Permanently Enable Intel® Arc™ A370M Graphics dGPU over iGPU Xe Graphics

[iaisaac]

Hello HP Community and Technology Support;

The anesthically appealing and innovative eye catching design HP Spectre x360 2-in-1 Laptop 16-f2097nr boasts next-generation internals such as an Intel® Core™ i7-1360P processor and Intel® Arc™ A370M Graphics. While task simple web searching, browsing, and streaming was deemed sufficient with the i7 iGPU, the Intel Arc has yet to shine it’s beauty performance wise.

As a person who purchased and challenges myself on making this work: totally enabling Intel Arc, I would like to see to that. After all, the dGPU was $200 more compared to it’s counterpart lonesome model without it.

So let’s cut to the chase… with basic tech savy knowledge and skills; and through searching HP articles, google, and youtube that don’t seem to use this exact Spectre x360 model or with the Intel Arc graphics:

- Through shutting down laptop->esc repeatedly->menu->BIOS the mysterious advanced option has yet to be seen or found. This ‘advance’ menu should enable the dGPU and disable the iGPU on mosts bios.

- Intel Command; the alternative to Nividia control panel or AMD’s cp. In which, you would find to disable or enable the GPU’s as you wish. But it doesn’t; instead Intel Command directs you to go to settings->graphics->advanced to select an application or exe file that this computer would let you choose respective GPU preference. (It fails to switch graphics when the application is windowed even with the setting enabled.)

- Disabling Xe Iris Graphics in device manager ultimately turns on GnP Drivers; and does not enable the external graphics.

I get it already HP; I’m not using the product as intended. But since I spent my time and money on such a device that advertises an Intel Arc GPU, I would like to use it dedicatedly over Intel’s integrated one. I’m just that stubborn, that not only I would want and wait for this software driver relationship to be fixed, but all the solutions on the table that haven’t been explored for me and others who share the same interests.

Edit: (fixed kind of)

- Installed drivers to latest version straight from Intel by googling “Intel Arc A370M Graphics Driver”

- Navigate into System > Display > Graphics and individually add each .exe or any application you would like the dGPU to run on by selecting high performance (Intel Arc A370M Graphics) on preference.

- System > Power & Batterg select “Best performance” on power mode.

- Intel Graphics Command Center > System > Power Settings > Enable power savings and turn this to 1 > Panel Self Refresh off.

- Wait for the fans to consistently kick in and run loud for dear life, and observe GPU utilization on task manager.

- Hoping that there would be a future option to enable dGPU for the new Intel Arc easily and dedicatedly.

[Aquacleaner]

I agree with you 100%

Have the same Laptop and purchased it with the same options as you

In fact, I have last years spectre 16 360 with dedicated IGPU and have spoken with HP tech about this recently.

They just want us using the DGPU for gaming only

Not happy but waiting for intel n HP to figure out how to keep up with their GPU competitors 

I'm nervous to follow ur lead as I'm not too tech savoy