1320117 - FishIE Tank is slow, should have used dGPU instead of iGPU for hardware acceleration

Status: NEW

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Nguyen Trong Tuan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Build ID: 20161104212021

Steps to reproduce:

Visit FishIE Tank (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/testdrive/demos/fishietank/), and choose to display 1000 fish.


Actual results:

~36-37 fps.


Expected results:

60fps; like with Chrome/Opera/Vivaldi, Internet Explorer/Edge,...

On a laptop computer with 2 graphic cards, Firefox should always use dedicated GPU (Nvidia, AMD) for hardware acceleration. It currently uses only integrated GPU (Intel), so slower fps in FishIE Tank and sluggish in normal web browsing as a whole.

Comment 1

[Nguyen Trong Tuan]

Application Basics
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Name: Firefox
Version: 50.0
Build ID: 20161104212021
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Comment 2

[Nguyen Trong Tuan]

Attachment: Firefox

Comment 3

[Nguyen Trong Tuan]

Attachment: Internet Explorer

Comment 4

[Loic]

I reported the same issue a long time ago, Firefox selects the iGPU instead of the dGPU to render WebGL on dual graphics.
See another report, bug 865138.

Comment 5

[Hani Yacoub, Desktop QA]

Managed to reproduce this issue on Firefox Nightly 95.0a1, Firefox Beta 94.0b2 and on Firefox 93.0 on Windows 10 x64, macOS 11.4 and on Ubuntu 20.04.
I'm not sure how relevant this bug is now after 5 years, changing the severity to S3.