That's prob caused by crappy config of whatever compositor you tried, compositors use GPU which adds latency, for example Compton using openglx backend is quite

That's prob caused by crappy config of whatever compositor you tried, compositors use GPU which adds latency, for example Compton using openglx backend is quite slow but if you add copyonbuffermesa it gets as responsive as CPU rendering,at least in my case, it obvs depends on the vga