Nvidia Optimus Vlc
Bbswitch is the kernel module used to turn off and on the discrete nvidia gpu and non free nvidia optimus linux drivers are the proprietary gpu drivers provided by nvidia.
Nvidia optimus vlc. In some cases it can let the graphic card perform post processing and rendering of the decoded video. An alternative to bumblebee or optimus manager for those of us who have optimus enabled laptops. Please do not use this guide if you want to render your desktop using the integrated gpu and specifically select applications to be rendered using the nvidia gpu. To enable the gpu acceleration option on your mac open vlc media player and find the preferences option in vlc menu.
To check if keras 2. The nvidia nvs 5400m driver update of v382 99 is causing some issues. Gpu to accelerate decoding of video streams depending on the video codec graphic card model and operating system. The vlc media player framework can use your graphics chip a k a.
However on linux the nvidia driver does not provide such offloading capabilities yet which makes it difficult to use the full potential of your machine while keeping a reasonable battery life. The intel hd graphics 4000 updated driver is fine. Cpu of some of the most computationally heavy. Once all this is done your model will run on gpu.
Advantage of bumblebee over other solutions like nvidia prime is you can run one many specific application using the discrete nvidia gpu without restarting the current x session on the fly. Here you ll need to find the input codecs tab and look for the option. Join the geforce community. On windows the optimus technology works by dynamically offloading rendering to the nvidia gpu when running 3d intensive applications while the desktop session itself runs on the intel gpu.
However when updating to this driver there are some drawbacks. My initial goal was to just write a small bash script that would let me easily jump back and forth from using prime that i have set up thanks to jonathon s tutorial and also an intel only setup that completely powers down the nvidia gpu in a way that does not cause lockups break sleep suspend. A while back an nvidia optimus driver was offered for it via the lenovo system update utility. Browse categories post your questions or just chat with other members.