Flash 10.2 has tenth of 10.1’s CPU consumption, says Adobe

By (author unknown), MacNN | The Macintosh News NetworkDecember 15, 2010 at 11:55AM

Flash Player 10.2, currently in beta, has just a tenth the CPU consumption of the v10.1 plugin in some cases, says Adobe product manager John Nack. A primary feature of v10.2 is Stage Video, which can shift most of the burden for Flash video to a GPU. GPU acceleration was first introduced in v10.1….