Artboard Performance Issues – Photoshop Freezing on High-End PC (RTX 3060)

I'm experiencing severe performance issues when working with artboards in Photoshop (v26.5.0). Despite having a high-end PC, the software becomes slow or unresponsive when dragging artboards or interacting with them.

System Specs:

• CPU: Intel (8 cores / 16 threads, 3.8GHz)

• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)

• RAM: 32GB

• OS: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit (Build 26100.3775)

• Photoshop Version: 26.5.0 x64 (March 2025 release)

What I’ve Tried:

• Clean Windows reinstall

• Clean GPU driver install (using latest from NVIDIA)

• Tested Photoshop with and without GPU acceleration

• Adjusted energy settings (High Performance mode + 100% CPU usage)

• Adjusted Photoshop performance settings (Cache Levels, Legacy Compositing, etc.)

• Tried with both integrated and dedicated GPU (when switching possible)

• Tested different versions of Photoshop (same issue with v25.x as well)

• Used task managers to confirm system resources are underused (CPU/GPU barely utilized)

Observations:

• Only artboards cause the issue — standard canvas files behave normally.

• GPU sits idle (0% usage) during Photoshop tasks, while other GPU-heavy apps (Premiere Pro, games, etc.) run perfectly.

• Another older PC with weaker specs runs artboards more smoothly, which is confusing.

• Photoshop Beta did not improve the behavior.

• I suspect this may be a compatibility issue between the Photoshop GPU engine and newer Windows/NVIDIA setups.

Please let me know if this is a known issue or if there’s any advanced fix or patch available. I'm open to submitting logs, screen recordings or system info if needed.