ASUS R9 270 artifacts in Firefox

[rumpeltumskin]

I recently purchased a new ASUS card, the R9 270 and I see a square pattern of graphical artifacts in my Firefox browser window. I RMAed the card back and the replacement does the same thing. I contacted ASUS tech support and they said to use different drivers.

Sigh. Is this a big problem? Is it just Firefox only that is affected. I have not noticed any other problems in other applications. I do not know if i should go for a refund and purchase a different card or just live with the Firefox problem and hope my games stay unaffected?

 

[JDG1980]

Firefox does this on all AMD cards, at least all the ones that use the GCN architecture. I've seen it on both my old 7750 and my current 7870. It's much more common during heavy OpenCL loads (mining), though it can and does happen at other times. Neither card's core temp ever exceeded about 65 degrees even under a full stress testing load. Other users have reported the same thing, multiple times. There is no consistent working fix. Firefox points the finger at AMD, and AMD points the finger at Firefox. It's rather disappointing.

 

[rumpeltumskin]

JDG,

Thanks for the speedy reply. This seems like a minor problem I guess. I can live with the Firefox problem as long as it doesn't spread to my games and other applications. The card was sold at a really good price and I am very happy with its performance.

 

[rainy]

Rumpeltumskin, here is a thread on Bugzilla about it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=837489

 

[el etro]

Try to deactivate GPU acceleration on firefox.

This happens with Nvidia cards too.

 

[rumpeltumskin]

Thanks for the help. I'll try to disable the hardware acceleration.

 

[Red Hawk]

I used to get this issue a lot with my 7870 in Firefox, most obviously when browsing Facebook. However, I haven't noticed it in a while, and even now as I'm typing up this message in Firefox there is no artifacting. I'm using the 13.12 WHQL drivers, so maybe the 13.12 drivers have fixed this. Other than that, the only real solution is to turn off hardware acceleration.

 

[ocre]

Try to deactivate GPU acceleration on firefox.

This happens with Nvidia cards too.

I have never seen it. And firefox is always my default browser on all my PCs.

 

[IEC]

I only see this when mining intensity > 12. Only Firefox and nothing else which makes me think it's Mozilla's fault. Happens on 7790, 7950, 7970/280X, 290/X for me. I think it happened on my GTX 260 and GTX 670 when mining as well...

 

[el etro]

I have never seen it. And firefox is always my default browser on all my PCs.

Its not a particularity of radeon or nvidia cards, but a possible driver/gpu/browser conflict.

I only see this when mining intensity > 12. Only Firefox and nothing else which makes me think it's Mozilla's fault. Happens on 7790, 7950, 7970/280X, 290/X for me. I think it happened on my GTX 260 and GTX 670 when mining as well...

Happened at idle with gtx 670 here, driver past R326.01, resolution 1080p.

 

[Majcric]

I have never seen this either.

 

[rumpeltumskin]

After disabling hardware accel in Firefox I have not seen artifacts all day long. Guess that fixed it for me. Thanks to the guys who replied.