{"id":183309,"date":"2022-02-10T12:42:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T11:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=183309"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:56:48","slug":"microsoft-teams-cpu-gpu-optimizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-teams-cpu-gpu-optimizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams powers down PC usage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-teams.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Teams<\/a> proved to be a <strong>reliable and popular video conferencing<\/strong> platform. Gaining momentum during the recent pandemic, users showed concern about its performance and the strain it placed on system resources, especially in lower-end devices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Microsoft has been working on <strong>making subtle improvements<\/strong> to the platform\u2019s performance since June 2020. Microsoft\u2019s Principal Group Program Manager, Robert Aichner, recently reported tha<strong>t Teams is already using 50% less power<\/strong> than it was a year and a half ago. In a blog post, Aichner also explained how they achieved these improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team started the process by <strong>creating a suitable framework<\/strong> to test out all the different scenarios pertaining to mainly group video calls and screen sharing. It evaluates this sector first as these features use the most power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal wasn\u2019t only to <strong>improve energy efficiency<\/strong> but also to enhance the overall user experience across all devices. This process also didn\u2019t happen in one go but instead saw minor improvements made over many updates to achieve this result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In summary, Microsoft has <strong>optimized the use of the camera to reduce GPU loads<\/strong>. They also improved the Team\u2019s re-scaling, especially when working with different resolution groups. Finally, the developers also adjusted the GPU-based hardware acceleration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t the end of the line, as the company promised they&#8217;ll continue working on and improving Teams. Microsoft stated that they\u2019ll work to make Teams even more efficient by working closely with CPU and GPU vendors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Teams proved to be a reliable and popular video conferencing platform. Gaining momentum during the recent pandemic, users showed concern about its performance and the strain it placed on system resources, especially in lower-end devices.&nbsp; However, Microsoft has been working on making subtle improvements to the platform\u2019s performance since June 2020. Microsoft\u2019s Principal Group &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-teams-cpu-gpu-optimizations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Teams powers down PC usage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9221,"featured_media":183321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2348],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-183309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionmicrosoft-teams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324415,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183309\/revisions\/324415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183309"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=183309"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=183309"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=183309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}