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Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by ggnoredo@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hi,

I want to buy a laptop for working and very light gaming on to go. I'm currently looking for Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 with AMD CPU and NVIDIA GPU. I'm going to use Fedora or Arch Linux with i3wm. The problem is I'm not sure if dual gpu setup is going to work or not. All i want to use igpu for all tasks until more power needed, then it needs to switch automatically to dgpu

Is this possible if so is there any good guide about it?

Thanks

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[–] whodoctor11@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have this laptop, but mine has an i7 and an gtx1650. That's a feature that comes with all NVIDIA drivers (I use the open kernel modules) called NVIDIA Optimus. It already switches between GPUs automatically, read the wiki in how to configure it.

However, there's a tool called EnvyControl, with it, you can power off the dedicated GPU in boot to save power, instead of simply put it on standby. If you use that, you will need to reboot for turning it on again.