Is it some Looking Glass [1] kind of thing, or did they add physical ports to some unused traces or something?
Big, display-less GPU renders frame, image is copied into VRAM of smaller GPU with a display. Smaller GPU draws image to screen.
Most of the gamer laptops do this. There's no physical link between the display and the big GPU. I believe the mobile cards enable a second DMA engine that is usually soft locked on GeForce to handle the transfer.
Midas3 (1996) https://vintage3d.org/midas3.php
PCX1 (1996) https://vintage3d.org/pcx1.php
and PCX2 (1997) https://vintage3d.org/pcx2.php
Tomb Raider running 1024x768 30FPS on a card half the cost of 3Dfx Voodoo1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GMesT4WKzI It could even run up to 60FPS at 640x480, the best hardware platform running Tomb Raider, and only one allowing over 30FPS.