High CPU/GPU/Power usage
For some reason the latest update has Teams using between 8% and 25% CPU idling, doing nothing. There is an issue with this update.

74 comments
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Ghislain G Parent commented
Video call and screen sharing kills the pc. I have a Surface that works great all the time except after a couple of minutes into my presentation where my Unit becomes hot and the processor goes almost idle. No such problems with ZOOM.
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Stephen commented
Slows down my machine a lot... Slack is snappy in comparison
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Anonymous commented
Teams draining more battery in my pc and its ranges from 70-80% of battery in 24 hours. Can you fix the issue or post the solution
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Anonymous commented
The fast fan rpm and its noise caused by the high CPU usage of Teams app makes me really nervous during the work. It is occupying 25% or more CPU power constantly despite in idle...please fix ASAP.
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Anonymous commented
Absolutely pathetic lack of progress on this. Instead of closing of the root issue (https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/17219609-teams-uses-600mb-and-is-super-slow) to try and get it off the "Top ideas" list, please put in the work to address the MANY MANY issues with Teams' performance on every platform. It has been YEARS.
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Collaboration_Nightmare commented
Sort it out.
Activity monitor suggesting 700%+ cpu utilisation... (6 core i7 MBP 2019 on Big Sur). Quit Teams and everything returns to normal operation.
It's an appalling implementation of a product that obviously has legs. You must be embarrassed with this surely?
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randomSME commented
Teams with video in a group of only 7 or 8 people burns 5 highly-overclocked i9-7900X CPU-cores, even with GPU-accleration enabled-by-default and a GTX 3090 available to do the lifting.
I have no idea how it even works at all on a standard low-mid-end "corporate laptop".
This is mindblowingly bad optimization.
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Tommiy commented
Anonymous shared this idea · Apr 28, 2018 ·
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Anonymous commented
Cpu usage, especially on older hardware while using video, is extreme and makes the pc unusable.
This must be fixed asap as these performance issues have been reported since the early days and thus is dragging on far far too long. -
Jonathan Que commented
FFS, Slow as Molasses.
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Mabakay commented
Who made the decision to use electron as core architecture?
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Anonymous commented
For the teammate whom I've been using the chat function with the longest - since early 2019 - it's takes quite a long time for chat to load with this person specifically. Chat will stall or hang for a good 5-10 seconds before it'll let me begin to type. I suspect it's because there is a large cache of memory connected to our longstanding thread. This is not at all a problem with teammates whom I "chat" with less often.
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Anonymous commented
I vote this is a priority!
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Peter Norell commented
resource usage is AWFUL
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Simon commented
My Core 5-6200U constantly hits 100% when I have meetings with multiple people. Tried turning settings like hardware acceleration on/off, other drivers but nothing seems to help. When I also share the screen and use Chrome to demonstrate something everything becomes painfully slow.
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Anonymous commented
I find MS Teams CPU usage far higher than those quoted above. Mostly during video calls/screen sharing - but even the idling can be high.
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Maxime Ouellet commented
MS Teams actually consuming x6 upper than Webex Teams, and x10 upper than Jabber on my thinkpad T490
MS Teams = 544.8Mb(11.6%CPU)
WebEx Teams = 84.1MB(1.6%CPU)
Cisco Jabber= 59.9MB(0.2%CPU)and if i start a Visio meeting, MS Teams goes more than 1Go (21.6%CPU), Jabber only 117MB (1.6%CPU)and WebEx Teams 161,7 MB (4.2%CPU)
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Dirk commented
It is extremely high
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Gilbert commented
Even worse..
BR Gilbert -
Fredric Gustafsson commented
Really poor performance!