this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2025
27 points (93.5% liked)

Linux Gaming

21186 readers
1306 users here now

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.

This page can be subscribed to via RSS.

Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.

No memes/shitposts/low-effort posts, please.

Resources

WWW:

Discord:

IRC:

Matrix:

Telegram:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
monolalia@lemmy.world
27
New PC, use both GPUs? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Matty_r@programming.dev to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
20 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Hey all, I know that switchable graphics is a thing in laptops where there is usually a single port. But how would you go about it on desktop? Do you put your monitor in the onboard HDMI or on the dGPU port? There are other issues associated with doing it of course, but I thought it might save on power and noise if I used the iGPU as much as possible.

Only have a nvidia GPU at the moment, but hoping to get an AMD 9070 at some point

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure if that's a good idea. Switchable GPUs suck bad enough on laptops, where that's a standard use case. With desktop where that's more exotic, I'd be very surprised if all that works without issues.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've generally had pretty good success with laptops, but they were always Intel + Nvidia with only one HDMI port available.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I've had some pretty bad issues with Intel + Nvidia laptops.

In general, the less main-stream your configuration gets, the more complicated and error-prone it becomes.