On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 09:20:14AM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 09:08:31PM +0300, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Can someone with enough knowledge elaborate a bit about how graphic > > card performance can or can't influence a browser, please? > > I'm thinking about the X supported ones, with KMS ready and working. > > Is there any visual noticeable difference if one is using a low end > > ATI card versus a more advanced one? Take for example ATI x1300 vs. HD > > 4370 or so. > > Some threads already discussed about CPU hits on browser performance, > > but nothing about GPU. > > Hi, I use the modesetting Xorg driver, which uses the card as a bar > framebuffer (no acceleration) and browser performance is not > affected at all. >
I suspect it is if you don't have accelerated blits or gpu compositing. https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/gpu-accelerated-compositing-in-chrome
