# Plexamp Visualization Performance on linux **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Labs\ **Tags:** plexamp\ **Created:** [November 15, 2020, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-visualization-performance-on-linux/653730 "2020-11-15T06:58:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yougotborked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6bbea6/32.png) [@yougotborked](https://forums.plex.tv/u/yougotborked)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-visualization-performance-on-linux/653730/1 "2020-11-15T06:58:31Z")
Hello, Running plexamp 3.3.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 via the appImage. I’m seeing a crazy amount of CPU usage, that increases greatly based on the scaled size of the music visualization window. I’m wondering if it is using the GPU at all? or is it all CPU driven? It gets extremely laggy, even in a small window. Would be great to offload some of that visualization computation to the GPU if possible. CPU % when just looking at album art 570325 localad+ 20 0 1402804 253440 126268 S _ **6.0** _ 0.2 1:20.39 plexamp And when watching a visualization 570339 localad+ 20 0 518552 125312 55968 S _ **623.6** _ 0.1 22:00.83 plexamp 6% to 600%+… ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-visualization-performance-on-linux/653730/2 "2020-11-15T19:13:52Z")
Probably depends on your drivers. Under the hood it’s WebGL/Chromium (which in many cases, does use GPU). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-visualization-performance-on-linux/653730/3 "2021-02-13T19:13:58Z")
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