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Unity does not use a high-performance graphic card on macOS 10.15.1?

Discussion in 'Editor & General Support' started by noclew, Dec 6, 2019.

  1. noclew

    noclew

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    I am using Unity on MacBook Pros Catalina (10.15.1) installed. However, it seems that Unity does not use a high-performance graphics card regardless of whether I turn automatic switching on or off, even if I designated a GPU device in the Unity's preference menu.

    The first image below shows the case when the automatic GPU switching on. As shown here, Unity uses an integrated GPU.


    [with automatic graphics switching on]


    The second image below shows the case when the automatic GPU switching off. Even in this case, it does not seem that Unity is using a high-performance one considering the Graphics Card column of the unity processors shows No for all. But in this case, I am not too sure if Unity is actually using a high-performance GPU although it says no on Activity Monitor. However, I am not positive about this considering that the Unity editor's performance is the same as the case of an integrated card.



    [with automatic graphics switching off]

    I tested this issue with two machines, MBP 15" with Radeon 560 and MPT 16" with Radeon 5500M, and both machines exhibited the same behavior.

    [As a comparison, Adobe Illustrator works as expected]

    As a comparison, all other apps, such as Illustrator or Photoshop, that are supposed to use a high-performance graphics card behave as expected. Even when the automatic switching is on, they run on a high-performance graphics card and Activity Monitor shows they are actually using it.

    Is this a normal behavior that is expected? If so, is there any way that I can use a high-performance GPU for Unity with an automatic switching option enabled? I do not want to use a high-performance GPU all the time, so it will be best if Unity can automatically use a high-performance GPU when it runs.

    Any input will be greatly appreciated.
     
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  2. ayruos

    ayruos

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    I have run into the same problem... tested with both 2019.2 and 2019.3.

    With the VFX Graph running, the editor seems to be glitching out a bit too (why I looked into what GPU it was using)... and finding a solution for this would be good.
     
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