Gamers always expect more from their computers. It is the expectation of every gamer that the hardware works smoothly and even more performance. Laptop users, on the other hand, have expectations such as better battery life and lower latency.
NVIDIA has developed many technologies for laptops to date. One of them is NVIDIA Optimus technology. Optimus basically allows the external NVIDIA GPU and the internal GPU to kick in according to your computer’s graphics load. However, since many laptops transfer the image via the internal GPU, latency increases and performance loss occurs.
NVIDIA Advanced Optimus takes Optimus technology one step further. In short, Advanced Optimus aims to prevent the problems we mentioned by enabling laptops with external NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards to communicate better with the display.
Gaming laptops are equipped with external graphics cards to handle the high graphics load. However, there are also GPUs in the processors used. These GPUs, called built-in GPUs, are very ideal and energy-saving for daily usage scenarios. External GPUs, on the other hand, are used for games, GPU computing software, artificial intelligence training, video editing, 3D design and live broadcasts.
If NVIDIA Advanced Optimus technology is not included in such a combination, the internal GPU, the graphics unit within the processor, communicates with the display. This is something we don’t want. We can exemplify this as follows. Let’s say you have a laptop with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 that does not support NVIDIA Advanced Optimus. As soon as you play games on this computer, your NVIDIA external graphics card processes the graphics and then transmits them to the display via the internal GPU. This brings up the problems we mentioned.
NVIDIA Advanced Optimus was developed to solve exactly this problem. Thanks to the new technology, external graphics cards can now communicate directly with the display instead of the internal GPU. So the internal GPU is excluded from this process. In this case, you may have some reservations. For example, you might think that there will be a waste of power consumption when an external graphics card is used and there is no graphics load. However, this is not the case. NVIDIA Advanced Optimus is an automatic system. Just like older Optimus tech, Advanced Optimus can switch between external and internal GPU. You are not going to any trouble.
How Does NVIDIA Advanced Optimus Affect Gaming Experience?
Thanks to Advanced Optimus, we have eliminated the internal GPU. Our external graphics card is now on its own. In this way, the bottleneck is prevented and problems such as performance loss and delay are eliminated.
Higher Performance
The biggest advantage of Advanced Optimus is higher performance. NVIDIA compared laptops with and without Advanced Optimus. The results are quite surprising. Up to 26% higher FPS in DOOM: Eternal and up to 13% higher FPS in Shadow of the Tomb Raider with NVIDIA Advanced Optimus.
Low System Latency
The second biggest benefit of technology is to eliminate the delay. According to NVIDIA’s research, Advanced Optimus significantly reduces system lag, especially in eSports games. While the latency was improved by 40% in Fortnite, this value was measured as 11% in Overwatch. In competitive games like this, where the difference between victory and defeat can be just a few frames, anything that can reduce your system lag is essential.
Higher Battery Time
With NVIDIA Optimus, the internal GPU is also enabled and functional, so there is an extra power consumption. Advanced Optimus eliminates this problem as well. Thanks to the technology in question, since the internal GPU is not active, power consumption decreases, thus extending your battery life. In addition, while carrying out your daily work, the same process is done for the external graphics card.
