Why does Settings | About say "Mesa Intel" instead of "Nvidia" when using Wayland?

The Graphics section of the Settings | About page under Wayland in Ubuntu 20.04 is confusing me.

It claims that I am using Intel graphics, while all other system information indicates that I am using Nvidia graphics.

When I log into a Wayland session, the Graphics section states:

Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) / Mesa Intel® UHD Graphic...

However, when I log into an XOrg session, the Graphics section states:

NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX150] / Mesa Intel® UHD Gra...

Under both Wayland and XOrg sessions, the Software & Updates app consistently shows:

Using NVIDIA driver metapackage from nvidia-driver-455 (proprietary, tested)

Is it normal for Ubuntu in Wayland to not list NVIDIA on the Settings | About page?

Or am I over looking something?

To ensure Nvidia would be active in Wayland, I took the following steps:

1. Installed the Nvidia drivers using:

    ubuntu-drivers --gpgpu autoinstall nvidia 

2. Enabled Wayland option on GDM in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf.

    grep "WaylandEnable" /etc/gdm3/custom.conf WaylandEnable=true 

3. Removed the rule disabling Wayland on GDM with Nvidia in /lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules.

    grep "DRIVER" /lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules # DRIVER=="nvidia", RUN+="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-disable-wayland" 

4. Blacklisted Nouveau in Grub in /etc/default/grub.

    grep GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash modprobe.blacklist=nouveau" 

Here is the output of various commands showing graphics information, if they help.

sudo lshw -C display *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 07 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:151 memory:db000000-dbffffff memory:70000000-7fffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff *-display description: 3D controller product: GP108M [GeForce MX150] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 resources: irq:153 memory:dc000000-dcffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff memory:c0000000-c1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:dd000000-dd07ffff 

...

lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07) DeviceName: Onboard IGD Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company UHD Graphics 620 Kernel driver in use: i915 -- 00:13.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Integrated Sensor Hub (rev 21) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Sunrise Point-LP Integrated Sensor Hub Kernel driver in use: intel_ish_ipc Kernel modules: intel_ish_ipc -- 01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX150] (rev a1) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company GP108M [GeForce MX150] Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia 

...

lsmod | grep nvidia nvidia_uvm 1007616 0 nvidia_drm 53248 0 nvidia_modeset 1216512 1 nvidia_drm nvidia 27701248 20 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset drm_kms_helper 184320 2 nvidia_drm,i915 drm 491520 9 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm,i915 

...

nvidia-smi Tue Dec 29 22:43:33 2020 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 455.38 Driver Version: 455.38 CUDA Version: 11.1 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | | | | MIG M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 GeForce MX150 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A | | N/A 39C P8 N/A / N/A | 0MiB / 2002MiB | 0% Default | | | | N/A | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=============================================================================| | No running processes found | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 

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sudo prime-select query on-demand 

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