High CPU usage while playing 1080p60 videos and videocalls

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Hello. I have a problem using KDE Manjaro, I’m new in this distro and I don’t know why is too high the CPU usage playing videos on Youtube, google meet.

My specs:
12 GB RAM
1 TB HDD (dual boot with Windows 10 - Manjaro has been installed in 100 GB partition)
CPU: quad core AMD A12-9720P RADEON R7 12 COMPUTE CORES 4C+8G (-MT MCP-)

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.60-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=315bcc7b-952e-4f82-ae58-ee9c499fa0b2 rw quiet
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.6 tk: Qt v: 5.15.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Laptop 15-cd0xx v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8354 v: 37.35 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI
    v: F.29 date: 07/01/2020
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 5.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 5.2/5.2 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 13.2 min: 11.6 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: charging cycles: 46
Memory:
  RAM: total: 11.14 GiB used: 3.1 GiB (27.8%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges
    required.
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD A12-9720P RADEON R7 12 COMPUTE CORES 4C+8G bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Excavator level: v3 built: 2015 process: GF 28nm
    family: 0x15 (21) model-id: 0x65 (101) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x600611A
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: enabled cache: L1: 320 KiB desc: d-4x32
    KiB; i-2x96 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 2x1024 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2429 high: 2695 min/max: 1400/2700 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2296 2: 2342
    3: 2695 4: 2385 bogomips: 21569
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acc_power aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2
    bmi1 bmi2 bpext clflush cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid cr8_legacy
    cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fma4
    fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs lahf_lm lbrv lm lwp mca
    mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nodeid_msr
    nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter
    pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse
    pse36 ptsc rdtscp rep_good sep skinit smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2
    sse4a ssse3 svm svm_lock syscall tbm tce topoext tsc tsc_scale vgif
    vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wdt xop xsave xsaveopt
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT vulnerable
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
    disabled, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Wani [Radeon R5/R6/R7 Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-3 code: Volcanic Islands
    process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-19 ports: active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1
    empty: none bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:9874 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Topaz XT [Radeon R7 M260/M265 / M340/M360 M440/M445 530/535
    620/625 Mobile] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    arch: GCN-3 code: Volcanic Islands process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-19 pcie:
    gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 4 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8
    bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6900 class-ID: 0380
  Device-3: Realtek HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-1.3:3 chip-ID: 0bda:58eb class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: amdgpu
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3286x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 869x285mm (34.21x11.22")
    s-diag: 915mm (36.01")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-0 pos: primary,top-left model: Sony TV
    serial: <filter> built: 2010 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 30 gamma: 1.2
    size: 1600x900mm (62.99x35.43") diag: 1836mm (72.3") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 mapped: eDP pos: bottom-r model: BOE Display 0x06a4
    built: 2015 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101 gamma: 1.2
    size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1366x768 min: 640x480
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon R7 Graphics (carrizo LLVM 14.0.6 DRM 3.42
    5.15.60-1-MANJARO) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.6 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1 chip-ID: 1002:9840
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Family 15h Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:09.2 chip-ID: 1022:157a
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.60-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8723DE 802.11b/g/n PCIe Adapter
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8723de v: N/A modules: rtw88_8723de
    pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:d723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-3: KYE Systems (Mouse Systems) GF3000F Ethernet Adapter type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid bus-ID: 2-3:2 chip-ID: 0458:6001 class-ID: 0301
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth 4.2 Adapter type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-1.4:4 chip-ID: 0bda:b009 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 383.6 GiB (41.2%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 4C scheme: GPT
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: hp model: DVDRW DA8AESH rev: XH6M
    dev-links: cdrom
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
    rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r state: running
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 95.57 GiB size: 93.51 GiB (97.85%) used: 17.74 GiB (19.0%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 label: N/A
    uuid: 315bcc7b-952e-4f82-ae58-ee9c499fa0b2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%) used: 29.9 MiB
    (11.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A uuid: AC68-0B20
  ID-3: /run/media/studio/C27A1A857A1A767F raw-size: 822.66 GiB size: 822.66
    GiB (100.00%) used: 365.83 GiB (44.5%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda3
    maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A uuid: C27A1A857A1A767F
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
    label: N/A uuid: N/A
  ID-2: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 980 MiB fs: ntfs label: Windows RE
    tools uuid: 9CA87DFFA87DD86A
  ID-3: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 12.05 GiB fs: ntfs label: RECOVERY
    uuid: E80246AF02468314
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Advanced Micro Devices Root Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0438:7900 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-1.3:3 info: Realtek HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: Video
    driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
    chip-ID: 0bda:58eb class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 1-1.4:4 info: Realtek Bluetooth 4.2 Adapter type: Bluetooth
    driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA
    chip-ID: 0bda:b009 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 2-3:2 info: KYE Systems (Mouse Systems) GF3000F Ethernet Adapter
    type: Mouse,Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0458:6001 class-ID: 0301
  Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 59.8 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
  GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 59.0 C device: amdgpu temp: 57.0 C
Info:
  Processes: 244 Uptime: 6h 46m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 251
  default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.1 clang: 14.0.6
  Packages: 1363 pm: pacman pkgs: 1353 libs: 353 tools: pamac pm: flatpak
  pkgs: 10 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: yakuake
  inxi: 3.3.21

Thanks for your help!

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:+1: Welcome to Manjaro! :+1:

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Welcome to the forum! :wave:

Sounds like you do not have hardware video acceleration setup in your browser.

Please see:

EDIT: :ninja: 'd by @Olli :laughing:

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Thanks, I’ve added the needed information.

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Some information is missing:

  • Which app do you use for playing video?

  • Did you enable hardware acceleration?

  • What is the output of mhwd -li

  • Check pacman -Q mesa amdvlk

You need to enable SWAP

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  • Apps where I have lag: Firefox, Microsoft Edge. Sites with lag: Google Meet, Twitch, YouTube.
  • Yeah! I’ve enabled it.
  • Output:
> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!

pacman -Q mesa amdvlk                                                                          ✔ 
mesa 22.1.6-1
error: el paquete «amdvlk» no se ha encontrado
  • Could you tell me, please, how to enable SWAP?
    and what is that?
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See Swap - ArchWiki

There is normally no reason to use that (except in rare specific use cases) as the built-in amdgpu kernel driver is almost always superior and recommended.

See AMDGPU - ArchWiki

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