Plasma desktop gets laggy if using wayland?

I can see that my latest nvidia driver version is 470.42.01. After installing plasma-wayland-session I restart my pc and tried to login with wayland. But PC gets stuck at loading screen. And it barely manage to go desktop. And it gets very laggy and stuck in desktop.
Is Plasma usable in wayland?

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.49-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.3 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X550JK v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X550JK v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: X550JK.304 date: 04/16/2019 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 4.0 Wh (97.6%) condition: 4.1/32.6 Wh (12.5%) 
  volts: 14.8 min: 14.8 model: ASUSTeK X550A30 status: Not charging 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-4200H bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Haswell rev: 3 cache: L2: 3 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 22359 
  Speed: 2874 MHz min/max: 800/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2874 2: 2888 
  3: 2901 4: 2994 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 850M] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia 
  v: 470.42.01 bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  Device-3: Realtek USB Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-7:6 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia 
  resolution: 1: 1366x768~60Hz 2: 1600x900~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 21.1.4 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.49-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.31 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: AzureWave driver: ath9k v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 04:00.1 
  IF: enp4s0f1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: IMC Networks type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-5:7 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.93 TiB used: 41.2 GiB (2.1%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS120G2G0A-00JH30 
  size: 111.8 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB 
  size: 931.51 GiB 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Western Digital 
  model: WD My Passport 0827 size: 931.48 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 109.19 GiB used: 15.23 GiB (13.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
  dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 86.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3900 
Info:
  Processes: 195 Uptime: 5m Memory: 7.65 GiB used: 2.24 GiB (29.2%) 
  Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1215 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 
  inxi: 3.3.05

To the best of my knowledge, Plasma Wayland still has some issues with Nvidia. You may have a better experience with x11.

didn’t NVIDIA 470 driver came with wayland support? Also, I have intel+nvidia. Shouldn’t wayland run fine on intel gpu?

KDE is not ready for Wayland, and Nvidia on top of that makes it worse. Stick with Xorg if KDE+Nvidia. GNOME+Nvidia may be working though.

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