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by znpy 1346 days ago
Does the gpu have a physical mux though?

I usually don’t even consider laptops with dedicated nvidia graphics because dealing with nvidia drivers is more hassle than gain (I don’t do anything gpu-intensive and the intel gpu is enough for me).

A physical mux means you can effectively shut down the dedicated graphics but still drive outputs with the intel embedded gpu. And save battery.

Can that laptop do that?

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The laptop I have does have a "MUX switch" but is controlled in software. As far as I understand, the benefits of the MUX switch are primarily to graphics performance when working with the discrete GPU. At any rate, my laptop (G14 2022) is all AMD and I haven't had any trouble with the amdgpu drivers on recent Linux kernels.