XPS 27 7760 with RX 570 (2017) - Force Apps to use AMD Card and not Intel

For the operating system, the Intel GPU is always primary. The AMD GPU is just a co-processor. AMD Switchable Graphics is designed in a way that the Intel video card stays on by default and the AMD video card only turns on when graphic intensive applications are run. The Windows desktop (Aero) use the integrated graphics. Hence, the switching is automatic and it cannot be done manually. However, you can configure specific applications to run on high performance (AMD) or power saving (Intel).

AMD Switchable Graphics articles here, here, and here.

Hi Chris,

thanks for the provided links. Unfortunately some of them seemed to be old. The "high performance" setting doesn't work for Adobe Products. Is there a trick?

Thanks

That I do not know. Perhaps post on the Adobe and AMD Forums asking other users what they have tried.

Is this true? I bought an expensive 7760 to see that the powerful AMD card is slower than just using the CPU using Premiere Pro? I'm going to cut a video in a couple of days. So I will test it a little, but that shocks me a little.

Directx 11  HD 7760 is not a DirectX 12  Fire Pro 6100

Note that in the macbook test the Open CL is also slower than INTEL Graphics.  CUDA is exclusive to NVIDIA GPU.

Cuda is the dominant API for Photoshop and Premier because Cuda is more mature than Open CL.

OpenCL and CUDA are completely different. They can both use the same HW ONLY on NVIDIA. But just as OpenGL and DirectX, one is not under the other or vice versa.

In the case of Adobe products Dell neither writes the OS nor the API nor do they support merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose in regard to Premier or Photoshop etc.  Nor does dell support software from 3rd party vendors.

RX570 is not Firepro,  Geforce is not Quadro

RX570 does not represent a "high end" premier or photo shop GPU.

The Design is more geared towards games.

What you are asking for is not what the RX570 is designed for.

Your XPS is not a Precision Workstation nor is it a Mac Pro with Dual D700 Cross Fire capability.

ANY AMD card can ONLY DO Open CL.

For Cuda it requires an Nvidia card.

Dell does not support Adobe products or features or Speed or lack therof on XPS systems.   Dell Precision Workstations are certified for

Maya 3D and Autocad and Adobe Premier etc.

• AMD/ATI FirePro: 3800, 4800, 5800, 7800, 8800, 9800, 3900, 4900, 5900, 7900, W8100, W9100, D300, D500, D700
• AMD/ATI FireGL: W5000, W7000, W8000
  

Not really sure what you mean but my XPS 7760 has a RX570 on board.

To clear things up a little. I know the RX570 isn't a high end graphic card. At the moment I use XPS 2710 (i7 3770 and Nvidia 640m). It is slow and I want to update to a newer hardware, but keep the All-in-one Concept. Therefore I bought the XPS 7760.

So my question about performance is more - will a Nvidia (in this same graphics card price range) be sooo much better comparing to a AMD card? I know that I didn't bought a high end machine but if this AMD card is a really bad idea and practically not usable for Adobe I would maybe return it

I'm too the owner of 2710. And I also think about changing it to a new AIO. But, so many years have passed and Dell is still stepping on the same rake! AIO is not a laptop. It doesn't need an energy-saving mode. It absolutely doesn't need to have 2 video cards on board. Thousands, tens thousands of users suffer with programs and games on these computers. Because ALWAYS there is a problem in the automatic start of a discrete video card. Personally, I had a desire to just tear out the Intel chip from the mother card with forceps and burn it. Just because I don't need it all the time using the computer.

What now? Suppose I want to buy a 27 inch Inspiron for 4k $? I will have same tormented trying to make a discrete graphics card work? Or I must also sell my PC after 2 years because Dell will stop supporting the drivers because of the new version of Windows? This is ridiculous.

I went to the forum just to look for a stable driver for 640m on Windows 10. And I see there is same  problems with discrete graphics cards still remain. Even on new PC.

The RX 570 is a good middle range card but I would have gotten the Inspiron 7000 AIO with the RX 580 as that is a nice upper mid-range card..  As for the Adobe problem, its an optimization of the software for AMD vs Nvidia.  Nvidia has better optimizations for some types of software then AMD which focuses a bit more on games.  

The Intel graphics chip is built into the CPU so it is not removable unless you remove the CPU.