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Usually, the best solution to putting Linux on a dual-GPU nvidia laptop is to stop doing it and go do something else.
by Miraste 6y ago
Usually, the best solution to putting Linux on a dual-GPU nvidia laptop is to stop doing it and go do something else.
- brokenmachine 6y agoIs that common to have dual-GPUs in a laptop? Seems unnecessary to have dual-GPUs, and crazy to have both Nvidia and AMD in the one laptop.
- rurounijones 6y agoOne power hungry / hot one for gaming, one low-power / cool one for when not gaming.
- danilocesar 6y agoFrom my experience with Optimus in the past: The system includes two GPUs, one that sucks for gaming and another one that also sucks for gaming :) It's probably beter nowadays, but I will never consider it again.
- brokenmachine 6y agoBut from two different manufacturers? That's asking for trouble with driver issues.
- Miraste 6y agoNormally the low power gpu is the integrated Intel one that's on all their consumer chips, so it's more adding one gpu than slapping in competing ones. Although it does cause driver issues anyway, hence the thread.
- jeroenhd 6y agoMost laptops with any Nvidia hardware have two GPUs, one less power-hungry GPU integrated into the CPU and one dedicated GPU to play games on when you're connected to/sitting nearby a power outlet. As good as the performance of mobile GPUs is these days, they still suck up a lot of power. I don't think you'll get much work done on the go with a laptop that only has a dedicated AMD/Nvidia GPU.
- fluffything 6y agoThat something else is to use an eGPU if you need to, or to buy a desktop. I mean, the constraints of a laptop and a desktop are as different as that of a car and a plane. Laptops with dual-GPUs are as efficient as both as those car-plane convertibles.