Why does Window scrolling use so much CPU?

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One of the things I thought Vista was supposed to do was offload some of the processing required for desktop work onto the GPU.

However, simply moving the IE scrollbar up and down causes my cpu usage to rise to around 50-70%. Likewise window resizing, but slightly worse.
 
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