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Graphics card confusion
Saturday, June 8th, 2019 01:19 amI'm confused. When I bought this laptop, my notes say that it came with "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 4GB Discrete Graphics".
When I check Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Display\Screen Resolution\Advanced Settings,
it shows "Adapter Type: Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500", with "Dedicated Video Memory: 128 MB".
My quicklaunch area has an "NVIDIA GeForce Experience" icon, which when I click it, and select to open the NVIDIA Control Panel, it does list a "GeForce GTX 950M" with "Dedicated Video Memory: 4096 MB DDR3".
So why does the Control Panel/Display window list an Intel Graphics card rather than the GeForce?
Further confusing me is this page:
https://www.consumerreports.org/products/laptop/hp-envy-17t-384316/overview/
which says my laptop model comes with "Nvidia GeForce 940M/Intel HD Graphics 5500".
I don't know if that means it has 2 graphics cards, or that the laptop can come with either one?
Based on these pages:
http://hwbench.com/vgas/geforce-940m-vs-hd-graphics-5500-broadwell-gt2
https://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=2802&gid2=2575&compare=geforce-940m-2gb-vs-intel-hd-graphics-5500
It seems that they are 2 different graphics cards. So why would I have both?
Hmmmm.... According to this page:
https://forums.tomsguide.com/threads/i-have-2-graphics-card-intel-hd-graphic-and-nvidia-geforce-610m.72644/
Maybe I do have both. Maybe since I've never installed any games on this laptop, I've never even used the GeForce yet.
Ah, more info:
https://superuser.com/questions/908824/why-does-my-laptop-have-two-graphics-cards
The only reason I was checking on this now was to find out if my laptop meets the requirements for this game: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/journey/home
Since it does have the GeForce, I believe it does meet the requirements.
Edited to add:
In Device Manager, both graphics cards are listed under "Display Adapters". When I was looking for them there at first, I couldn't find them. I expected them to be listed under an entry with "graphics" or "video" in the name, and even though I read through all the group names in case they were listed under something else, I still overlooked it.
When I check Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Display\Screen Resolution\Advanced Settings,
it shows "Adapter Type: Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500", with "Dedicated Video Memory: 128 MB".
My quicklaunch area has an "NVIDIA GeForce Experience" icon, which when I click it, and select to open the NVIDIA Control Panel, it does list a "GeForce GTX 950M" with "Dedicated Video Memory: 4096 MB DDR3".
So why does the Control Panel/Display window list an Intel Graphics card rather than the GeForce?
Further confusing me is this page:
https://www.consumerreports.org/products/laptop/hp-envy-17t-384316/overview/
which says my laptop model comes with "Nvidia GeForce 940M/Intel HD Graphics 5500".
I don't know if that means it has 2 graphics cards, or that the laptop can come with either one?
Based on these pages:
http://hwbench.com/vgas/geforce-940m-vs-hd-graphics-5500-broadwell-gt2
https://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=2802&gid2=2575&compare=geforce-940m-2gb-vs-intel-hd-graphics-5500
It seems that they are 2 different graphics cards. So why would I have both?
Hmmmm.... According to this page:
https://forums.tomsguide.com/threads/i-have-2-graphics-card-intel-hd-graphic-and-nvidia-geforce-610m.72644/
Maybe I do have both. Maybe since I've never installed any games on this laptop, I've never even used the GeForce yet.
Ah, more info:
https://superuser.com/questions/908824/why-does-my-laptop-have-two-graphics-cards
The only reason I was checking on this now was to find out if my laptop meets the requirements for this game: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/journey/home
Since it does have the GeForce, I believe it does meet the requirements.
Edited to add:
In Device Manager, both graphics cards are listed under "Display Adapters". When I was looking for them there at first, I couldn't find them. I expected them to be listed under an entry with "graphics" or "video" in the name, and even though I read through all the group names in case they were listed under something else, I still overlooked it.