By popping open the sidebar, users can access GX control and limit how much memory and the CPU usage their system is allocating to the web browser. For all this and more, Opera GX has recently scored a 2019 Red Dot award for its design.Opera GX is an offshoot of the brand’s regular browser that adds in performance turning controls, which should be somewhat familiar to PC gamers. It is also compatible with Razer Chroma support. The browser also contains a homepage with handy shortcuts to platforms and sites that often go hand-in-hand with gaming, including YouTube, Reddit and Twitch (which GX has supported by default since its launch). This feature is found in the browser's GX Control section, which also has CPU and RAM limiters for similar reasons.

Opera asserts that it is particularly useful for those with slower or less reliable connections. content-streaming) also being used while gaming.

Alternatively, it can be used to limit other uses of the internet (e.g. The limiter can be used to ensure a constant flow of data during gameplay. It can be set in a range from 64 kilobytes per second (KB/s) to 25 megabytes/s (MB/s), although it comes at 1MB/s by default. The most important tweak contained in Opera GX may be its network bandwidth limiter. They have been refined over the 9 updates this variant has seen since its early-access release in June 2019. Besides this, Opera GX also has a number of practical functions and features directed at the enhancement of this area of online gaming. Accordingly, even its design and color-scheme have been chosen to match this use-case: even its feedback meter has little 8-bit-looking hearts.

Opera has developed GX for those who like to game in-browser.

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