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This is likely it as the AMD CPU has a built-in low power Radeon GPU, and there's a monster Nvidia card for gaming. Do you know how I can check if the discrete
by eloff 4y ago
This is likely it as the AMD CPU has a built-in low power Radeon GPU, and there's a monster Nvidia card for gaming.
Do you know how I can check if the discrete card is being used / drawing power?
- pxc 4y agoI'm pretty sure Intel `powertop` can tell you, but if it can't tell you directly you can measure the difference in power consumption depending on whether the dGPU is enabled in the BIOS.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoI don't know about AMD but nvidia cards have a management interface that provides useful data like temperatures, load and wattage. AMD should have something similar. I wrote a script to query that data and output it in a format compatible with i3status. In case you'd like to see how it works: https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/blob/master/~/.local/bin/nvidia-smi.py https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/blob/master/~/.loca... Please share the changes if you figure out an AMD solution. I'm curious.