Hey just wanted to provide an update since i have been experimenting with this alot:
I was able to get this issue to happen with my vive pro >>>>1<<<< and 4090 now.
Prior to this, i had always used the pro 2 wired and the pro 1 wireless... but when switching to pro 1 wired, the same stutters every 5 second and laggy tracking starts happening.
The first time i loaded in with the pro 1, motion smoothing was on as well, and this made everything 10x worse..
After turning it off and then restarting steamvr, its back to the standard 5 second stutter and laggy tracking.
But its rather interesting... the pro 1 doesn't have the same DSC limitations as the pro 2, so must be something else with the vive driver causing the issue for 4090?
Also interesting that wireless doesnt have the issue.. I would wager that wireless also doesnt have the issue for pro 2 as well.. will need to try this next.