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I am running ubuntu 16.04.4 with budgie desktop - I just installed mesa's vulkan drivers, and when I run vulkaninfo, I can see the gpu it uses is my intel ivy bridge igpu instead of my radeon hd 7870. is there a way i can get it to use the proper gpu?

thanks!

Editing to show the output of lshw -c video like dobey wanted

$ sudo lshw -c video
      *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Pitcairn XT [Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
       resources: irq:33 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f7b00000-f7b3ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:c0000-dffff
  *-display
       description: Display controller
       product: Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:32 memory:f7400000-f77fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
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