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loki89

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Registered: 2015-02-01

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New kind of hybrid graphics with FX APU?

I've seen a pretty nice and reasonably cheap laptop, Lenovo Z50-75 (with FX-7500 CPU). From what I've searched so far, I think it has an integrated R7 gpu and another R7 gpu, dedicated. Can't really find much info about this though. I know fglrx is quite troublesome on itself, but never really took a good poke at it, since I currently own a nVidia Optimus laptop and only experienced with bumblebee, nvidia-prime and switched to nouveau with prime and reclocking experiments.
The problem is I didn't find any clear specs on how the gpu (or gpus) is driven and if it's anything similar to prime or at least functional on gnu/linux systems. Anyone got any clue on how this works?

R00KIE

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Re: New kind of hybrid graphics with FX APU?

I'd say that unless you can try before you buy or you are sure things will work, stay away from it. I haven't had to deal with hybrid graphic yet but anything to do with graphics is a pain if it doesn't work well.

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