I hope you found this simple solution useful. This concludes Switching between graphics cards with a Macbook Pro. At the time of this writing, there were no Windows drivers provided by Apple to allow you to switch between the 9400M and 9600M GT video cards. Side Notes: If you run Windows XP or Windows Vista on your Macbook Pro, the nVidia 9600M GT video card is used by default. To Switch back to the 9400M video card, you can use the same procedure selecting the B etter Battery Life Graphics option instead. The System will proceed to log you out and then back in utilizing the 9600M GT for Performance.
Once prompted, click Log Out to Change Graphics Settings. Now, select Energy Saver from the System Preferences Window.įrom the Energy Saver menu, check the Higher Performance Graphics Option. Click the System Preferences Icon from your Macbook Dock.Here is how to switch between the two cards. But when you need pure graphical performance, the powerful 9600M GT can be made available on demand. On some Macbook Pro models, the lower wattage nVidia 9400M is used by default to help extend battery life. The HBM2 memory inside the Radeon Pro 5600M runs at 1.54 Gbps. If that reduction doesn’t bother you or you are not one to venture into the world of PC building, there are plenty of options for your Thunderbolt-equipped laptop including offerings from Gigabyte, Akitio, and Sonnet the latter of which Apple sells to its developers.Switching Between Graphics Cards Macbook Pro: In the following simple solution, I will explain how to switch between the nVidia 9400M and the nVidia 9600M GT video graphics cards on a Macbook Pro. The biggest surprise with the Radeon Pro 5600M is the multi-chip format that enables AMD to ditch the GDDR6 memory for speedy HBM2. Reduction in power has been reported anywhere from 10-20% depending on the model and the graphics card. It is no surprise that the over $700 graphics card outperforms both the AMD Radeon Pro 460 and Intel Integrated graphics, but what Hilsenteger fails to mention, however, is that when using an external graphics card housing the user will take a performance hit compared to a desktop user. With the introduction of the Thunderbolt 3, however, came transfer speeds up to 40 Gbps utilizing PCIe 3.0 ×4 link, or speeds fast enough to run the fastest RAID arrays or external graphics cards. Lewis Hilsenteger over at Unbox Therapy demos one such device that is compatible with the MacBook Pro.Īpple introduced external graphics card capability with their latest operating system macOS High Sierra 10.13 and Hilsenteger runs synthetic benchmarks on his system to show how much more powerful the AMD Vega 64 is when inserted into the Mantiz Venus compared to the integrated graphics in his laptop. One of the most notable commercial ventures for external graphics card housings was the Alienware Graphic Amplifier, which wasn’t all that much of a commercial success.
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