After downloading the nvidia proprietary drivers and rebooting all graphical "effects" are extremely slow. E.g the bouncy icon showing a program is launching and launching the "application dashboard" are not frozen, but it is like it is moving at 3-5fps. Launching nvidia settings and checking and unchecking the "sync to vblank" option under OpenGL Settings completely solves the problem for the duration of the session. Rebooting requires going through this same process over and over. Keeping this option toggled off for reboot does not solve the problem either. No idea what the issue is here and I'm sure I'm going to get a "its nvidia proprietary we can't fix it", but I don't have this issue using other distros with plasma, so I don't think it is totally an nvidia issue.

Thank you very much for reading this, I hope an answer becomes available.