Poor performance on Apple Silicon (M1 Pro) when compared to other wayland compositors

[lacamar]

Hyprland version

v0.48.1

Regression

Possibly, performance subjectively feels worse than it used to but I have not benchmarked previous versions to compare.

Describe the bug

Glmark2 performance is degraded in Hyprland when compared to Sway and DWL. Hyprland had a score of 857, Sway had a score of 3164, and DWL 3025. This places Hyprland's benchmark at roughly ~30% of the other compositors. All compositors were run with default configurations for the benchmark. Running the benchmark with my normal config, environment, and applications yielded a score of 588.

From a subjective experience combined with the Hyprland debug FPS overlay, the desktop rarely reaches 60fps on both screens when running with my normal settings that include blur and animations. When changing workspaces or launching layer applications there are sharp drops in framerate.

Reproduction steps

1. Boot Asahi Linux (Fedora 42) and log into a tty
2. Ensure Hyprland (v0.48.1), sway (v1.10.1), and dwl (v0.7) configs are default
3. Run a compositor
4. Run glmark2-wayland
5. Compare scores

System info and config

I have attached the output from hyprctl systeminfo -c and hyprctl monitors, the glmark2-wayland benchmarks for each compositor, the environment variables active for the tests, and glxinfo -B output.
Additional logs are attached for my normal use of Hyprland.

glmark2-wayland-dwl.txt
glmark2-wayland-hyprland.txt
glmark2-wayland-sway.txt

systeminfo.txt
monitors.txt
env.txt
glxinfo.txt

systeminfo_normal-use.txt
glmark2-wayland-hyprland_normal-use.txt
env_normal-use.txt

[oiiiiiiii]

I believe this is due to GPU accelleration not working anymore for some reason. I'm on M2 Asahi and when I start an app that usually makes use of the GPU (like wezterm) I get these warnings:

libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information

libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

And judging by the performance the GPU is not used, but CPU rendering. Scrolling in Firefox is pretty laggy for example. When switching to Gnome this warning does not appear, and performance is much better.

[oiiiiiiii]

Can any of you confirm that this issue also occurs on the most recent release v0.50.1? The issue guidelines, understandably, ask to verify with the latest release, but my package manager ships an older version. But if not I can try to build from source when I find the time

[lacamar]

I can confirm I'm experiencing the issue on the git package, commit 00da445. Slightly newer than v0.50.1

[oiiiiiiii]

Thanks, I also used the most recent release now from a copr repo and created a new discussion here. If you think I missed something please let me know, and if you have that same issue consider upvoting it. With 5 upvotes we would be allowed to ping someone from the hyprland team so they will have a look at it

[lacamar]

Thanks, I have upvoted your discussion post

[gulafaran]

#11087