Discord Throttles Nvidia GPU Memory Clock Speeds, Here’s the Fix

If you are an avid Discord user and own an Nvidia graphics card, you may be unknowingly slowing down your performance. NVIDIA (opens in new tab) discovered a bug in the Discord application that prevents the memory of the highest graphics cards from reaching maximum speed.

The latest update to Discord software adjusts the memory clock for Nvidia graphics cards. When the software runs in the background, the graphics card does not reach its maximum memory clock and performance suffers. This is an interesting bug that only affects Nvidia graphics cards. Specifically, it affects the memory subsystem. The chip maker has not identified which models are affected, so we can only assume that all of their graphics cards are affected.