Tested: Default Windows VBS Setting Slows Games Up to 10%, Even on RTX 4090

With Windows 11 (and possibly 10) now enabling VBS by default, we ran some tests to see how much it's impacting performance with the RTX 4090 on a Core i9-13900K. Here are the results of our testing.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-vbs-harms-performance-rtx-4090

Created 2y | Mar 14, 2023, 9:20:21 PM


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