How to put laptop gpu to good use?

[phantomkhan]

Question: What do you use your laptop GPU for? speaking of linux

I bought a lenovo t430 recently, one with the NVS_5400m. I was so impressed with the smooth interface and multi usage environment that I uninstalled the factory win7 and installed Backbox as boot, and I'm very satisfied!

Something that bothers me is that I haven't been able to use my gpu to any good use! I saw hashcat but its useless when I imagine it would take 200-300 years in cracking a 10 character password.

So please suggest some good usage for my GPU, or should I just turn optimus/d-gpu off from bios?

Thank you!

[mhalan]

Hi, may you tell me about cpu info and how many GB is your ram.

[AdrianG001]

A Graphics Card is a processor designed specifically to handle 3D graphics and videos. It is so because having such a processor along with the main processor/CPU, its reduces the amount of pressure on your CPU. The CPU mainly does calculations very fast and a GPU mainly does the processing of graphics very fast.

For a gaming laptop- GPU is the most important factor

For a non-gaming laptop- CPU+RAM is the most important factor