Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics: Core I7-8809G with 3.1 GHz Base, 100W TDP

Re:Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics: Core I7-8809G with 3.... by mrec on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:31AM (#16052911)

Is this intended/expected to work on desktop setups with discrete GPUs too? I believe Optimus et al were always laptop-only, but some desktop users might care about heat/power/fan noise.

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Re:Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics: Core I7-8809G with 3.... by DiabloD3 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:11PM (#16053279)

It's expected to work. I've tested it on mine, Haswell i7's own iGPU, and a full sized GCN Radeon, with a game rendering on the Radeon but displaying on the iGPU.

Multi-monitor setup with 2 on the Radeon (normally all 3) and 1 on the iGPU, seemed to work fine. No real visible lag either, from what I could tell with limited testing.

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Re:Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics: Core I7-8809G with 3.... by rasz on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @02:08PM (#16054438)

Works on desktop just fine. For example Pentium G3258 integrated GPU forwarding fullhd over VGA rendered on ancient Nvidia 7900GS (old, but still 2-4x faster than integrated intel). Overhead was ~10-30% compared to direct monitor connection to nvidia card.

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