People shopping for laptops have long been faced with a quandary: whether to buy a machine with performance-oriented discrete graphics, which can quickly drain batteries, or to conserve battery life ...

Nvidia has announced a technology called Optimus that lets notebooks switch automatically between integrated and dedicated graphics to save battery life. Although switchable graphics have been around ...

Does your laptop have switchable graphics? You know, both an integrated graphics chip that sips energy and gives you long battery life along with a discrete GPU (graphics processing unit) that offers ...

At this point, NVIDIA's Optimus switchable graphics are old hat, but AMD is relatively new to the game of packing dual GPUs in a single laptop. AnandTech decided to pit the two solutions against each ...

Along with Nvidia's announcement today that it's upgraded its Hybrid SLI switchable graphics mobile solution to the company's new Optimus technology, Asus has disclosed the first five laptops that ...

Today NVIDIA, one of the world's most prevalent graphics processor manufacturers, announced their latest innovation in switchable graphics, which they call Optimus. The concept of switchable graphics ...

AMD was not only talking about its 28nm notebook graphics chip, it has also reminded us that it has its own switchable graphics. AMD has been playing with switchable graphics for a long time and these ...

AMD and Nvidia both have their own versions of switchable graphics software, Nvidia’s goes by the label of Optimus. AMD’s switchable graphics will include the ability to switch between both AMD and ...

Mac: If you have a newer Mac with both integrated and discrete graphics on the board, it can be difficult to tell which card is operating, or whether both graphics cards are working properly.

How we missed this at the ASUS booth is beyond us, but leave it to the eagle-eyes at Ars to hone in on the ASUS UL80JT with an overclockable Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce 310 graphics. So it's ...

I am considering purchasing the Dell Latitude e7450 and find myself wondering whether I should get the Intel HD 5500 integrated graphics or the discrete NVidia 840M. The model with integrated graphics ...