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Graphics Processing Unit, a processor dedicated to producing the display output.

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I have a 16" MacBook Pro with M3 Max CPU and 48 GB of RAM. Currently I have macOS Tahoe 26.1 installed. Before the release of Tahoe, I was running macOS Sequoia and was generally very happy with ...
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I have Xcode 15 installed in Sonoma on a mid 2014 MBP 15" (not officially supported hardware — uses OCLP). There is a big issue with rendering Storyboards, which corrupts not just the rendering ...
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Whenever I connect my Intel MacBook Pro to an external 4K-display and playback video on YouTube or on a video call, for example, CPU usage on kernel_task gradually increases until all 8 cores are at ...
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I have a 2011, 15" MacBook Pro (running 10.6.8) with the defunct, AMD(?) graphics chip. I'm trying to connect to a 23" Apple Cinema Display using a brand-new Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter (...
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Sorry this might be a bad question, but why isn't the iGPU being used at all for playing video? Shouldn't it be used at least a little for encoding/decoding video? I have hardware acceleration and ...
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I have a 2019 Macbook Pro with an AMD Radeon Pro 5500M graphics processor plus Intel integrated graphics. When I connect the laptop to a StarTech Triple Monitor USB 3.0 Docking Station that has 2 ...
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My MBP display has been flickering, laggy, and unresponsive many times. At times, it gets stuck like this picture for minutes on end, and maybe recovers, or I have to shut it down. I tried a bunch of ...
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I have a Mid 2010 MPB 15". When the Logic Board failed due to the dGPU kernel panic, I had a tech install a program to remove or disable the dGPU. Since then I have now replaced the logic board ...
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I know the Geforce 9400M in the Unibody Macbook uses shared VRAM with the memory, but since upgrading from 2GB to 8GB I haven't seen an increase in allocation. Why is this, and is there any way to ...
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I have a flashed a MacPro5,1 running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and a Geforce GTX 760 GPU with the latest supported CUDA library installed at a compute capability 3. Mathematica 11 uses the GPU quite ...
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I would like to be able to open Activity Monitor and see 0 in the GPU% column for that process. All I have are an intel integrated graphics on an intel based Mac. I'm willing to entertain ...
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How can I set a hard cap on how much of the GPU an app is allowed to use? Like AppPolice, but for GPU, and preferably not a third-party program but please recommend me those anyway (I couldn't find ...
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According to multiple listings on eGPU chassis, like this one, M1 Macbooks are not supported. I have two questions, are any supported? And if not, why? Is this a limitation of the software that could ...
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I just installed Whisper AI to transcribe voice to text. Apparently it does support running on GPU, which should be much more efficient than using the CPU, but I fail to do that. I have read this ...
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My MacBook Pro's built-in display started flickering (screen goes black) a few weeks ago. Most of the time the flickering stops by itself randomly after a couple of minutes. The thing is, when I ...
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