Hope you can help me with this one, and help me to understand, I'm not really to AMD
stuff. I just would like to ask multiple questions regarding with this matter. I have little understanding with this topic, for the many past years Intel
was Known and used by majority of people – I believed. And every time they used Intel CPU's - iSeries
it usually accompanied with Graphics card - NVIDIA
(Whenever I used to view/canvas laptop in the market with the sticker NVIDIA graphics it in).
Here's the scenario: My father bought me a Laptop (No OS installed) using Intel
CPU and no sticker labelled that uses RADEON
just the Intel CPU Sticker that it runs i5
. When I installed Windows 10
and update it, I notice that it installed AMD RADEON GRAPHICS .....
and so on with the description.
I got confused because it downloaded & installed 'INTEL GRAPHICS DRIVER' while updating the drivers. Here's my question:
- Will
AMD
graphics cause conflict with the installedIntel
graphics driver? - When it downloaded
RADEON
, is it not for the default graphic driver? - When
Intel
graphics was installed it has HD control panel butRADEON
doesn't – from the third picture - Are both
Intel
andAMD Radeon
are both enabled by default? - Can I both enable these two if
Radeon
is not enable? - If ever both can be enable will it auto switch if it detected heavy rendering/display – the
Intel HD graphics
andAMD Radeon
– vice versa?
Sample from dxdiag
:
Thank you in advance.
Best Answer
Quite often, laptops will have two graphics chips.
Not unless something goes wrong, in laptops they usually supplement each other. Your Intel graphics will be used for tasks such as browsing the internet, Microsoft office and the like. If you were to boot up a 3D application such as a game, the Intel chip will hand over to your AMD card who is more suited to the task. This behaviour is configurable in the AMD catalyst control center if you wanted the AMD card to be permanently in control (Not needed.)
Yes it is, the model name for AMD graphics begins with AMD RADEON. You will have 2 graphics drivers, one Intel one AMD.
Those are the two tabs, display and render. Display = Used to browse your computer and normal tasks. Render = Used to perform demanding graphical tasks (Gaming etc.)
Forcing AMD/ Enabling automatic switchover
To verify that the switchover from AMD to Intel is automatically occurring, you can do the following (May vary slightly according to versions of Intel Chip):
Now on the AMD side of things:
Now you mentioned in your comment an emulator needs to run on Intel. Add it as an application in the switchable graphics application setting and force it to run in power saving.
If you're having problems beyond this, ensure that both the Intel and AMD drivers (and CCC) are up to their latest versions, they should both pickup each other's existence.