Re: lenovo thinkpoad with nvidia and intel graphics?

On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 19:14, Tommi Pernila <tommi.pernila@iki.fi> wrote:
> > I have a T430s with both Intel integrated graphics and discrete NVidia
> > graphics. I disabled the latter at the BIOS level since Xenocara
> > doesn't support it, and the system worked fine with just the integrated
> > Intel graphics.
> > You might be able to do the same with most of the T440p and T540p
> > units, but check the specs to be sure.
> > --
> > Matthew Graybosch
>
> It's good to note that most Lenovo laptops that have Intel and Nvidia GPUs,
> have the external displays wired only to the Nvidia GPU (T540p for sure as
> i have this model).
> So think if you can you can live without the external displays.

This is true for those laptops until Thunderbolt is supported and thus
you can connect a supported PCIe GPU such as an AMDGPU via an external
Thunderbolt-PCIe enclosure.

How good the actual performance is would need to be checked then. It
should be good considering it's 22gbps of full duplex PCIe data
bandwidth, but needs to be tested.