With and without hardware acceleration whilst watching 4K video on Youtube

With: Lower load and longer battery. Without: Heat, noise, higher load and pathetic battery for Youtube viewers!

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration

My vainfo https://s.natalian.org/2018-03-13/vainfo.txt You probably need libva-intel-driver installed.

When you use chromium-vaapi-bin, be sure to enable the feature in about:flags https://s.natalian.org/2018-03-12/hw-fix.png

My hardware: T480s with VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07), Intel 8th generation. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQM_KVHrJbs