# Nvidia GPU is allways on. How to used integrated card by default?

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**Category:** Bazzite\
**Created:** [August 20, 2024, 8:02am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/nvidia-gpu-is-allways-on-how-to-used-integrated-card-by-default/3617 "2024-08-20T08:02:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![BHOY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@BHOY](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/BHOY)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 8:02am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/nvidia-gpu-is-allways-on-how-to-used-integrated-card-by-default/3617/1 "2024-08-20T08:02:13Z")

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Hi. I installed bazzite on laptop with Nvidia gpu. I noticed that Nvidia is always in use. I would like to know if there is a need to configure something to use by default AMD integrated card and Nvidia only to run games. On Fedora 40 this worked like I expected.

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**Author:** ![hereticofdune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/48db29/32.png) [@hereticofdune](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/hereticofdune)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 8:10am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/nvidia-gpu-is-allways-on-how-to-used-integrated-card-by-default/3617/2 "2024-08-20T08:10:39Z")

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I am also interested in doing a similar thing (running game-scope on a desktop Intel iGpu while rendering games using the Nvidia card). Hopefully somebody here has some ideas as I like Bazzite and don’t want to remove my installation for another distro.

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**Author:** ![XRaTiX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/xratix/32/2898_2.png) [@XRaTiX](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/XRaTiX)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 2:29am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/nvidia-gpu-is-allways-on-how-to-used-integrated-card-by-default/3617/3 "2024-08-21T02:29:35Z")

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You need to enable the supergfxctl service with

```auto
ujust enable-supergfxctl

```

then do a

```auto
supergfxctl -s

```

to get what available modes are to switch,if you see integrated then do

```auto
supergfxctl -m Integrated

```

then logout and login,your NVIDIA card should be powered off now,you can test it with the

```auto
nvidia-smi

```

command,if it throws and error then yes,the NVIDIA card is powered off.

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**Author:** ![BHOY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@BHOY](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/BHOY)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 7:23am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/nvidia-gpu-is-allways-on-how-to-used-integrated-card-by-default/3617/4 "2024-08-21T07:23:17Z")

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Thanks XRaTiX.

Do you know if Bazzite plan support hybrid graphics by default like Fedora?

This solution seems to work, but last time supergfxctl have a release was almost 5 month ago. I don’t know if this could be long term solution.