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submitted 5 days ago by jeena@piefed.jeena.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm on Arch (btw.) and I have a Intel i5-14600K CPU with a iGPU (UHD Graphics 770) (GPU 1) in it and a dGPU from Nvidia, the RTX 3060 (GPU 0). I have one monitor connected to the 3060 via display port 1.4.

I can see both GPUs in GNOME Mission Center, but hte iGPU has always Clock Speed 0 and Utilization 0. So anything which is done on the GPU is done on the 3060.

I want to seperate what is done on the iGPU and what is done on the 3060:

dGPU (RTX 3060):

  1. Video editing
  2. video transcoding
  3. AI stuff (ollama)
  4. Machine learning
  5. Blender
  6. Steam games

iGPU (intel):

  1. Firefox (especially YouTube video decoding, it has hw acceleration for that)
  2. Chrome
  3. Libre Office
  4. GNOME
  5. etc.

I wonder if this or at least parts of it is possible. I need the whole 12 GB VRAM on the 3060 for ollama, and the iGPU is just sitting there doing nothing. Is there a way to distribute the work? Do I need two screens for that or something?

It might also be that I'm misunderstanding how the whole thing works or over estimating Linuxes capabilities.

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And more fun, lots of laptops have really goofy routing. I've got one where the DP alt mode on the USB-C ports are on the dGPU, but the HDMI ports are on the iGPU. And the internal panel is on the iGPU unless you switch it to be on the dGPU because yay mux.

Why? I don't know. Too much meth while laying the board out or something I guess.

this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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