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…

Considering that behaviour, I suspect that problem with general power-managment could be the issue. Because how can we explain this workaround which includes recording a screen? I think when screen is being recorder with Nvidia, the GPU goes to some higher power state or something like that, and bec…

I thought about power management too. As far as I remember GSP firmware is exactly here to offload tasks like this. Otherwise driver will manage GPU itself. So basically GSP firmware has a bug which has to be fixed.

I have the same issue. Can we create a bug report?

I think this might be related to Frequent lags and loss of smoothness in KDE Plasma with dual monitors on NVIDIA 3070 Ti (Wayland/X11) - #13 by VladTop46 I found another workaround by forcing the Intel IGPU frequency. Might be related to Poor multi-GPU performance due to CPU-side stalls in gbm_surf…

Hi All, I have filed a bug 5052286 internally for tracking purpose. Shall keep updated on the progress of local repro.

I will add, that few month later, I realised it’s connected to Performance States. If you are interested - search around this topic.

[image] Klusio19: Performance States I noticed that when scrolling the browser the performance mode switches between P8 and P5. May be we can set minimum performance to P5 mode when browser app is focused?

[image] cats: I noticed that when scrolling the browser the performance mode switches between P8 and P5. May be we can set minimum performance to P5 mode when browser app is focused? I don’t know. I just pointed out the direction, which the problem described in the topic comes from.

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

Graphics / Linux Linux

cats January 24, 2025, 10:12pm 16

Workaround which I use:

Disable GSP
Use chrome through xWayland (X11)

Basically any xWayland app works smoother: vscode, chromium, etc.

(tested on: arch, nvidia 565.77-12, Gnome, mutter-performance)

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

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