- Mac
- System Tools
- System Optimization
- gfxCardStatus
gfxCardStatus
Description
Manually control graphics cards of your MacBook Pro and switch between them while running power-hungry graphics to increase your laptop battery life. View the details of the currently used GPU and the power source. Enable a battery-friendly graphics card in the 'Integrated only' mode or use a more power-hungry one in the 'Discrete Only' mode.
Download of gfxCardStatus 2.5 for Mac was available from the developer's website when we last checked. We cannot confirm if there is a free download of this app available. The actual developer of this free Mac application is Cody Krieger.
The unique identifier for this app's bundle is com.codykrieger.gfxCardStatus. This free application works fine with Mac OS X 10.7 or later. Please check the Mac app with an antivirus before launch as it is downloaded from the developer's website, and we cannot ensure that it is safe. The application's installer is commonly called gfxcardstatus-2.3.zip or gfxCardStatus-1.7.5.zip etc. The most popular versions of gfxCardStatus for Mac are 2.3 and 1.7. The application lies within System Tools, more precisely System Optimization.
From the developer:
gfxCardStatus is a free menu bar application that keeps track of which graphics card your MacBook Pro is using at any given time.
Features:
- Simple, clean "i" and "n" icons that signify Intel HD Graphics, and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics, respectively.
- Automatically updates when the GPU switches, in real time.
- Dependent process list: see which applications are currently using the 330M, if it's the active GPU!
You may want to check out more software for Mac, such as switchGPU, which might be similar to gfxCardStatus.
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