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Lukasamd
Copper Contributor
Oct 13, 2019

Unnecessary using dedicated GPU on Mac on battery - drain battery

Hello, I use latest Edge Dev on MacOS on MBP 15 2018. Edge is very nice, but has one important "bug" related to almost all chromium-based browsers. It sometimes uses dedicated GPU (Radeon) instead o...
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HotCakeX
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Oct 13, 2019
Hi,
apart from that 3rd party tool you mentioned, does MacOS itself have option to allow choosing a specific graphic card for each individual app like Windows does?
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    Lukasamd
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 14, 2019

    HotCakeX No, MacOS doesn't have any panel/options for that. There is only option to disable auto-switching GPUs and force to use Radeon. In effect, it's superb important that apps should avoid using Radeon on battery.

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      HotCakeX
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      Oct 14, 2019
      Yes of course it'd drain the battery faster

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