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by bjpbakker 2743 days ago
> I have no reason to suspect that Apple broke hardware they themselves sold

In fact my own 15" MBP late 2013 has a GFX750, which is no longer supported according to Apple Support [1].

The worst for me is that this didn't withold Apple from pushing the update, so running Mojave with an external monitor is hardly possible now.

> Nvidia is not a "good" company.

Agreed. Neither is Apple.

[1] - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208898
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joshstrange 2742 days ago
> In fact my own 15" MBP late 2013 has a GFX750, which is no longer supported according to Apple Support [1]

That support article doesn't mention the GFX 750 and I can't find any record of Apple selling a MBP with a GFX 750...

Edit:

I believe what you meant to say is you have a "NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching" [0] which it appears does not support metal.

[0] https://support.apple.com/kb/sp690?locale=en_US

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minimaul 2742 days ago
Metal's supported on that card. Works on a GT650M too, from a 2012 rMBP.
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bjpbakker 2742 days ago
You're correct about the card, sorry about that. Got confused I suppose. Indeed I meant to say I have the GT 750.
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joshstrange 2742 days ago
I should have added this in my edit but I'll put it here:

I stand corrected. I DO think it's wrong for Apple to drop support for something they shipped, especially since it's just over 4 years old. I thought this issue was limited to people who had Mac Pro's or Hackintosh's and put an unsupported card in it. I'll admit I've only used 13" MBP's for the last 10+ years until my most recent MBP and so dedicated graphic cards wasn't in my wheelhouse. I honestly thought they stopped ALL Nvidia cards back in 2009ish.

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johnmw 2741 days ago
As a sibling comment pointed out, it seems it does appear to be supported? I have the same machine:

  Chipset Model:	NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
  Type:	GPU
  Bus:	PCIe
  PCIe Lane Width:	x8
  VRAM (Dynamic, Max):	2048 MB
  Vendor:	NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Device ID:	0x0fe9
  Revision ID:	0x00a2
  ROM Revision:	3776
  Automatic Graphics Switching:	Supported
  gMux Version:	4.0.8 [3.2.8]
  Metal:	Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily1 v4
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