Many sites slow, hardware acceleration not an option

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Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Turn off Hardware Acceleration
  2. Go onto any site with animations (e.g. https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine)

Expected result: Expected is a lag-free browsing experience. The actual result is an extremely laggy experience.

Brave Version( check About Brave): Version 1.66.118 Chromium: 125.0.6422.147 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information: Hardware Acceleration is not an option due to constant tab crashes. My OS is Windows 10, and my hardware consists of:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600
GPU: AMD Radeon RX570 (8GB VRam)
RAM: 16x2GB (32GB)
PSU: Corsair CX 550

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More Additional I just found: When on that site, the Browser’s CPU usage increases from ~1,3% to ~15%, and RAM increases from ~1874MB to ~1917MB. Power usage changes from ~Low to Very High.

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@italy2003,
Site works perfectly fine on my end on my laptop(s) with much lower specs than what you’re running. To be clear, if you do enable Graphics Acceleration does the site run properly?

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Yes, the site runs normally with Graphics Acceleration turned on. However, it causes crashes in tabs, other applications (for me Discord), and several games.

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Which GPU are you using? would also try to update the drivers/try slightly older drivers (in case the current drivers are buggy).

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@fanboynz I have an AMD (ASRock) Radeon RX570 with 8 GB of VRAM. I’ll check for Driver Updates once the AMD Software is finished installing. I turned off graphic acceleration, should I re-enable it?

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Try finding a newer update, yeah enable HW acceleration.

Reason why its slow, all the decode will be offloaded to the CPU. Rather than the GPU which is much faster. Decoding sites on the CPU will stutter more often and peg the CPU resources to 60-100%.

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