Android Virtual Manager not using GPU

Question

specs:

I5 3500k
HD 7870 AMD

Well I try using an emulator in Eclipse but it's pretty sluggish even with my i5 3500k. I found out that it only uses one core. So what I did is check the box that said "use Host GPU" to hopefully uses the horse power of my GPU. But when I check MSI burner, my GPU usage is 0%. And one of my CPU cores still uses over 95%. It also has the same performance. How come it's not utilizing my GPU after checking the used Host GPU.

Answer 1

With i5 3500K you can only use ARM based emulator instead of Intel's x86 emulator, which is 10~20 times faster (I think i5 misses these CPU extensions: EM64T, Execute Disable (XD) Bit), see here for x86 emulator support requirement.

For solve your speed issue, I would strongly recommend using Genymotion, it provides fast x86 emulators with Eclipse integration, and I have not encounter any issue with it for the time I've been using it.