IE9 Will Change the Web Forever

 

[not so gray matter]

I'll stick with a browser that eats my processor, not my gpu thank you very much.

 

[whs]

That's all we need - more eye candy and games. What a waste of effort. But it's clear why they do that, it attracts the paying masses.

 

[helmutcheese]

GPU is way forward, CPU is so old.

Many things are now being done on the GPU, why use 4 Cores when Nvidia have 480 Cores ?

 

[polarbear]

I'm open... will wait and see... GL

 

[helmutcheese]

Adobe's new CS5 due out real soon also uses Nvidia GPU's capabilities (CS4 did partly esp iof a Quadro GPU).

Flash Beta/RC builds also use it.

List goes on, and no clue why anyone inc peep above would want to very unparalleled CPU over a very parallel GPU.

 

[smarteyeball]

GPU is way forward, CPU is so old.

You seem to be an advocate of the 'way forward' - yet you hate Seven... hmm.

 

[helmutcheese]

GPU is way forward, CPU is so old.

You seem to be an advocate of the 'way forward' - yet you hate Seven... hmm.

I do not see the many bugs/removed basic functions in Win 7 (basically Vista SE) as way forward and so far SP1 fixes next to nothing.

If you need to ask me about the above then you obliviously do not know much about the OS or use it fully.

I do not see your point in even posting TBH.

 

[Firestrider]

I'll stick with a browser that eats my processor, not my gpu thank you very much.

A GPU can do what the CPU can do but do it more efficiently (e.g. more performance for the same power consumption) depending on the workload. Having the rendering engine utilize the GPU is definitely a step forward.

Although I hate how Microsoft is using their proprietary DirectX technology instead of an open standard its not a surprise.

 

[si8mon]

When the IE9 beta come out i be quick to adopt it to see if it's as fast as chrome. I think it will be much faster then IE8 but not as fast as chrome and opera.

 

[smarteyeball]

I do not see the many bugs/removed basic functions in Win 7 (basically Vista SE) as way forward and so far SP1 fixes next to nothing.


If you need to ask me about the above then you obliviously do not know much about the OS or use it fully.

Well then it is fortuitous for the both of us I don't need to ask... but thanks for the laugh you gave me with your erroneous assumption.

I do not see your point in even posting TBH.

What you fail to see is of little concern to me

 

[helmutcheese]

I do not see the many bugs/removed basic functions in Win 7 (basically Vista SE) as way forward and so far SP1 fixes next to nothing.


If you need to ask me about the above then you obliviously do not know much about the OS or use it fully.

Well then it is fortuitous for the both of us I don't need to ask... but thanks for the laugh you gave me with your erroneous assumption.

I do not see your point in even posting TBH.

What you fail to see is of little concern to me

2 OFF TOPIC posts by you which brought nothing to this thread, your simply,a TROLL !

 

[sygnus21]

your simply,a TROLL !

You can't be serious ???


VS


I'll take the smart one

 

[Night Hawk]

Alright people keep it civil! No flaming each other!

I'll be waiting to see just what they bring out in IE 9. What don't seem to realize is hidden potentials in vpu powerr yet to unlocked. People run out and buy all the fancy video cards but never see the full potential put to use. Of course this also helps advertisers on graphics as well as you watching your favorites at Youtube and other multimedia online.

The processing power potential should pages load up much faster when that is put into effect as well. To top things off you have HTML5 coming in which will have it's effects on Adobe Flash Player, MS Silverlight, APache Pivot, Java of course, and other things which call for cpu time now moved to the gpu once directed there.

 

[Wasila]

However good IE9 is, it will collapse if the perception of IE doesn't change.

 

[helmutcheese]

your simply,a TROLL !

You can't be serious ???


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I'll take the smart one

3 OFF TOPIC posts in this thread now adding ZERO to topic, your as bad as him !

Does not matter if I had 1 post and he or you had 1, 000,000.

 

[JMH]

IE9 on GPU Steroids - 6 Benefits -
IE9 on GPU Steroids - 6 Benefits - Hardware-accelerated HTML5 - Softpedia



IE9 Test Drive -
Interested in checking out the new Web platform capabilities of Internet Explorer 9?
Internet Explorer 9: Platform Demos

 

[Everlong]

your simply,a TROLL !

You can't be serious ???


View attachment 66988 VS View attachment 66989


I'll take the smart one

3 OFF TOPIC posts in this thread now adding ZERO to topic, your as bad as him !

Does not matter if I had 1 post and he or you had 1, 000,000.

And that's 3 by yourself as well.

I'll stick with a browser that eats my processor, not my gpu thank you very much.

What's wrong with it using the GPU? The GPU has been shown to be much more efficient in numerous things, and new Nvidia cards have been developed as GPGPU cards, so I'm just wondering how differently IE will perform like this.

 

[Night Hawk]

To really start to understand why vpu power has to be considered over the cpu you have to look at the increased intensity seen with graphics in web content as a rule as time progresses. Getting back on HTML5 for example following the IE Blog is another place to look as well as those.

Friday, April 09, 2010 12:55 PM

Benefits of GPU-powered HTML5

At MIX 10 we showed how we’re building on new Windows technologies like Direct2D, DirectWrite and XPS to enable Internet Explorer 9 to render all standards-based web content – text, images, video and SVG – using the power of the GPU.

In this blog post we’ll review the major improvements for web developers and users that come from building on these Windows technologies. For more detailed information on Direct2D technologies, see this excellent PDC2008 talk.

Performance, performance, performance

The benefit of building on Direct2D technologies is that the browser makes the most of the underlying PC hardware that is optimized for rendering rich graphics. This results in faster web applications and a higher quality browsing experience for users and web developers.

As IE9 does more work using the GPU, there is less CPU load, enabling other browser subsystems to do more, as well as enabling higher frame rates for smooth animation and video playback.

The GPU is a much better choice for some graphical operations – for example, the GPU executes alpha blending and bilinear image scaling much faster than the CPU, and uses pixel shaders to perform complex per pixel calculations.

Super-fast zoomed browsing

IE9 uses the GPU to scale images and other content, making zoomed browsing very fast – this is what makes the map zooming demo on ietestdrive.com so fast.

Windows is still the only broadly used operating system that allows the users to change the size of all UI elements on the screen to improve readability and legibility on new high DPI displays on laptops and desktop computers. IE9 builds on the work done in Internet Explorer 8 (the first browser to zoom Web page content by default) to ensure that users can easily read the Web on high DPI displays.

Hardware accelerated HTML5 video using Windows Media Foundation

IE9 makes the most of your graphics hardware by using the Windows Media Foundation system to play HTML5 video, using the CPU or the hardware video decoder if available.

The reduction in CPU usage on machines with hardware video decoders greatly improves battery life – for example, in our MIX demo we played two 720p HD videos, using barely 30% CPU on a $400 netbook. (versus 100% CPU usage in other browsers, playing only one HD video while dropping frames.)

with more seen at: IEBlog

Actually one part out of all of that sums up what you need to know to see why utilizing the vpu makes far more sense then simply staying with the cpu driven standards.

The benefit of building on Direct2D technologies is that the browser makes the most of the underlying PC hardware that is optimized for rendering rich graphics. This results in faster web applications and a higher quality browsing experience for users and web developers.

Do we remain in the Stone Ages or progress forward?(in pc terms that is) The other part I could point to abiout IE 9 starting to utilize the graphics capabilities is this.

The GPU is a much better choice for some graphical operations – for example, the GPU executes alpha blending and bilinear image scaling much faster than the CPU, and uses pixel shaders to perform complex per pixel calculations.

When seeing your present browser run into slow downs while loading pages with a lot of graphics, photos, etc. on the page what happens? People complain: "hey why is .... running so darn slow when I go to...". Why not take advantage of the specific processor intended for graphics?

 

[sygnus21]

Man this is sounding better and better. Can't wait to see it in action.