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Stuart Lynn
Stuart Lynn

Reputation: 31

Browsers don't seem to use GPU for WebGL in Arch Linux with Nvidia Driver

I am running Arch Linux (EndeavourOS) with a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080. Hardware acceleration seems to work when I run programs like games from steam. I get good frame rates for them but WebGl performance in Firefox, Chrome and Brave are all very slow.

Additionally when I run nvidia-smi, I see the non-browser processes like games appear in the process list but no browsers even when they are running WebGL.

So I guess my questions are

  1. Should the browsers appear in the nvidia-smi process list if they are using the nvidia GPU?
  2. If they aren't in that list does that mean they are not using the Nvidia GPU? 3 If so how do I get the browsers using the Nvidia GPU?

For more info: here is gist of the output of chromes about://gpu in a gist

I am running nvidia driver version 460.67

I am not using bumble or any GPU switching tools, just straight Nvidia.

I have tried playing around with settings in Chrome and Firefox but to no effect.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2080

Answers (1)

Pablo Arduino
Pablo Arduino

Reputation: 11

AFAIK, hardware WebGL support in chrome was limited, you need to investigate further on that, i think there was a blacklist or some sort of limitation you can change. About firefox, recently they've enabled hw WebGL support, but you need to be running above version 75 and exclusively on Wayland.

Upvotes: 1

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