is m3 a tad slower than m2?

Is it just me or does m3 seem noticeably slower than m2 - even things like starting dolphin or konqueror

Seemed to go faster for me, the boot up got X going very aggressively.
I still see some of same bugs from 12.1 M2 though.

Is something getting logged? May be you’re on nv graphics driver rather than Nouveau?
I have AMD/ATI Radeon using x86_64.

Yep. It looks slower to me. At least on boot up. Haven’t done much in the operations yet.