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Firefox Webrender hardware accelerated stuttering a lot on Arch Linux with Nvidia card

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Andres
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When hardware-accelerated Webrender is enabled, the stuttering while watching a video and scrolling is incredible. Not only that, moving tabs to the left or right is laggy too. A workaround to fix this is `gfx.webrender.software` to true. Can anybody explain me why Firefox is using the GPU but is slower than when it's not using it? (Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti, i9 9900k, Arch Linux x64)

When hardware-accelerated Webrender is enabled, the stuttering while watching a video and scrolling is incredible. Not only that, moving tabs to the left or right is laggy too. A workaround to fix this is `gfx.webrender.software` to true. Can anybody explain me why Firefox is using the GPU but is slower than when it's not using it? (Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti, i9 9900k, Arch Linux x64)

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TyDraniu
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That's very possible with NVidia GPU due to its drivers. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535716 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1753237 .

Try to update the nvidia-driver.