On Windows operating systems, dedicated video card management It is always available to the user. Whether we are talking about a video card Radeon or NVIDIA, settings and control center of graphic card They are available both in Systray (System Tray-the corner of tools and notifications on the right) as well as in "Menu context" or "Windows Settings".
At Macbook Pro, MacBook and iMac Pro With the dedicated video card, its presence is a little more discreet. More than that, on new MacBook and MacBook Pro models that support "Automatic Graphics Switching"This is not permanently activated but only when the system and applications require it. I saw in This article How to permanently activate the graphics card on a MacBook Pro 2017 / 2016 cu “graphics switching”.
When the graphics card is active, for many poppies it is quite difficult to figure out what type of graphics card installed on the system or if it really exists. I also met situations in which a user had the MacBook Pro with the dedicated plate and did not know this.
Active graphic plates can be seen in "Apple"(Click on the left logo) →"About This Mac” → “Overview“.
How can we see what kind of graphics card (Grephic Card) we have installed on the MacBook Pro / MacBook / Imac Pro
To get a complete view of all hardware From our system, in "About This Mac"We click and open"System Report…”.
In “System Report"We go to the list on the left side and select"Graphics/Displays". On the right side, under" video cards "will appear the video plates present on the system. Both the integrated one and the dedicated video card.
If you know for sure that your Mac has a dedicated video card and it is not present in this report, it means that you are not in the happiest scenario. It may be a hardware problem or in the happiest case one of the operating system. Reinstall the maccos operating system, then check again if the video card appears in System Report. If this does not happen, go to an Apple authorized service to solve the problem.
