# Chrome/Chromium Wayland Performance Regression and DMA-BUF Failure on RTX 4060 Laptop GPU with Driver 580.126.09 (KDE Plasma 6)

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**Created:** [May 31, 2026, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/chrome-chromium-wayland-performance-regression-and-dma-buf-failure-on-rtx-4060-laptop-gpu-with-driver-580-126-09-kde-plasma-6/371832 "2026-05-31T12:33:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/chrome-chromium-wayland-performance-regression-and-dma-buf-failure-on-rtx-4060-laptop-gpu-with-driver-580-126-09-kde-plasma-6/371832/1 "2026-05-31T12:33:07Z")

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## System Information

- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU

- Driver: 580.126.09

- CUDA: 13.0

- Distribution: TUXEDO OS

- Kernel: 6.17.0-119029-tuxedo

- Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma 6

- Session Type: Wayland

- Browser: Google Chrome 148.0.7778.215

- Vulkan: Available and functional

- Hardware: Laptop with Intel iGPU and NVIDIA RTX 4060

## Problem Summary

Chromium-based browsers exhibit severe performance issues under Wayland.

Observed behavior:

- WebGL/WebGPU benchmarks are limited to approximately 1–2 FPS under the default configuration.

- Firefox performs significantly better (~22 FPS).

- Native Vulkan applications such as `vkcube` run smoothly, confirming that the NVIDIA driver and Vulkan stack are functioning correctly.

- Chrome’s GPU process is launched with:

--render-node-override=/dev/dri/renderD128

where:

- renderD128 = Intel GPU

- renderD129 = NVIDIA RTX 4060

Chrome reports:

GL\_RENDERER: ANGLE (Intel, Mesa Intel Graphics)

even though `nvidia-smi` shows Chrome attached to the NVIDIA GPU.

## Additional Testing

### Default Chrome

Chrome launches with:

--ozone-platform=wayland  
–render-node-override=/dev/dri/renderD128

Result:

- WebGL/WebGPU hardware acceleration reports enabled.

- Extremely poor performance (~1–2 FPS).

### Forcing NVIDIA Render Node

Chrome launched with:

--ozone-platform=wayland  
–render-node-override=/dev/dri/renderD129

Result:

Chrome crashes with:

libwayland: importing the supplied dmabufs failed

and

‘–ozone-platform=wayland’ is not compatible with Vulkan

### X11 Workaround

Chrome launched with:

--ozone-platform=x11  
–render-node-override=/dev/dri/renderD129  
–disable-features=Vulkan

Result:

- Browser starts successfully.

- Performance improves to approximately 23 FPS.

- No immediate crash.

## Verification

Native Vulkan test:

vkcube

Result:

- Smooth rendering.

- No stuttering.

- Confirms NVIDIA Vulkan stack is healthy.

## Question

Is this a known issue involving:

- NVIDIA 580.126.09

- Wayland DMA-BUF import

- Explicit synchronization

- Chromium render-node selection

and are there any recommended workarounds or patches available?

I can provide complete chrome://gpu output, nvidia-smi output, and additional logs if required.