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But there are sufficient options to help extend the battery life.

Note: You may not see the Video Card heading if you have a MacBook Pro with Apple silicon (M1, M2, and their successors.) Plus, you may not see the Automatic graphics switching option in System Preferences.

You might see some variant of Intel integrated graphics, whether it’s the Intel Iris Pro or Intel HD graphics. More than likely, this is going to be the case if you have a lower-end MacBook Pro. If you only see one graphics source in this list, it means you don’t have two graphics processing units. You can tell if you have two GPUs by going to  → About this Mac → System Report → Graphics/Displays on your Mac.Īs you can see from my report, my 2012 15” MacBook Pro with Retina display has both an AMD Radeon M9 graphics card and the Intel Iris Pro integrated graphics: 4) What to do if you don’t see the Automatic graphics switching option on Mac? How to tell if you have dual GPUs