Ever had that problem with your new laptop whereby you constantly have to switch between using your power draining GPU or not? If you have then you’ll know how frustrating it can be having to switch your GPU on or off depending on what you’re doing on your laptop to conserve on energy. You have to change power management settings, may have to restart your machine or simply wait an age for your GPU to fire up. Even then you might find that battery life is still a problem even when you’re not using your GPU, not ideal when you might be actually working instead of gaming.

Well NVIDIA have come up with a solution which can see this process done almost instantly between using its GPU or not using it but what makes it special is that when it’s switched off, it draws no power from your battery. Also before the switch had to be done manually, now NVIDIA has programmed power management profiles so your computer just knows when to switch the GPU on and will even recognise when your web browser might require a HD plugin.

What this means is an obvious beneficial increase in battery life to even the most power hungry gaming laptop.