After Effects chunky/laggy interface?

Hello everyone,
I'm working on after effect / pc since years now, and i've always encountered this "issue" : chunky interface.
Point A is :
The more expanded the interface is (i mean in terms of screens' surface) and the more elements it contains, the more chunky it becomes.
For exemple, I'm used to have my viewport and all the panels on screen 1, and one big panel with the timeline on screen 2. in this case, the interface is chunky. And it goes worst as I multiply the layers in the sequence. Which can be really really disturbing and production breaking for heavy composition.
Point B is :
I was accepting that as a... weakness of after effects, till I did some test on a Mac. And *boum* that doesn't behave that way. That was an imac, with a not powerfull graphic card (default imac gfx).
Point C is :
I have experienced that along the 3 office's computers i had, as on friend's / collegues windows computer
To make it clear : create a new blank project. Set the timeline panel on the second screen as a very low size/scale/screen's surface.
Scale it up, scale it down and see the "display refresh rate" of the resizing.
Now create a layer (anything) and dupplicate it like 150 times.
Rescale the timeline panel to min-max window size multiple times & you'll see what i mean.
To make it simple, in the first case you will have like 30/40 fps, in the second you will have like 5/10 fps. And that become annoying since the interface become laggy.
The problem here is not about processing but about the speed of redrawing the window/panel and it's elements.
SO can anybody tell me if using a solid quadro can overwhelm this windows 2d terrible management weakness?

Szalam thanks a lot, I'd really like to have your feedback. Everything depends from you now Could you please also specify which quadro are you using?
Todd_Kopriva I'm glad adobe had noticed that and had worked on. And I really hope that those improvements are significant, since this kind of behaviour (from the software) is becoming really critical...
especially for a product defined as a professional solution. And especially regarding the fact that it's only about drawing 2D.
Be sure that I will get the trial version as soon as it will be available and give feedback.
Mylenium I could... understand the approximative handling on multi-desktops for public/gaming card. Not for professional card, especially when the overprice is justified by the support and the reliability/optimisation of the drivers.
As said upper, everything depends inter alia on the Szalam answers.

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