Many people using this system will be enjoying Flash related content so on this page we wanted to see how the ASROCK ION3D would handle Flash and HD content. Both AMD and nVidia offer hardware acceleration with their recent drivers so we can offload some of the processing to the GT218.
By simply enabling hardware acceleration, our average CPU time is reduced from 48 percent to 23 percent, a reduction of 108.6%. While this might not seem that dramatic, in real world terms when hardware acceleration is enabled the system feels much more responsive.