Chrome - Hardware Acceleration

Google Chrome is an incredibly stable web browser, it intentionally takes a lot of memory from the computer to do so. Chrome is also very concern about the time it takes to load things, and offers a feature to improve this a little bit more.

This feature is known as Hardware Acceleration.
Before understanding the concept of hardware acceleration, lets remember the following:

All programs run from the CPU.

The Central Processor Unit (CPU) is in charge of running all computer programs. the better the CPU is, the better the programs will run. Although other components like the main memory RAM, and the disk space also influence how fast a program can run, the increase of CPU speed shows the graters improvement over the others.

What does Hardware Acceleration do?

Some computers have additional processing power devices other than the CPU, some have video cards known as GPU's. Some computers also have a video and audio codec cards to allow the processing of these to be faster and more accurate. CPU can do the task these additional devices can, but this dedicated devices are made with to perform a very specific task extremely good.

Chrome knows about this and takes advantage of it by running with the CPU and asking other devices to perform the tasks they were designed to do, giving less to do to the CPU. In theory, this let's the computer get to a result faster; in practice, this makes chrome faster. This process is called Hardware Acceleration.

How do I make sure I have it?

To make sure you are taking advantage of this feature at your address bar on Google Chrome, type: chrome://settings

Then, there should be a search bar at the top of the page. There type:

Hardware acceleration

Make sure it is turned on, and you are good to go.

Note: If you do not have GPU or Video codec card there is no point of having it check. So you can unchecked it with no issues.