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alphabetagaga
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June 28th, 2015 10:00
latitude e5540 with nvidia 720m gpu and intel gpu
it seems my laptop always uses the intel integrated gpu. is it possible to force use the dedicated nvidia 720m? i would prefer to use the 720m all the time
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Posted November 15th, 2017 04:00
The 2013 Latitude E5440 sold with the option of purchasing the additional discrete Nvidia GeForce (N14M-GE). Your system was purchased only with the onboard Intel HD 4600 video.
DELL-Chris M (old account)
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Posted June 28th, 2015 10:00
thanks. so there is no way to force the 720m to be used? i had a alienware 14 recently and was able to force use the nvidia gpu in that machine (i think it was some sort of f5 toggle from memory)
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Posted June 28th, 2015 10:00
The GPU is selected with the optimus control panel - but it's not a standalone, discrete GPU. It's a co-processor - - the Intel GPU will always be active and primary. By design, all video data passes through the on-CPU GPU on its way to the display -- the nVidia GPU has no physical connection to the screen.
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Posted June 28th, 2015 12:00
Not on the Latitude no -- there are two ways to implement hybrid video - software-only and hardware. The Alienware likely had a true hardware hybrid -- the Latitude (and Inspiron, Vostro and newer XPS) are all software-controlled.
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Posted June 29th, 2015 04:00
great thanks for that reply. it was just what i was hoping for :emotion-1:
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Posted November 15th, 2017 04:00
Are the all of models latitude e5440 have discrete videoadapter nvidia 720m?
I guess my latude e5440 has not...
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Posted June 28th, 2015 16:00
Hi alphabetagaga,
Using the nvidia control panel - select manage 3d settings - on global settings - select preferred graphics processor as high performance NVIDIA processor and choose apply - see the pic for reference only - http://bit.ly/1ImbYvi
Also. select the option set physx configuration - select the GeForce card applicable and apply - see pic for reference only - http://bit.ly/1eT87ul
This should render the any applications to use high performance / video memory from the nvidia card. However, this is software controlled. As advised by ejn63 - Intel card will physically still be the primary card. After you make these changes, the nvidia will be logically primary.