NVIDIA App will allow you to manage graphics card resources between applications.

NVIDIA has quietly added a new feature to the NVIDIA App that allows you to manage GPU priority between foreground and background applications. This setting allows you to customize the resource allocation. GPU Depending on which app the user considers the primary one. By default, an 80/20 ratio is used, with 80% of the priority allocated to foreground apps and the remaining 20% ​​to background tasks.

Users also have access to additional modes. The “Foreground Priority” setting sets a 90/10 distribution, giving greater priority to the foreground application. In Custom mode, you can manually adjust the ratio up to 95/5. This allows you to prioritize a game or other program in the foreground even more, while simultaneously reducing the share of background processes. This is precisely what we’re talking about when prioritizing resources. GPU, and not about a direct increase in the performance of the video card by a fixed percentage.

The first reports of the new setting came from RTX 5090 owners, but some RTX 5080 users have also discovered the feature. Availability is currently uneven: some NVIDIA graphics card owners don’t see the option, and one RTX 5080 user reported being able to…