#2012 MACBOOK PRO GPU UPDATE UPDATE#

#2012 MACBOOK PRO GPU UPDATE UPDATE#

Update 10/23: I added the new late 2012 Macs to the list. I also assume that the Intel HD 3000 is capable of OpenGL 3.3 as 3.3 was intended to вЂbackportвЂ™ GL 4 features that donвЂ™t rely on new hardware features to older hardware.

Update 6/18: As Christophe Riccio pointed out, all AMD Radeon 50 should be capable of OpenGL 4.2. To sum everything up: Apple, where are my OpenGL 4 drivers? Most All of your Macs could already support it! More information about the supported OpenGL features and extensions on MacOS X can be found here. Whenever I'm doing anything GPU-intensive (games or CUDA simulations), after about 30 minutes, the chassis gets extremely hot (enough so that my hands sweat if hovering over the keyboard or typing) and the app in question either crashes with an. OpenGL 4 capable iMacs and MacPros began even to appear in mid 2010 (but I limited this list to go back only to 2011)вЂ¦ I have a mid-2012 Retina Pro (loaded: 16GB RAM, 768GB SSD, etc.), with annoying heat issues. This chip is not only capable of delivering OpenGL 4.2 but also shiny new features like bindless textures: one way of supporting Virtual Texturing in hardware and maybe something we will see in some form in OpenGL 5.0. When we look at the currently available Macs we will find out, that just the MacMini is still stuck with an Intel HD 3000 and thus is not capable of OpenGL 4 (but you could even buy a Mini with a decent GPU): The latest MacBook Pro just got a GeForce 650M a Kepler based GPU. This is the latest laptop from apple and is ridiculously powerful.

This makes it just more depressing that Apple limits this chip to just OpenGL 3.2 вЂ“ something a G80 from 2006 can also deliver (in fact, on other operating systems a G80 would give you OpenGL 3.3). Up for sale is my silver 2021 14' MacBook Pro. The latest MacBook Pro just got a GeForce 650M вЂ“ a Kepler based GPU.

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