Hopefully this will help with the slight but undeniably noticeable lags and stutters when minimizing/maximizing windows, bringing up the start menu, and hoovering over drop downs (and just about every other task imaginable, like running simple terminal commands and refreshing a dialogs).

I know that Windows itself is tightly coupled to the integrated Intel video display driver, however according to the NVIDIA GPU Activity system tray widget the majority of running programs are in fact utilizing the RTX GPU. I never once experienced any type of slowdowns like this on a modestly-spec-ed i7 Optiplex at a previous employer from years ago. These slowdowns have been occurring on every XPS I've owned (9560, 9570, and 9700).

For this level of spec and cost an equivalent desktop would be lightning quick and silky smooth, with processing power to spare. I just don't see how next gen laptops are going to even come close to realizing the full potential of Gen 4 PCIe, especially with all the processor throttling from heat.

Welcome to the Dell Community  @samus1 

To better assist you, the members and I would need the exact model number of your laptop/desktop???

1. Go into your BIOS.

Power-on the system and start tapping the F2 key to enter System Setup.

2. In Windows:

Hold down the” Windows “key and tap the “R “key.

Then type msinfo32 and hit enter.

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Hello, it's an XPS 17 9700 i7-10875H 32GB HyperX 1TB Samsung Evo BIOS 1.9.2 Windows 10 21H1.