Subject: GPU Acceleration Issue in Chrome Running Inside Docker

[shlomo290290]

I am currently trying to use GPU resources in Google Chrome running inside a Docker container but have encountered issues. When I run nvidia-smi inside the container, it correctly detects my GPU, along with the driver and CUDA versions. However, when I check chrome://gpu, I see that Chrome is running with software acceleration only instead of utilizing the GPU.

Additionally, when I attempt to initialize Chrome with GPU support using the relevant flags, I receive an initialization error.

I would appreciate any insights from anyone who has faced this issue before. Specifically:

Are there specific node-chrome or driver versions that support GPU usage with selenium?
Are there any additional configurations required to enable GPU acceleration properly?
Here is my setup:

OS: Fedora

GPU: NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB
NVIDIA Driver Version: 565.57.01
CUDA Version: 12.7
Docker Base Image: selenium/node-chrome:latest
Any advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

[VietND96]

Do you add browser arg --disable-gpu in client binding while create RemoteWebDriver?

[shlomo290290]

no
i want gpu usage

[VietND96]

I understand. I just read back old tickets, and saw this #340 (comment)
Probably it requires VirtualGL

[shlomo290290]

no it didn't work too

[VietND96]

Okay, those examples in that ticket was years ago, so I think it is not up-to-date now.
I also read through this https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit?tab=readme-ov-file
As you confirmed that GPU is detected correctly when checking in container, just issue with Chrome didn't accelerate it.
Let me try to check further, since this is also new to me.

[shlomo290290]

yes 'nvidia-smi' detects the gpu just the acceleration didn't work