I found this out the hard way as well with my 17r4 (with internal gtx1060) and AGA w/gtx1080ti. I finally bought myself an inexpensive external gaming monitor (asus vg248qe 144hz), connected this to one of my 1080ti's DisplayPort and used Win10 display setting to only project to this monitor.
Until you do this you will not be getting the max performance boost with your AGA. Also, running external performance measuring tools does not tell you anything useful because they just measure the AGA's card and does not take into consideration the piping back to your laptop monitor. The main test is how well your apps/games run (FPS). Most of mine are ~2x faster (1080p).
TomC69
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November 3rd, 2018 19:00
I found this out the hard way as well with my 17r4 (with internal gtx1060) and AGA w/gtx1080ti. I finally bought myself an inexpensive external gaming monitor (asus vg248qe 144hz), connected this to one of my 1080ti's DisplayPort and used Win10 display setting to only project to this monitor.
Until you do this you will not be getting the max performance boost with your AGA. Also, running external performance measuring tools does not tell you anything useful because they just measure the AGA's card and does not take into consideration the piping back to your laptop monitor. The main test is how well your apps/games run (FPS). Most of mine are ~2x faster (1080p).