After 2 days of continuous use of the brave browser, I finally decided to go back to crome. brave takes a lot of CPU and disk usees that my pc to go crases more than 5 in an hour .yeah it takes a little bit lower ram compared to crome but CPU uses to next level .last 2 days I really love that ad and tracker blocker features but … I hope you guys do something about this over CPU use I want to come back again.
I did some testing in twitch recently (and multiple tabs), found little differences from a clean browser profile. See thread: GPU Process has HIGH CPU Usage
Brave:
Chrome:
This is a from a new browser profile, no extensions for both. Depending on the sites and if you install any extensions cpu usage will go up. From 1 to 1 between Clean Brave and Clean Chrome, there was little difference.
Came to this forum to find about the issue and found this thread. I second this. The new “Brave Today” at the bottom of the new tab page uses a lot of CPU. Thee only work around is to turn it off completely.
Edit: Apparently a new version was released 2 days ago. It supposed to fix the high CPU usage problem. Update your Brave if you haven’t already.
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Turning off “Brave Today” worked for me I think
I have 10 tabs open - all just text and images, no videos or anything. Prior to this fix I was maxing out my CPU with Brave at ~78% now Brave is at 4%
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@bavebowser,
Thank you for letting us know that the fix worked for you.
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Issue popped up again. Now I’m trying to disable things on the new tab page to see if that helps. So far so good but I also thought disabling “Brave Today” worked as well… so we’ll see
Edit:
This issue is definitely not New Tab related. Tried turning everything off and even going blank but still experiencing random CPU and GPU spikes that I have to kill the process to resolve
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Same issue here. Massive CPU spikes seemingly at random (not out of nowhere, but when loading different websites). Hopefully a fix is coming, I switched from chrome precisely to reduce strain on CPU!
I switched as well and I get less CPU usage on an old laptop (Windows 10).
I know it doesn’t solve your problem, but I just wanted to chime in.
I don’t know what your system is (CPU/SSD-Hard disk/Screen Resolution/Internet Access Method) but I’m running an i5-9400F with a Samsung 960 Pro NVMe M.2, WiFi AC via Verizon Hotspot and a 4K monitor and I’m not seeing any more then short peaks of 30% CPU at 3.96GHz. I tried Brave Today without any CPU increase and running several Video windows without an issue. Intel is releasing their 11th generation soon (~March), while I was going to upgrade my i5-9400F to an i9-9900KF I want PCIe 4 for M.2 Samsung 970 Pro and the only way to get that is with a new motherboard/CPU.
I can confirm that disabling the “Brave News” slightly improves performance, but it was becoming unusable. The browser didn’t respond even to regular text input in the address bar. I needed to focus another window before it would update. And this was with only 1 tab open. I even had to push my power button because my entire system stopped responding. Brave is randomly using more than 100% cpu, even now, but at least it’s responding. I’m on Kubuntu 20.04, Ryzen7, GTX 1060 6GB, 16GB ram, and brave with 3 tabs open is currently using 206% cpu… I disabled the built in wallet and the brave news so that it would become usable again.
Use brave 32 bit. Low issues…
Yeah, same for me. I installed Brave and saw that it uses a TON of CPU. I use Firefox, it uses much less CPU and is very secure as Brave. FIX THIS ISSUE ALREADY, BRAVE!!!
Whenever I try to watch…
- live streams of tennis matches on YT
- use WatchParty with a friend (movies, tv)
- T2 (on Amazon, Plex, etc.)
- live stream of the Netflix Slam
- PlutoTv on desktop browser
I see the Brave CPU jump into the high 30s. When it gets even higher, the image can lag and the fan turns on which is annoying, distracting, & loud.
- I don’t use extensions. They only cause more problems in the long run.
- Shields are always enabled.
- Graphics Acceleration, Memory Saver, & Energy Saver are always enabled.
- I’ve seen conflicting advice: turn off hardware acceleration. No, turn on Hardware acceleration. So, I disregard & just keep whatever was there.
How do we fix this given the plethora of now closed threads on this subject dating back to 2020?
Please don’t re-open old threads circa 2022