HD 4600 + GT 820M at the same time!?

[Will Barnard]

My new Asus laptop arrived on Friday, and it says under display adapters, that it is using both the Intel HD4600 graphics and the Geforce GT 820M at the same time. From what I understand, the HD4600 provides the image whilst the GT 820m 'enhances' it by programming straight into the frame buffer. Is this correct? Please help me to understand how this works, it doesn't bother me, it just seems like a very strange setup

Edit: Maybe not strange, just a bit pointless.

[techguru]

no

you use one or the other 

not both

the intel for when you are on teh desktop 

the 820m when you are playing games

 

btw..the 820m isn't exactly for gaming

[FruitBasketSilex]

no

you use one or the other

not both

the intel for when you are on teh desktop

the 820m when you are playing games

btw..the 820m isn't exactly for gaming

This, basically. Unless you feel like coding an api by yourself, for yourself. And integrating it yourself. None of which is very feasible.

[Bogica]

no

you use one or the other 

not both

the intel for when you are on teh desktop 

the 820m when you are playing games

 

btw..the 820m isn't exactly for gaming

^

DAT.

And the 820m is alright for 720p gaming. I use it on my laptop, it does alright.

[Will Barnard]

Are you sure?? From what I've read, nVidia Optimus allows them both to be active at the same time.

Edit: And yeah, if I was planning on gaming I would have bought a laptop with an 820m aha, I bought it for the CPU

no

you use one or the other

not both

the intel for when you are on teh desktop

the 820m when you are playing games

btw..the 820m isn't exactly for gaming

This, basically. Unless you feel like coding an api by yourself, for yourself. And integrating it yourself. None of which is very feasible.

^

DAT.

And the 820m is alright for 720p gaming. I use it on my laptop, it does alright.

Are you sure?? From what I've read, nVidia Optimus allows them both to be active at the same time.

Edit: And yeah, if I was planning on gaming I wouldn't have bought a laptop with an 820m aha, I bought it for the CPU

[FruitBasketSilex]

Are you sure?? From what I've read, nVidia Optimus allows them both to be active at the same time.

Totally wrong. It allows you to switch from one to the other easily. Using the igpu for low power applications and the dgpu for more intensive ones.

[FruitBasketSilex]

I happened to have previously owned an alienware laptop with optimus, so I am quite familiar with this technology. Have a good day.

EDIT: Optimus, not options damn auto correct.

[TheXenonMyth]

nah buddy. i have this HP laptop with 830m graphics. And, the guys here are right. They do not work in tandem (as in SLI) if thats what u mean. When less intensive graphical tasks(web browsing, the desktop etc.) are being run, the intel HD graphics take over and when you run demanding tasks like 3D gaming, it passes on to nVidia GPU. In fact, if u right click on the desktop and go to nvidia graphics control panel, u can actually assign which programs us the nvidia GPU and which, the HD 4600. 

Hope i helped.