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October 3rd, 2023 14:28

Setting Nvidia as the default GPU in Bios

I got an instruction from Dell Tech Support how to set NVIDIA card as the default in BIOS by unchecking Switchable Graphics option.
My current BIOS on Precision 7680 does not have this option at all.
Dell support keep sending me the same instructions all over again.
Any clues and suggestion.

Thanks in advance.

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October 4th, 2023 13:58

OK, I figure it out. It was not a brainer. In BIOS go to DISPLAY and at the bottom activate 2 setting: HYBRID and DISCRETE. You will get all the functionality of NVIDIA GPU and NVIDIA Control Panel

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October 3rd, 2023 17:55

Whether or not you can set the discrete GPU as primary depends partly on the GPU -- which one do you have?

It's customarily only the highest level GPU options that have this feature.

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October 3rd, 2023 18:46

@ejn63 GPU is NVIDIA RTX A1000, but assigning it as the default has to be in BIOS. BIOS on my workstation is different from anything I saw before 

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November 20th, 2023 04:17

@GeneG_FL​ Not sure if this is helpful,  but I had someone working on my Precision 5570 this morning (not a Dell technician).  He simply disabled the Iris Xe graphics card in Device Manager.  It defaulted to NVIDIA.

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April 6th, 2024 01:29

@GeneG_FL​ Sadly this isn't available on all laptops (5570 here), which is basically Dell telling us they are bad at cooling. Put an RTX A1000 in a computer, sell it for $3500, and never let the user actually use it because we don't trust our cooling system. 

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April 6th, 2024 01:32

@charlie_whiskey​ This actually works, unless you are using a dock and external monitors. It's bonkers how Dell did the scheduling on the discrete GPU (Fullscreen aps or Intel basically overheating), and then removed the option to turn off Hybrid graphics from the BIOS.

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February 28th, 2025 08:51

Anyone know why Dell removed this option from the BIOS on the Precision 5570?

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April 4th, 2025 11:31

@9xnine​ Do you actually know if this was the main reason Dell removed the option in BIOS?

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