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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So Tuesday the graphics chip maker unveiled Nvidia Optimus, a switchable graphics technology that automatically routes notebook PC workloads to either the low-power integrated graphics to extend ...

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 ...

Nvidia has officially unveiled its 'Next-generation ION' netbook graphics processor, which includes switchable Optimus graphics. The new version of ION, announced on Tuesday at the CeBIT conference in ...

In the second quarter of 2013 the graphics chip market has grown and figures suggest AMD and Intel are doing better than rivals Nvidia. While figures remain down year-on-year John Peddie Research (JPR ...

Ideally, switchable graphics would be seamless. Launch an application that doesn't require significant graphics resources, and chipset graphics gets used. Fire up a game and the discrete GPU kicks in.

The Asus UL30VT is a 13.3 inch thin and light laptop with switchable graphics. That means you can either use the integrated GMA 4500MHD graphics chipset when battery life matters more than performance ...