Resolved MBP 15 Inch ATI 6970 Not in Use

[DeadLegend]

I just got my mbp and when I looked in my system profiler, I found that my ATI 6970 1GB card was not the default, and appeared to not be in use. Is this a normal setting, can I change it, will the ati card kick in when it is necessary?

 

[pianist1016]

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/performance.html

scroll to the part where it talks about graphics card. the mbp automatically switches to the ATI card so you are fine.

 

[DeadLegend]

Thanks

Thats what I thought would happen, thank you for confirming.

 

[DustinT]

gfxCardStatus is a great utility for checking and assigning which video card your MBP is using. Its a good way to save power when you are unplugged.

 

[blazeken996]

Hold on... How did you get a 6970m in a 15 Inch? I thought it only came with 6750 or 6490?

 

[redsteven]

Hold on... How did you get a 6970m in a 15 Inch? I thought it only came with 6750 or 6490?

lol I was about to say the same thing

gfxCardStatus is a great utility for checking and assigning which video card your MBP is using. Its a good way to save power when you are unplugged.

ditto

 

[dusk007]

maybe he was dreaming he had a 6970M.
A GPU that sucks more power than the MBP power adapter can provide. It would be quite useless such a Notebook.

@op Seriously use gfxCardStatus. The problem with Apple's idiotic autoswitching is not that the AMD GPU gets used but rather that it gets used for all kinds of stuff that it isn't necessary and just kills battery life. Run Skype in the Background and it seems to think the AMD GPU is necessary.