Guys. Can’t anything be done for Krita to still perform well, without consuming too much energy? The program keeps putting fire on my CPU like crazy. All the time, and it does so more than Clip Studio and Photoshop. Krita is only a few hundreds of megs in size. CSP is about a Gig. Photoshop is…

Traditionally we measure power in Watt or energy consumption with something like Watt Hours not by measuring the temperature (admittedly you can calculate watts from temperature but you also have to know other variables like resistance and thermal conductivity (and more)). Otherwise Krita would cons…

[image] Takiro: I don’t say Krita doesn’t draw more energy than others only that your way of measuring it is wrong You can not say that my way of measuring it is wrong, because I am not using watts consumption per second for the comparison, but CPU temperature while doing a specific task : …

Your initial claim is that “Krita consumes tons of energy”, to prove that ton you better have a number that describes energy consumption in absolute values. For now you have only proven that one thing makes your CPU hotter than another thing but how much power that actually is and if it is a ton of …

It is literally how you named your own topic.

So I happen to have found a software which helps with the measurement. And yes the result is in Watts, CPU Power in time. The system itself consumes about 8-12 watts of CPU power. When I run Leonardo, the power goes up to about 14-16 watts. when I run Krita and paint, the power goes up to about …

Out of curiosity, can you test with “Canvas Graphics Acceleration” disabled in “Configure Krita” - “Display” ?

With “Canvas Graphics Acceleration” disabled, it seems to consume at most 20 watts. But would go down up to 16 watts consistently after a while. Also the power used decreased. My CPU heat went around the same as Photoshop, so 75-82°C.

It’s weird that it consumes less power with canvas acceleration turned off since this would mean more work needs to be done on the CPU, because canvas acceleration should offload some work to the GPU, not painting though. Does the tool take GPU usage into account too? Or perhaps Krita uses the CPUs…

Krita consumes tons of energy

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novames00 August 21, 2025, 7:38pm 16

I am aware.

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