How to View the Video Card, Check the Discrete Video Card, Onboard

This guide explains how to view the Video Card, Check the Discrete Video Card, Onboard, with clear steps, practical tips, and important checks before you begin.

1. Check the video card by using the command 'dxdiag' on windows.

Step 1: You open the Run dialog box by pressing the key combination Windows + R, then enter the command 'dxdiag' and then click OK.

Step 2: A dialog box appears, switch to the Display tab in the Device box, you will see the information of the video card.

In the image below the display is Intel (R) HD Graphíc 630 ie onboard card.

If displayed as ATI, AMD or NVDIA as shown below, the video card is discrete:

2. Check the video card using GPU-Z software

This is a specialized software to view detailed parameters of the video card with many different parameters including monitoring the operation status of the video card.

Step 1 : First, download the GPU-Z software here.

http://www. guru3d. com/files-get/gpu-z-download-techpowerup,12. html

Step 2 : You install the software and then run the software will have the following interface:

Here the display card name is Intel (R) HD Graphíc 630 ie onboard card.

If displayed as ATI, AMD or NVDIA as shown below, the video card is discrete:

Above is a tutorial on how to check whether a computer card is a discrete or onboard card, hope you will find the article useful. Thank you for watching the article!