Enable WebRender by default on modern Intel desktop gpus
Categories
(Core :: Graphics: WebRender, enhancement)
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| firefox67 | --- | fixed |
People
(Reporter: jrmuizel, Assigned: jrmuizel)
References
(Blocks 1 open bug)
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Comment 1•1 year ago
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This enables WebRender on a small subset of modern Intel gpus.
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Comment 2•1 year ago
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I think you will see a lot of crashes due to Bug 1479795. I used to hit that crash way more easily with WR than without it.
Newer drivers work perfectly, but the one pushed by Windows Update is bugged.
Pushed by jmuizelaar@mozilla.com: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/7998879d6713 Enable WebRender by default on modern Intel desktop gpus. r=kats
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Updated•1 year ago
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Comment 4•1 year ago
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Comment 5•1 year ago
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What are "modern intel desktop GPUs"?
I had a not-that-great experience running WR enabled on Intel Skylake (HD 520) on both - Windows and Linux on a 4K display.
Rendering was pixel-perfect, performance however was not that gread - Firefox felt somehow sluggish on many pages.
So no hard numbers, just a "feel" - maybe pushing 4k pixels at each redraw is a bit tough for those GPUs (this makes me wonder how WR will perform efficiency-wise on battery-powered devices - memory bandwidth is quite costly energy-wise).
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Comment 6•1 year ago
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(In reply to Clemens Eisserer from comment #5)
What are "modern intel desktop GPUs"?
Right now that means Skylake and newer. Very shortly it will be Haswell and newer.
I had a not-that-great experience running WR enabled on Intel Skylake (HD 520) on both - Windows and Linux on a 4K display.
Rendering was pixel-perfect, performance however was not that gread - Firefox felt somehow sluggish on many pages.
So no hard numbers, just a "feel" - maybe pushing 4k pixels at each redraw is a bit tough for those GPUs (this makes me wonder how WR will perform efficiency-wise on battery-powered devices - memory bandwidth is quite costly energy-wise).
Is your experience recent? i.e have you tried since picture caching was enabled? If so can file bugs for any pages you encounter this today?
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Comment 7•1 year ago
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Why is the Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Kabylake GT2) not considered an modern GPU? The UHD Graphics 630 is considered new. I couldn't find any major difference?
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Comment 8•1 year ago
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The current ids used are the desktop class ones. We should probably expand the list.
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Comment 9•2 months ago
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I can confirm that force enable of Webrender on my Lenovo laptop with Intel HD Graphics 620 (Kaby Lake-U GT2) gives me smoother scrolling and better user experience, especially in 4k. Please reconsider Intel HD 620 using Webrender by default.
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