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AMD A8-6410 R5 Graphics + 8570M performance issues

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September 13, 2014 1:49:01 AM

Hey guys!

A few days ago I bought an HP laptop with an A8-6410 APU. As some may know, it comes with an R5 intergrated graphic card on the APU. There is also a dedicated card available inside my laptop.

It's an AMD Radeon HD 8570M (i've already managed to change the settings for gaming inside CCC, but i don't know if it only play games from the APU with the intergrated GPU, or in combination with the dedicated GPU).

My question is how to let the two work together so i can get more power to play games etc. (I heard that you have to set your power plan of your laptop to high performance so the dedicated GPU in combination with the APU would work because there is much more power when set in high performance). I already contacted HP and AMD by phone ,but they didn't really help me, so i hope someone from this support site can.

I've tried re-installing the GPU drivers through HP's website (since it's an HP G081 notebook), aswell as installing the drivers from AMD's website but it didn't fix a single thing.

I figured out that there is this 'high performance-mode' (right-click desktop, second option AMD) and that makes games more playable but the experience still is anything but good.

I think that the 8570m should definately be able to play older games like Assassins Creed Revwlations, since it's comparable to Nvidia's GT540, on which the game runs fine, even with medium-high settings.

What's going on here?

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September 13, 2014 1:58:08 AM

A mobile part will never be comparable to desktop part, no matter what it just wont, secondly only way you can get them to work together is enabling hybrid crossfire i don't own amd card so dont know how to turn it on, but that is not a gaming laptop, and those gpu's are very weak so low to medium should work kind of ok...
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September 13, 2014 2:03:33 AM

cemerian said:
A mobile part will never be comparable to desktop part, no matter what it just wont, secondly only way you can get them to work together is enabling hybrid crossfire i don't own amd card so dont know how to turn it on, but that is not a gaming laptop, and those gpu's are very weak so low to medium should work kind of ok...



I've spent hours looking for the Crossfire option. It's nowhere to be found. It's also not in the BIOS of my laptop. I know that this is anything but a gaming laptop but I think that it should be able to play older games.
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September 13, 2014 3:21:33 AM

well a quick google search shows that you should be able to select hybrid crossfire in amd controlcenter, if not its probably not supported
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September 13, 2014 3:39:28 AM

cemerian said:
well a quick google search shows that you should be able to select hybrid crossfire in amd controlcenter, if not its probably not supported


It's not listed in the Catalyst Control Center. However, GPU-Z tells me that Crossfire is available but that it's disabled at the moment...
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September 13, 2014 5:46:36 AM

go into bios there could be options for it aswell, it could be disabled there at this point
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September 13, 2014 5:52:45 AM

cemerian said:
go into bios there could be options for it aswell, it could be disabled there at this point


There is unfortunately no option for Crossfire in my BIOS. Looked everywhere. My BIOS barely has any options at all
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September 13, 2014 6:24:14 AM

well in that case i have no idea, only thing get the latest driver and try again, and get the drivers from amd not hp site http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

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