Adobe has recently delivered a beta version of Flash 10.1 that enables GPU acceleration under the OS X operating system. This is a feature that the Windows operating system has had for several months now. AnandTech takes the new beta flash player for a spin to see how much it truly helps, and finds some interesting results.

While hardware acceleration doesn’t appear to work on Hulu’s website, there’s definitely an improvement in CPU utilization when scaling to full screen. YouTube is a different story however. CPU utilization is cut roughly in half.

via Adobe Enables Flash GPU Acceleration in OS X, We Test It @ AnandTech.