These higher powered discrete graphics options basically sit idle when there are no GPU intensive tasks running on the system.
This has the advantage of improving battery life, as they’re more efficient and require less power to operate, however the downside is gaming performance kind of sucks when compared to what AMD and Nvidia have on offer. This basically means that the lower powered integrated graphics within the processor are used to send display signal to the screen. Connecting an external monitor to a laptop should increase gaming performance in most instances, let’s discuss why this is the case, and find out just how big the difference is in a number of different games.
