
You may also wish to enable the integrated GPU if you wish to connect a large number of monitors to your computer. This can speed up video editing in H.264 by a huge margin but make sure you have 16GB or 32GB of system memory as the Intel iGPU will consume valuable system memory and may make 8GB systems slower in editing due to the memory restrictions. Anyone working with H.264 codecs should enable the integrated Intel GPU because there is a feature of the Intel GPU called Quicksync which is a hardware video encoder for H.264. There are occasions when you may wish to enable the integrated GPU however as it has some pretty nifty features for video editors. This also has the benefit of freeing up more system memory which would otherwise be assigned to the integrated GPU and preventing the GPU from consuming memory bandwidth. Only the outputs on the back of the GPU will be enabled which ensures you get the benefit of the higher performance GPU by forcing you to connect your monitors to the graphics card. Usually if your CPU includes built in graphics, it will be disabled when the computer includes a separate discrete GPU card. Gain additional performance from your Intel iGPU when also using a graphics card
