Topic: Avoiding ASIO dropouts with Intel HD Graphics or hybrid graphics
It helps to use dual channel memory as the memory bandwidth is doubled compared to single channel memory. Intel HD Graphics 630 when rendering graphics can use up all the available memory bandwidth with single channel memory so there is not enough memory bandwidth leftover to process audio at low latency.
I was getting audio dropouts whenever the Intel GPU is being used - I have an NVIDIA Optimus Windows 10 laptop and I have it set to prefer to NVIDIA graphics but Desktop Window Manager always runs on the Intel GPU (as seen in Task Manager as there is a GPU usage graph for each GPU) with no ability to change it in NVIDIA Control Panel or Windows settings. Desktop Window Manager will use the Intel GPU when switching applications (alt+tab, win+tab), resizing windows, snapping windows side-by-side, navigating the start menu, etc. This issue affected every USB audio interface I used. I fixed it by upgrading from single channel DDR4-2400 memory to dual channel DDR4-2400 memory which doubled the memory bandwidth.
Just thought this would be useful for people to know.