Compositor effects lag with NVIDIA graphic card

Hello.
today I had to format my pc and in the new installation the compositor effects are laggy.
In the live environment this does not happen.
I point out that I had also encountered this problem in the previous installation but I do not remember how I had managed to solve it.

Here is a video of the problem. The weird effect of the top bar is only in the video.
The place where it is most visible is on the latte bar.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ioBxYVc3c_9OJcRrUDU2ed6ww8qvNlwx/view

garuda-inxi
System:
Kernel: 5.16.8-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=995b984e-0171-4ed2-adff-0bc76cdf57e5 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
resume=UUID=3aa21218-c4c0-4f6c-b01d-a03bd160addb loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.24.0 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11
vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG MAXIMUS XII FORMULA v: Rev 1.xx
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2301
date: 07/13/2021
Battery:
ID-1: hidpp_battery_0 charge: 86% condition: N/A volts: 4.0 min: N/A
model: Logitech G502 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Mouse type: N/A
serial: <filter> status: Charging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i9-10900K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet Lake
family: 6 model-id: 0xA5 (165) stepping: 5 microcode: 0xEE
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 10 tpc: 2 threads: 20 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 640 KiB desc: d-10x32 KiB; i-10x32 KiB L2: 2.5 MiB desc: 10x256 KiB
L3: 20 MiB desc: 1x20 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 5118 high: 5321 min/max: 800/5300 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: performance cores: 1: 4992 2: 5009 3: 5153
4: 5134 5: 5311 6: 5175 7: 5116 8: 5216 9: 5157 10: 5078 11: 5000
12: 4941 13: 4996 14: 5013 15: 4994 16: 5150 17: 5304 18: 5300 19: 5321
20: 5012 bogomips: 147994
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia
v: 510.47.03 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1b81 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-2.2:10 chip-ID: 046d:082d
class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 7280x1440 s-dpi: 109 s-size: 1696x333mm (66.8x13.1")
s-diag: 1728mm (68")
Monitor-1: DP-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92
size: 530x300mm (20.9x11.8") diag: 609mm (24")
Monitor-2: DP-2 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92
size: 531x299mm (20.9x11.8") diag: 609mm (24")
Monitor-3: DP-4 res: 3440x1440 hz: 50 dpi: 110
size: 797x334mm (31.4x13.1") diag: 864mm (34")
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2
v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 510.47.03 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:06c8 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GP104 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f0
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-2.2:10 chip-ID: 046d:082d
class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Device-4: Generalplus USB Audio Device type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-4:7 chip-ID: 1b3f:2008
class-ID: 0300
Device-5: RODE Microphones RODE NT-USB type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 19f7:0003
class-ID: 0300
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.8-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.45 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:06f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Aquantia AQC107 NBase-T/IEEE 802.3bz Ethernet [AQtion]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: atlantic v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 04:00.0
chip-ID: 1d6a:07b1 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-3: Intel Ethernet I225-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igc v: kernel
port: N/A bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:15f3 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-14:15 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-H RAID driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: 4020
bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:06d6 rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.62 TiB used: 16.19 GiB (1.0%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Sabrent model: N/A
size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: RKT343.4
temp: 28.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB
size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB
size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q
ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB
size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q
ID-5: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 type: USB model: NC Gameband size: 7.36 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter>
rev: 0200 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 919.29 GiB size: 919.29 GiB (100.00%)
used: 16.19 GiB (1.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 576 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 919.29 GiB size: 919.29 GiB (100.00%)
used: 16.19 GiB (1.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 919.29 GiB size: 919.29 GiB (100.00%)
used: 16.19 GiB (1.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 919.29 GiB size: 919.29 GiB (100.00%)
used: 16.19 GiB (1.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 34.28 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 31.16 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 27.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 32 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
Processes: 485 Uptime: 5m wakeups: 9 Memory: 31.16 GiB
used: 3.93 GiB (12.6%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1418 lib: 324 Shell: fish v: 3.3.1
default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.12
Garuda (2.5.4-2):
System install date:     2022-02-13
Last full system update: 2022-02-13
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       NetworkManager
Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
Snapshots:               Snapper
Failed units:

UPDATE:
The problem seems to have almost solved itself after putting the same refresh rate on all screens and then putting it back up.
If you have any advice, however, they continue to be appreciated.

Different refresh rate on different screens tends to increase GPU workloads and even not only in Linux. For example see
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/277945/dual-monitor-setup-with-different-refresh-rates-14/

So, it is preferable to keep same refresh rates on all monitors.

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There continues to be a slight lag even with the same refresh rate on all monitors but it is not that noticeable

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