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April 7, 2022
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Zoom CPU and new webcam

  • April 7, 2022
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Will a newer webcam improve zoom's CPU utilization (when I'm using a virtual background)?  

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    Ray_Harwood
    Community Super Champion | Customer
    Community Super Champion | Customer
    April 7, 2022

    @bluegoose – Sorry, probably not, or very little. Regardless of the camera, the CPU has to do a lot of work to figure out what’s you and what’s not you, and sandwich in the virtual background where needed – probably at 30 frames per second. It’s a lot of computing!

     

    In fact, I’m thinking a newer camera might actually make it worse, especially if it has more resolution (more pixels to look at).