For anyone who doesn't know, these are the defaults their driver uses when it detects certain software. Some how we accept this now whereas in the past it would be considered cheating especially in benchmarks (3dmark and NVIDIA.. google it). But that is for another time...

Looking through what little source of their drivers is released you'll find their defaults. Because including it in nvidia-settings is apparently too obvious(?).. Which brings me to the point of this, I expected settings for games and some software, but was quite surprised to see entries for window managers, gnome-shell, etc. Quite bizzare is the rules they are applying _disable_ GSYNC [1].

Is there something I'm missing here? I have hardware that does GSYNC yet their own profile settings force it off. From what I gather of older threads this was to address perceived interactivity especially with the mouse... That's great but it also affects things I use every day. Webbrowser, terminal, etc
Simple test shows 60Hz for example

The HUD on my monitors confirm a higher refresh (165Hz) which is kinda pointless if applications aren't utilizing it.

There used to be a weird quirk/hack in mate where you could enable a benchmark mode within either mate or xfce. It threw up an fps counter of its own but more importantly ran the WM uncapped. For the life of me I can't find it any more though.

[1] - NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.24/nvidia-application-profiles-396.24-rc