Stutering and low fps scrolling in browsers on Wayland when GSP firmware is enabled

When GSP firmware is enabled on Wayland session, scrolling in all browsers (Google Chrome, Brave-chromium based, Firefox) has stuttering and generally low fps. (My monitor has 170Hz and the scrolling is dropping down to around 90-100FPS) (Everything is recorded and visible on the videos, please make sure to watch them, to fully understand the problem).
Tested on:
*open-module driver with GSP ON (since I can’t disable GSP with open module) (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EadKGwoSpO8)

*proprietary driver with GSP ON (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RNl45OVw_g)

*proprietary driver with GSP OFF (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x-uB-iZrOA)

WIth open-module driver, and proprietary driver with GSP ON, there is stuttering, and low fps when scrolling in all 3 browsers. HOWEVER, when at the same time OBS is launched and is actively recording (or other screen capturing software), the scrolling becomes almost perfect again. And as soon, as the recording is stopped, it begins to stutter again.

With proprietary driver with GSP OFF, scrolling is almost perfect no matter if recording with OBS or not.

Driver: 560.35.03 (565.57.01 tested on 26 October 2024 - no difference)
Cuda: 12.6
GPU: GTX 1660Ti
OS: Latest Arch Linux
DE: KDE Plasma 6.2.2

EDIT: Uploaded nvidia-bug-reports logs for all 3 situations described
nvidia-bug-report-proprietary-GSP_ON.log.gz (1.4 MB)
nvidia-bug-report-proprietary-GSP_OFF.log.gz (1.3 MB)
nvidia-bug-report-open-module.log.gz (889.5 KB)

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Can confirm, using Hyprland here (on default GPU settings mostly) and been constantly rolling back to nvidia-dkms 560.35.03-2 every update since Chromium apps stutter. Using testufo.com my browser framerate drops from 144fps to 24fps after the updates. Turning off hardware acceleration helps in some apps (eg Chrome, but not Discord), but distorts colors heavily. Would love a fix so I can stop rolling back updates.

Did I understand right, that on 560.35.03-2 driver with GSP firmware enabled, you DO NOT experience problems?

Just checked, GSP version is N/A currently on the old driver that does work. Didn’t check whether it’s enabled in the new version

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Facing the same issue on 565.57.01, I hads since introducing explcit sync version till now. my internal screen is using intel iGPU so it’s not facing the issue but my external HDMI is always using nvidia and FPS there drops from supposed 60 to 30 and hovers to 40 sometime but most of the time at 30 and the mouse movement feels slow and Youtube drops alot of frames. When I disable GSP firmware This issue gets resolved but I want to use open kernel drivers since the closed ones will soon become legacy and I’m facing the same issue there and I can’t disable GSP firmware at all on the open kernel ersion (I know it’s by design).

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