![]() The MacBook Air ships with Intel HD Graphics 6000, and the MacBook includes Intel HD Graphics 5300. In comparison, the current top 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro ships with either Intel's Iris Graphics 6100 or Intel Iris Pro Graphics and AMD's Radeon R9 M370X. That doesn't mean my three year old Mac laptop definitely won't be able to take advantage of Metal, but based on the limited information available today it doesn't look promising.Ībout This Mac shows which video card is in your computer My 2012 Retina MacBook Pro shipped with Nvidia's GeForce GT 650M, which sure doesn't look like a GTX-level card to me. ![]() Look for the Graphics entry under the Overview tab. ![]() You can see which graphics card is in your Mac by clicking the Apple menu and choosing About This Mac. Intel HD4000 and newer (Ivy Bridge or newer).Nvidia GeForce GTX 400 series and newer.Here's the unofficial requirements based on research: Metal is coming to the Mac, but not all modelsīased on the driver software developers have found so far, it looks like support is there for graphics cards from Nvidia, Intel, and AMD. ![]() There isn't any official word yet on which Macs will support Metal, but we do have some idea of what to expect thanks to the efforts of developers who have been digging through the El Capitan beta. When OS X El Capitan ships this fall we should see some big improvements in performance on our Macs thans to Metal, which is Apple's system for vastly improving how our computers handle graphics.
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