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Can your PC play 4k 60fps Youtube videos?

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My laptop definitely cannot.  It lags like all balls, and pegs my CPU at 100%.  My desktop I've yet to try but I don't have high hopes for that.  My i5-3570K @ 4.4GHz renders videos about as fast as my laptop's i7-4720HQ (3.3GHz with 4 cores and HT).  I upscaled my 1080p gameplay footage as a test if the 4k video would make the 1080p video any better looking but man, that 4k just kills my PC :P

 

EDIT 1 :  This is the video I uploaded at 4k, around the 7 second mark I get massive slow motion video but the audio works fine, and my laptop just cries.  I haven't tried with my desktop yet though, at work.

 

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my laptop struggles with it, my desktop hasn't since I got a newer GPU

 

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yup and my internet can load them without buffering

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My laptop definitely cannot.  It lags like all balls, and pegs my CPU at 100%.  My desktop I've yet to try but I don't have high hopes for that.  My i5-3570K @ 4.4GHz renders videos about as fast as my laptop's i7-4720HQ (3.3GHz with 4 cores and HT).  I upscaled my 1080p gameplay footage as a test if the 4k video would make the 1080p video any better looking but man, that 4k just kills my PC :P

My laptop lags too hard on 4K youtube videos. It can run on 2160p tho. My desktops can both run 4K videos without problems :P

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my laptop struggles with it, my desktop hasn't since I got a newer GPU

Mine has a GTX965M, which from benchmarks tells me it's about as powerful as a HD7950 so it shouldn't be that crap at playing that vid.  Who is 4k content even for if even a gaming PC struggles to even play the damn thing lol.

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My laptop definitely cannot.  It lags like all balls, and pegs my CPU at 100%.  My desktop I've yet to try but I don't have high hopes for that.  My i5-3570K @ 4.4GHz renders videos about as fast as my laptop's i7-4720HQ (3.3GHz with 4 cores and HT).  I upscaled my 1080p gameplay footage as a test if the 4k video would make the 1080p video any better looking but man, that 4k just kills my PC :P

 

 

My Laptop and PC can.

Using a Lenovo Yoga.

 

Although, no real point in watching in 4K when the video quality is small.

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My poor macbook cannot but my gaming rig can run them with ease.

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Yup.

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My Laptop and PC can.

Using a Lenovo Yoga.

 

Although, no real point in watching in 4K when the video quality is small.

The bitrate improvements are massive!  Pausing the same video at 4k and 1080p on different tabs you can easily see the quality difference, even when not fullscreen and just on the normal Youtube extended player (the cinematic view one where they put the vid in the middle and the side bar gets pushed under).

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My laptop is doing fine

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Mine has a GTX965M, which from benchmarks tells me it's about as powerful as a HD7950 so it shouldn't be that crap at playing that vid.  Who is 4k content even for if even a gaming PC struggles to even play the damn thing lol.

 

Two things that may be causing this, At least with my laptop I noticed some issues. A lot of times, the cpu in a laptop still have an iGPU built into it. I've seen laptops try to run off in the integrated Intel HD graphics chip instead of the GPU. Also make sure GPU rendering is enabled. A 965 should be able to handle 4K video at least. its not nearly as stress as 4k gaming. 

 

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My PC works flawlessly with 4k, even at 60fps. 

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Edited the OP to include the test 4k footage I uploaded.  Will try on my gaming PC in 2 hours when I get home from work.

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Two things that may be causing this, At least with my laptop I noticed some issues. A lot of times, the cpu in a laptop still have an iGPU built into it. I've seen laptops try to run off in the integrated Intel HD graphics chip instead of the GPU. Also make sure GPU rendering is enabled. A 965 should be able to handle 4K video at least. its not nearly as stress as 4k gaming. 

GPU rendering should already have GPU rendering by default no?  I believe this was the case many Chrome revisions ago.

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GPU rendering should already have GPU rendering by default no?  I believe this was the case many Chrome revisions ago.

I'm using firefox - maybe that's the issue - Chrome is a LOT more taxing

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I'm using firefox - maybe that's the issue - Chrome is a LOT more taxing

Firefox plays 4k?  I'm on my work PC now and FF isn't giving me an option to play at 4k.  It stops at 1080p 60fps.

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Yes, easy.

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My macbook can at 4k30 but can't achieve the full 60. Am still yet to test the desktop.

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Firefox plays 4k?  I'm on my work PC now and FF isn't giving me an option to play at 4k.  It stops at 1080p 60fps.

Yes - my 4720HQ was at 20% usage

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No problems whatsoever I just had to wait a few minutes for it to buffer.

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