Can your PC play 4k 60fps Youtube videos?

[Samfisher]

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Eh, I didn't even include my vid until it was almost page 2

 

Yes - my 4720HQ was at 20% usage

Hmm, wonder why my work PC Firefox can't see the 4k setting.  I'll try again soon, laptop is going through the big Win 10 November update that I put off till today. V42.0 yea?

[Yongtjunkit]

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

my laptop can play 4k but it buffer. Download and play it with no problem. my laptop have nvidia geforce 720m and intel core i5-3337U, 1.8GHZ, 12GB of ram, 750GB HDD(5400RPM), windwos 10( windows 8 preinstalled), internet: MAXIS Fibre internet 10MBPS, using isp provided modem and router

[don_svetlio]

Eh, I didn't even include my vid until it was almost page 2

 

Hmm, wonder why my work PC Firefox can't see the 4k setting.  I'll try again soon, laptop is going through the big Win 10 November update that I put off till today. V42.0 yea?

FF 42.0 yes - Windows 8.1 with Hardware Acceleration enabled for the iGPU

[Samfisher]

my laptop can play 4k but it buffer. Download and play it with no problem. my laptop have nvidia geforce 720m and intel core i5-3337U, 1.8GHZ, 12GB of ram, 750GB HDD(5400RPM), windwos 10( windows 8 preinstalled), internet: MAXIS Fibre internet 10MBPS, using isp provided modem and router

Yeah buffering is a problem of course.  But I do let it load a bit, and even with 20 seconds of buffer play time, the thing totally murders my laptop.  Even playing the raw file on my desktop kicks it to 100% but smooth playback.

 

 

FF 42.0 yes - Windows 8.1 with Hardware Acceleration enabled for the iGPU

 

 

Doesn't FF also have hardware acceleration on by default?  Cos there was a lot of hoo haa when it was introduced and it slowed down slower PC's back like 2-3 years ago.

[don_svetlio]

Yeah buffering is a problem of course.  But I do let it load a bit, and even with 20 seconds of buffer play time, the thing totally murders my laptop.  Even playing the raw file on my desktop kicks it to 100% but smooth playback.

 

 

 

 

Doesn't FF also have hardware acceleration on by default?  Cos there was a lot of hoo haa when it was introduced and it slowed down slower PC's back like 2-3 years ago.

Not sure - Internet speed maybe? I DO have 30 down 25 up

[Yongtjunkit]

Yeah buffering is a problem of course.  But I do let it load a bit, and even with 20 seconds of buffer play time, the thing totally murders my laptop.  Even playing the raw file on my desktop kicks it to 100% but smooth playback.

 

 

 

 

Doesn't FF also have hardware acceleration on by default?  Cos there was a lot of hoo haa when it was introduced and it slowed down slower PC's back like 2-3 years ago.

my laptop also have 100% cpu usage, i've downloaded a 4k video and it played smoothly

[ZetZet]

I drop some frames, but it's impossible to notice. 

 

 

 

[Samfisher]

Not sure - Internet speed maybe? I DO have 30 down 25 up

And it's 100 up and 100 down at my office   I let it buffer past the point where it stutters, and just doesn't seem to like it lol.  Well I'll test it, 92% Windows upgrade completion!

 

 

I drop some frames, but it's impossible to notice. 

 

 

 

 

What plugin is that?

[Patrick Bateman]

4670k pegged at 100 percent... but i did have some other stuff open. chrome using about 70-80 percent

[royalcrown]

I can play it without any lag or frame drop on my system, 2.4 ghz even so I say "yep" using about 50 percent CPU in chrome on win 10 at stock clock.

[Samfisher]

I can play it without any lag or frame drop on my system, 2.4 ghz even so I say "yep" using about 50 percent CPU in chrome on win 10 at stock clock.

I wonder why you get so low CPU usage, when almost everyone else here gets their CPU at 100% once the vid starts.  Gotta find a better way to view 4k content!

[don_svetlio]

I wonder why you get so low CPU usage, when almost everyone else here gets their CPU at 100% once the vid starts.  Gotta find a better way to view 4k content!

Windows 8.1?

[Citadelen]

Almost defiantly, but my internet, not so much... :,(

 

[Samfisher]

Windows 8.1?

Win 10 laptop, same for desktop. Work PC....32-bit Win 7 ):

[royalcrown]

I wonder why you get so low CPU usage, when almost everyone else here gets their CPU at 100% once the vid starts.  Gotta find a better way to view 4k content!

 

 

Windows 8.1?

 

 

To answer you guys I have my rig in my profile, but it's a 3770k at stock everything on an Asus Maximus V Formula, Win 10 Pro and Chrome Version Version 47.0.2526.80 m. 

 

GPU is Asus 780ti DC2OC and running a netgear 7500v2 and BCM94352HMB AC card.

 

IDK if any optimizations are going on but the my GPU was around 2 percent. Beats me.

[infamous_last]

My junker can play it fine, but my internet struggles.

Jumping from Win7 to Win10 I've seen improvements in how youtube plays video at fullscreen @ 4K

[VikingGaming]

My i7 4790K @4.7 Ghz paired with SLI 980's have no issues.
Win10, Google Chrome, 100/10 connection

[royalcrown]

Hey Samfisher, I noticed something for you. When I had around 50 percent CPU usage I was running the stock GPU driver that comes with windows dated around 8/12 *or 8/21 * and one chrome tab fullscreen youtube. I was going to record it with shadowplay in the nvidia driver suite  and noticed that my CPU shot up to 99 with low uality settings in shadowplay percent and also I had 4 or 5 chrome processes running vs 1. Maybe it's the driver junk, IDK, but rolling back to MS Driver for sure !

[Stadiz]

GTX 980M, yes I can.  

[Makarov_9mm]

My PC can, but my 6 mb/s download speed can't.