Brave always returns tier 0

[t-mullen]

Brave Browse on Intel 2019 Macbook Pro (Ventura 13.2) always reports tier 0.

Chrome on the same machine correctly reports tier 3.

Brave:

{
    "wasm": true,
    "simd": true,
    "webgl": true,
    "webgl2": true,
    "offscreen": true,
    "browser": {
        "name": "chrome",
        "version": "112.0.0",
        "os": "Mac OS",
        "type": "browser"
    },
    "gpu": {
        "fps": 14,
        "gpu": "amd radeon pro 5300m",
        "isMobile": false,
        "tier": 0,
        "type": "BENCHMARK",
        "hwaccel": false
    },
    "supportedInBrowserList": true
}

Chrome:

{
    "wasm": true,
    "simd": true,
    "webgl": true,
    "webgl2": true,
    "offscreen": true,
    "browser": {
        "name": "chrome",
        "version": "112.0.0",
        "os": "Mac OS",
        "type": "browser"
    },
    "gpu": {
        "fps": 130,
        "gpu": "amd radeon pro 5300m",
        "isMobile": false,
        "tier": 3,
        "type": "BENCHMARK",
        "hwaccel": true
    },
    "supportedInBrowserList": true
}

Hardware acceleration is enabled in Brave and confirmed to work on multiple sites.

[YanDevDe]

For me, it shows correctly under MacBook Apple Silicon by using Brave as well:

{
  "fps": 556,
  "gpu": "apple m1 max",
  "isMobile": false,
  "tier": 3,
  "type": "BENCHMARK"
}

[twocaretcat]

idk why this would be different between Brave and Chrome, but certain GPUs/drivers are blocklisted by Chromium if they are determined to be unreliable, meaning the GPU may not be used even if HW acceleration is enabled. You can go to brave://gpu/ to view the status of various graphics features:

If HW acceleration is disabled, you can force enable it at your own risk by going to brave://flags and setting the #ignore-gpu-blocklist flag to enabled: