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Since i bought my laptop i've noticed (according to device manager) that i have 2 graphics card. How can i tell which one is actually being used.
 
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It's probably an integrated graphics processor in the CPU and a dedicated graphics card. The integrated graphics takes over when there's not much graphics work to do, because it saves power compared to the beefier dedicated graphics card. Then when you eg. launch a game, the dedicated graphics card takes over.
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It's probably an integrated graphics processor in the CPU and a dedicated graphics card. The integrated graphics takes over when there's not much graphics work to do, because it saves power compared to the beefier dedicated graphics card. Then when you eg. launch a game, the dedicated graphics card takes over.
 
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Which one would you think be my integrated one. Out of the intel hd 4400 and the radeon hd 8670m.
 
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Thanks for that. Also when i check gpu-z it seems that the intel card seems to be doing most if not all of the work whereas the radeon fluctuates between 300MHz and 0Mhz. is this supposed to be happening?
 
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Depends what you're doing when you check GPU-Z. The dedicated graphics card should only take over when there's a significant GPU load, like a game or stress test.

Also, power settings might influence it. The more power-saving plans might keep the dedicated graphics card inactive.
 
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