The NVIDIA App, a new application that green team officially rolled out in November to modernize and unify its older Control Panel, GeForce Experience, and RTX Experience apps, may result in significantly reduced performance in some of today’s hottest games, according to new benchmarks that have been shared online. Black Myth: Wukong, Game Science’s critically acclaimed action RPG, can run up to 15% worse, it’s said, while Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Baldur’s Gate 3 have also been highlighted, shown with lesser performance in resolutions that include 1080p at various quality settings. NVIDIA replaced GeForce Experience with the NVIDIA App in the GeForce Game Ready 566.36 WHQL driver, which was rolled out on December 5 with support for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Path of Exile 2, and more.
…15% is a massive performance drop caused by a driver or application update. To put it in perspective, the more expensive RTX 4060 Ti is only 18% faster than the base model RTX 4060, according to our GPU benchmarks, running both at 1080p medium settings. Thankfully, the performance decrease isn’t universally 15%, but we tested with the 4060 and saw a 2–12 percent drop in framerates across the five games that we tested.