Gfxcardstatus 1.712/18/2023 Yes, as long Affinity is opened, also the door to GPU is open, or like Apple says, Affinity " creates an OpenGL context". To me there is no new energy info in your "About."-windows. As Apple themselves state, this is how you tell when your graphics card is awake and active. My screenshot has given you the wrong impression of what I'm implying. Note: if you use an external monitor with your macbook the GPU is active automatically and can't be stopped. Possibly you may want to post a feature request on the Feedback forum to become enabled to prevent the use of discrete GPUs in Affinity manually (– with the disadvantage of reduced speed while working with Affinity). "By default, once your application creates an OpenGL context (.), the MacBook Pro automatically switches to the higher-end discrete GPU for performance concerns and won't switch back until the application quits." For instance this apple info (2013 ?) said: It appears there is no choice for an app running in macOS to switch between CPU and GPU during a session. shown in this screenshot for two Apple applications: In Activity Monitor all apps which demand the GPU show the YES all time, regardless of their napping state, e.g. The "Yes" in this column just says that an app gets access to this processor – it doesn't inform about actual energy usage or battery drain of that app. Like macOS apps also Affinity can hardly influence such "kept awake". These two screenshots show that the battery menu is not syncronised with the Activity Monitor but it names apps which obviously don't use significant energy usage at that moment:ĭuring app nap, the discrete graphics card should not be kept awake. The energy usage in Activity Monitor changes quite often, even if I don't work in any app besides Activity Monitor. So an app can appear in the battery menu even if it has used a lot energy for a short moment only, for instance at application start to render preview images of a document containing many images. Similar with the battery info, which doesn't show high usage at a specific moment but for a longer average period. Some apps run only in this mode, others never. The Graphics Card "Yes" is rather a permanent entry and doesn't give info about any current usage, it says "Yes" if an app demands this graphic card at all. Possibly you misread both the graphic card info in Activity Monitor and the significant energy usage info in the battery menu. Publisher is keeping the discrete graphics card on my MacBook Pro alive
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