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Wouldn’t that seriously hurt laptop battery life to use a discrete gpu to render the UI? Or is there someway to tell the OS that a non-discrete gpu is fine?
by withinboredom 4y ago
Wouldn’t that seriously hurt laptop battery life to use a discrete gpu to render the UI? Or is there someway to tell the OS that a non-discrete gpu is fine?
- capableweb 4y agoNo, GPUs are more power efficient than CPUs to render graphics, so it'll save battery.
- withinboredom 4y agoSo, my laptop is dumb for turning off the discrete GPU when I unplug it?
- Chai-T-Rex 4y agoThey didn't say discrete GPU, they said GPUs, which includes integrated GPUs.
- withinboredom 4y agoA game engine will tell the OS to start up the discrete GPU if it is available. This is why I asked the original question. Is there some way to turn that off?
- OvermindDL1 4y agoWhen initializing a GPU context you can specify whether you want the most efficient device, the fastest device, etc, for a GUI app then you would want to pick the most efficient, which is a single flag to pass in, or supply options and let the user pick which one they want.