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		sgustard on June 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple announces it will switch to its own processo... Why does a CPU running 500+ gigaflops struggle to animate a gif? Is the software stack really that bad?

nyanpasu64 on June 23, 2020 [–]

On my laptop, scrolling through Discord's GIF list can cause Chrome and Discord to hard-lock until I kill the GPU process. Possibly because of a bug in AMD's GPU drivers on Windows.

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