So when will Amd offer something like Optimus for Intel laptops?

[RobertPters77]

Because I'm sick of waiting to buy a new laptop. I passed by on an amazing deal with for a SAGER with HD6970m because the battery life was poor. Nvidia pisses me off because it charges oems to turn on optimus, and the 69XX radeons beat their nvidia counterparts in price and performance.

 

[mnewsham]

AMD Power express 4.0

 

[RobertPters77]

Does not work well for my coworkers.

 

[IlllI]

from reading the nvidia forums, optimus is pretty flaky as well
i think it'll take a few years for this kind of tech to fully mature

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Maybe after they get their own version to work seamlessly, which is something NVIDIA didn't bother to do... A friend and an acquaintance returned their Optimus laptops to get dedicated & discrete GPU laptops this past year.

 

[mnewsham]

Maybe after they get their own version to work seamlessly, which is something NVIDIA didn't bother to do... A friend and an acquaintance returned their Optimus laptops to get dedicated & discrete GPU laptops this past year.

AnandTech needs an article comparing both :awe:

 

[Chiropteran]

Not sure if it happens because of optimus, but on my XPS14 Dell laptop with "525M", every time I alt-tab out of league of legends it crashes the game. Using the latest nvidia drivers and no change. Seems like it might be optimus related.

 

[n0x1ous]

Running an xps 17 with optimus gt435m and all is well on the switching front both with games and flash etc etc.

 

[ieatdonuts]

1) AMD does have an alternative to Optimus - they just call it switchable graphics.

2) Most people who offer a high end Nvidia card such as the 580m or 485m or 560m do NOT offer Optimus. Optimus is usually used with low-end cards.

So I'm not sure if what you are looking for even exists.