I put together this page to check if your browser is GPU accelerated, and show instructions for enabling it if not. Had to diagnose a freshly installed laptop with a high end GPU in which Chrome was was using the integrated GPU by default…
Curious if any other folks are surprised to find out that their machine is either not using their primary GPU, or hardware acceleration isn’t enabled. If this GPU check page showed you something unexpected, (and helped you fix it.. ) please comment here!
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I tested it. With Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, I had about 41-45 FPS, with Windows (11) deciding.
After the change, 60 FPS. But the note remains, is it fixed and not a test statement?
It is quite useful. I could have used it some time ago. I have configured different browser to use different GPUs and acceleration options (Chrome for the fastest setup, Firefox for the (s)lowest, Opera is somewhere in between; also Chrome is with WebGPU, Firefox is with WebGL2).
The recommendation is only for turning on hardware acceleration. Would it be useful to have steps for turning it off? And steps for switching between integrated and dedicated GPU? And steps for picking OpenGL or Direct3D for Windowsmen?
Sometimes someone might need to switch to degraded performance (e.g. for testing playability of a game or interface responsiveness for low-end hardware).
There are some aestetical issues with the page, but they are not important. And I’m still confused by the silhouette of banana peeling (it is the first element in the title).
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It’s complete AI slop wrapped around a chunk of webGL me and eipporko cobbled together. 
I just wanted a nicer wrapper for it, and to have the instructions for enabling. I’m not sure if there is a consistent method for choosing which/when the app should use integrated GPU vs dedicated.. but the NVidia method described worked for me. IDK what the ATI/others equivalent is.
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I think that means you’re still defaulting to your integrated GPU (assuming you have another GPU in the system). I think laptop makers aggressively default to integrated bc it improves battery life.. but if you have a real discrete GPU i feel like.. you want to use it? Do you have more than integrated gpu in your machine?
I had a 17" laptop a while ago, but I couldn’t cope with the small screen anymore, so now I have a Desk Mini, which has laptop technology inside, and two larger monitors. They could soon be even bigger, as developers are putting more and more elements on the pages.
So no extra GPU.
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