Predator Helios 300 vs. Task Manager GPU usage; is my discrete RTX 2060 doing anything?

Hi,

I run photogrammetry software on my ACER Predator Helios 300, i7-10750h, RTX 2060. The major draw of this machine was the discrete GPU usage, and it sure feels like it's on, based on heat and on fan auto settings...HOWEVER: when I check my system monitor on Task Manager, it says the Intel UHD GPU (laaame) is at work for 3D but the RTX 2060 is only using gRAM:

what gives? Is the windows firmware messed up, leading to the Intel readings vs. the PredatorSense information suggesting my RTX 2060 is hard at work here? Ju

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Any insight from the community would be greatly appreciated. I'm very curious what's happening here and if there's anything I can do to redirect the 3D processing from the Intel to the NVIDIA chip, which inspired me to buy this laptop in the first place.

Maybe I'm a total **** here. Intuitively I trust NVIDIA and ACER's PredatorSense monitoring software over Task Manager, but I find the situation kinda sus and maybe there are others who've seen something similar. If it's an issue, I'd love to share it with the dev team for the software I use (Agisoft Metashape) because I'm sure they'd rather their software occupy the flops of a beefier GPU like the RTX 2060 than the onboard Intel

Thanks for your time and attention and advice in advance.

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mikerrhizal make sure to force setup the software/games you want to run on the dgpu manually on nvcp per app/game also msi ab would give u the most accurate dgpu readings and for the cpu hwinfo or hw monitor and bare in mind using ps or any other real time monitoring software not minimized it will always be using about 25% of your cpu if not minimized and all ps services also use way more than 1gb ram and yes windows metrics are always good to screw things up most times with false not accurate info