OK, this is embarrassing.
The story goes like this: I updated the GPU drivers, but it looks like I actually have not restarted Chrome for ages. For some reason, it was unable to re-enable the GPU layout after updating the driver and, therefore, some of the more advanced CSS3 effects (such as perspective and backface-visibility ) did not work at all, while simple conversions used a backup CPU implementation that also made them look messy on the demo site.
I started using Chrome Canary after updating the driver, so it had no problems with the GPU layout. One instance worked, the other did not, but the version mismatch didn’t matter at all.
Restarting Chrome fixed this problem. And I'm taking a break!
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