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My graphics card is only able to play video on YouTube with max resolution 720p. If I choose 1080p then I get less than 1 frame per second playback.

This is disappointing; seeing that Radeon 5600 XT graphics card can only play videos in 720p. I am pretty sure that poor performance is caused by Radeon graphics driver; there are no other problems of any kind on my system.

Radeon software team = 🤡🤡🤡
The bugs without end need to be stopped. AMD software deserve their bad reputation 100%

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  • 5
    3y
    Could also be some borked system. On my end, I can play YT in 1080p with just the AMD iGPU.

    You could cross-check whether you can play 1080p videos e.g. in VLC just to rule out your browser as problem source.
  • 2
    3y
    @Fast-Nop for me Radeon is specifically unable to play VP9 video codec which is used for YouTube videos. Other codecs such as H264 work fine
  • 1
    3y
    Is it only for 60fps videos? I would expect Radeon HD5600 to play 1080@60 just about fine, lol.

    Are you sure it's not your cpu that can't keep up?
  • 0
    3y
    @electrineer What work exactly does the CPU even have to do except copying the data? Given the data rate of a video stream, that should be hardly above idle load on the CPU.
  • 0
    3y
    @Fast-Nop well, little if the decoding is hw accelerated
  • 0
    3y
    @electrineer It should be, that's the point. Then again, the 5000 XT series was particularly bad in terms of drivers because it involved also new hardware.

    AMD's APUs are fine, but their GPU market share is tanking to the point where you have to wonder whether AMD is giving up on GPUs once and for all.
  • 2
    3y
    @Fast-Nop you're forgetting console GPUs - all major consoles apart from Switch use AMD GPUs (as did the last generation), and they use the same tech as their PC GPUs. They're very much in the high performance graphics market.
  • 3
    3y
    Afaik chrome does not use gpu for youtube videos. I tested this on my laptop and desktop few months ago. Only opera gx was able to fully utilize gpu for hw acceleration.
  • 0
    3y
    Something else must be wrong if I can play 1080p60 videos in a VM using software decoding on an i5 and you cannot do so (presumably) using hardware acceleration on a beefy GPU.
  • 0
    3y
    @RememberMe So they only have practically abandoned the PC market. Basically presenting ever new Ryzen CPUs for gaming and expecting people to pair that with Nvidia.
  • 0
    3y
    @hack there should be an option about hw acceleration or "performance" in the setttings of the browsers
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