Cannot use dedicated gpu on my laptop

I have a Ryzen 5 4600H and an GeForce GTX 1650 on my laptop however Garuda is using my ryzens onboard graphics instead and I can't figure out how to switch to my Dedicated GPU.

Welcome @PhantomX :wave:

Are drivers installed? Better details gets better help btw. :slightly_smiling_face:

Post output of inxi -Fxxxza

as text, please

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System:    Kernel: 5.11.8-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-03-24_15-45-21/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen 
           root=UUID=ad77ba46-f33f-4503-9590-226c9dc43f14 quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 
           vt.global_cursor_default=0 systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 loglevel=3 
           rootflags=defaults,noatime,space_cache,autodefrag,compress=zstd,subvol=timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-03-24_15-45-21/@ 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.3 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM 
           Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: GPU product: GWTN156-2BK v: Standard serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: GPU model: GPU Company v: Standard serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends 
           v: N.1.15ESI01 date: 08/10/2020 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 46.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 46.7/46.7 Wh (100.0%) volts: 12.9 min: 11.4 
           model: standard type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:       Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 
           family: 17 (23) model-id: 60 (96) stepping: 1 microcode: 8600103 cache: L2: 3 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 71864 
           Speed: 2689 MHz min/max: 1400/3000 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2689 2: 2490 
           3: 1397 4: 1397 5: 1397 6: 1397 7: 3149 8: 1397 9: 1397 10: 1397 11: 2069 12: 1936 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 
           mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA TU117M vendor: Tongfang Hongkong Limited driver: nvidia v: 460.67 
           alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f99 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: AMD Renoir vendor: Tongfang Hongkong Limited driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.0 
           chip-ID: 1002:1636 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-3: Chicony HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:4 chip-ID: 04f2:b642 
           class-ID: 0e02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: modesetting 
           display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
           Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 120 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") 
           diag: 395mm (15.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.40.0 5.11.8-zen1-1-zen LLVM 11.1.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.4 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Tongfang Hongkong Limited driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.11.8-zen1-1-zen running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
           Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
           Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.24 running: no 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Tongfang Hongkong Limited driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 
           chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 
           chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-4:3 chip-ID: 8087:0029 
           class-ID: e001 
           Report: ID: hci0 state: up address: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 31.7 GiB (13.3%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 model: PM8256GPTCB4B8TF-E13T2A size: 238.47 GiB block-size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: EDFM00.5 temp: 14.8 C scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 97.66 GiB size: 97.66 GiB (100.00%) used: 31.68 GiB (32.4%) fs: btrfs 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%) used: 19 MiB (19.7%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
           ID-3: /home raw-size: 97.66 GiB size: 97.66 GiB (100.00%) used: 31.68 GiB (32.4%) fs: btrfs 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 
           ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 97.66 GiB size: 97.66 GiB (100.00%) used: 31.68 GiB (32.4%) fs: btrfs 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 
           ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 97.66 GiB size: 97.66 GiB (100.00%) used: 31.68 GiB (32.4%) fs: btrfs 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 75 (default 100) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 618.9 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram0 
           ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 618.9 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram1 
           ID-3: swap-3 type: zram size: 618.9 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram2 
           ID-4: swap-4 type: zram size: 618.9 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram3 
           ID-5: swap-5 type: zram size: 618.9 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram4 
           ID-6: swap-6 type: zram size: 618.9 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram5 
           ID-7: swap-7 type: zram size: 618.9 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram6 
           ID-8: swap-8 type: zram size: 618.9 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram7 
           ID-9: swap-9 type: zram size: 618.9 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram8 
           ID-10: swap-10 type: zram size: 618.9 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram9 
           ID-11: swap-11 type: zram size: 618.9 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram10 
           ID-12: swap-12 type: zram size: 618.9 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram11 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 37.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 341 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.25 GiB used: 2.72 GiB (37.5%) Init: systemd 
           v: 247 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1392 lib: 354 
           Shell: fish v: 3.2.1 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.03 

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