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Mac with integrated or dedicated GPU for FabFilter plugins?

Hi,

I am considering to buy a new MacBook Pro or iMac for Logic Pro X and FabFilter plugins (Mastering bundle).

Would a dedicated GPU be better for the FF plugins' graphics acceleration usage? Would Logic's and the plugins' overall performance even benefit at all from a dedicated GPU or would the integrated Intel Iris GPU be sufficient?

Sven — Sep 14, 2016

Hi Sven,

Earlier 13" Retina MacBook Pros were struggling a bit with our interface acceleration, but I believe every Retina MacBook Pro that you can buy today will have plenty of GPU power for our purposes, especially the 15" ones. Same goes for the iMacs. I don't think the GPU is used by Logic for processing.

Cheers,

Frederik (FabFilter) — Sep 15, 2016

I have a late 2013 MBP Retina (lowest confuguration... 2,4 GHz, 8 GB RAM) and the FabFilter plugins' GUI caused system overload errors with Logic until I disabled the graphics acceleration.

Sven — Sep 15, 2016

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