When Nvidia changed the longstanding GeForce Experience App with a brand-new, unified Nvidia App last month, the majority of GPU owners most likely kept in mind the refresh and rebranding with absolutely nothing more than bemusement (though the brand-new absence of an account login requirement was a good enhancement). Now, screening reveals that running the brand-new app with default settings can cause some considerable frame rate dips on numerous high-end video games, even when the app’s sophisticated AI functions aren’t being actively utilized.

Tom’s Hardware kept in mind the efficiency dip after checking out reports of associated issues around the web. The website’s screening with and without the Nvidia App set up validates that, throughout 5 video games working on an RTX 4060, the app minimized typical frame rates by around 3 to 6 percent, depending upon the resolution and visual quality level.

The website’s determined frame rate drop peaked at 12 percent for Assassin’s Creed Mirage performing at 1080p Ultra settings; other checked video games (consisting of Baldur’s Gate 3 Black Myth: Wukong Flight Simulator 2024and Stalker 2revealed a smaller sized drop at a lot of settings.

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This is a substantial efficiency effect for an app that just runs silently in the background for a lot of users. The effect is approximately equivalent to that of going from a state-of-the-art RTX 4070 Ti Super to an older RTX 4070 Ti or 4070 Super, based upon our earlier screening of those cards.