Is there Any Benefit keeping on board Graphics enabled with Discrete card enabled on my Ryzen 7 7700X?

[BikemanI7]

Is there any benefit to keeping The Graphics in the Processor enabled with a Discrete Card also installed.    ((Card is Radeon 7800XT OC 16GB))   Ryzen 7 7700X,  Air Cooled inside a Lian Li Lancool 216 ARGB,  ((Currently only 1 Monitor in use,  but in future may get a 2nd Monitor for first time, i just don't know when on that at this point))

 

Thank you all in Advance

 

**Still sorta a noob with Hardware aspect of Computers and a little on Software**

 

[Average Nerd]

4 minutes ago, BikemanI7 said:

Is there any benefit to keeping The Graphics in the Processor enabled with a Discrete Card also installed. 

Performance wise, no difference.

The integrated GPU is useful when your demands for more displays exceed your dGPU, or you need to do troubleshooting if the dGPU isn't working.

[YoungBlade]

In general, it doesn't make much difference. There are some applications that can leverage the iGPU as free extra compute.

 

Intel has a feature called QuickSync that is supported by Adobe, DaVinci Resolve, and some other creative apps to provide accelerated video encoding and decoding, for example.

 

However, the ones compatible with AMD are not common.

[Dedayog]

9 minutes ago, BikemanI7 said:

Is there any benefit to keeping The Graphics in the Processor enabled with a Discrete Card also installed.    ((Card is Radeon 7800XT OC 16GB))   Ryzen 7 7700X,  Air Cooled inside a Lian Li Lancool 216 ARGB,  ((Currently only 1 Monitor in use,  but in future may get a 2nd Monitor for first time, i just don't know when on that at this point))

 

Thank you all in Advance

 

**Still sorta a noob with Hardware aspect of Computers and a little on Software**

 

What use case?  Gaming? No.  Productivity apps?  Some, maybe.

 

Also, if you have lowish system RAM, I would disable it.  It reserves RAM for itself that may not be available to use otherwise. Again, if you are nearing the limits of your system RAM it makes sense.

[BikemanI7]

Well currently i have 32GB DDR 5 5600mhz Ram

 

Gaming i do on system most of the time,  occasionally some Word Docuements and Excel,   typically don't do much video editing all that often, have at times recorded a little gameplay off and on, and experimented with ClipChamp,  but other than that not much.      

 

Did transfer some old DVD-R Recorded discs to Desktop with Hardbrake in the past, but i finished all those last summer lol i think lol.     Haven't had the External DVD Drive connected much at all lately

 

Of course my Boot NVMe is Host Memory buffer currently, i think even with the On board Video disabled at moment ro test how system ran for first time with it disabled.  it still reserves Ram anyways.   

 

As still seeing in Task Manager, Memory section Hardware Reserved  406MB--unless the onboard video part still reserved that, as been a while since did a clean install now, not since Christmas 2024

 

**May Switch my 2nd M.2 to be the Boot Drive soon--Samsung 990 Pro 1TB currenly in Slot M2_2.    Move Samsung 990 Evo Plus currently in  1st M.2 slot  and make that the Game Drive,   It would move to Slot 2 on Motherboard once i get the Samsung 990 Pro 1TB moved lol.

 

 

[DNooby]

I've seen more often then naught it causing issues if you have a DGPU, I'd disable it personally.
IE: this was a somewhat recent patch in my BIOS

Some applications glitch out when choosing which GPU to go with, it's usually better to just have you DGPU and disable IGPU for stability and consistency