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randomxusr

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Registered: 2021-08-04

Posts: 30

AMD APU and Nvidia Drivers for TUF FA506IU

I've got an Asus laptop with AMD 4800H /APU and Nvidia 1660ti gpu.

I'm running nouveau and amdgpu drivers. I haven't done anything to configure the drivers in any way.

The drivers were installed when I installed my system about a month ago.

I'm wondering if there's anything I could or should do to confirm they're working correctly and possibly tune them for performance.

One concern I have, is whether I can force the APU to be used more aggressively, as I don't do any gaming on this machine.

Is there something I can do to ensure this is the case? Or is it possible?

Do I need to install the Vulkan software separately?

Do you know whether the Radeon drivers support the APU? Or would it be appropriate to install those?

Last edited by randomxusr (2021-08-18 23:11:42)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,081

Re: AMD APU and Nvidia Drivers for TUF FA506IU

The normal setup of things like these is that the APU does everything by default and the dedicated card only when explicitly invoked.

To test whether things generally work you can use

glxinfo -B #mesa-demos
vulkaninfo #vulkan-tools

for OpenGL and Vulkan respectively

which should show the APU by default and the dedicated GPU when prepended with DRI_PRIME=1

vulkan would be part of the vulkan-radeon package.

You'll probably want to read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME

Last edited by V1del (2021-08-19 02:20:23)