I'm new to Ubuntu, and Linux in general. My machine is running on UEFI with On-Demand Graphics, and am running Ubuntu 20.04 on dual boot. I have an integrated AMD Renoir GPU and a dedicated NVIDIA GPU, and have installed the recommended nvidia drivers.
I observed a similar issue with Chromium-based browsers, and had to turn off the hardware acceleration for it to work smoothly.
I also tried running VS Code after switching to my dedicated GPU, and can confirm it works smoothly. However, I want to avoid doing so for battery related reasons.
My questions are as follows:
- I understand that I can do something similar with VS Code by using the
--disable-gpuparameter, but I'd like to know why I can't have it run properly on the integrated graphics card. - Do I need to install AMD-specific drivers along with the nvidia ones? Is that even possible? How do people handle GPU usage on systems with integrated and dedicated cards?
Please help!
