I've handled three 2011 MacBook Pros (none of them my own-I had an Air back then), and all three of them were scrapped because of the GPU issue. The problem was so rampant, Apple was forced to set up a free repair program for affected MacBook Pros-though the 2011 model has since been dropped from that program. There was a major flaw in the AMD Radeon GPUs included with that model year's logic board which seemed to cause GPU failure either due to overheating, internal chip problems, BGA solder joints getting broken, or a combination of the above. The 2011 MacBook Pro has, for almost a decade, been the exception to that rule. I don't think they will be back on MacBook line, not unless ATI/AMD screw up BIG TIME.I've been a Mac user for years, and I've repaired hundreds of different Macs, from the early II series to the latest 20 model MacBook Pros, iMacs (and other Apple hardware to boot!), and there is almost never a hardware situation where I've thrown in the towel and told someone to ditch their Mac. So yeh, my suggestion is, stick with NVIDIA if you can, or pray that problem goes away with driver release from ATI/APPLE which could take a while (or never).īut yeh, on MAC it really is too bad that Apple seems to be parting ways with NVIDIA as well. I now have MacBook 13" mid-2010 with NVIDIA 320 integrated GPU and it runs Unity flawlessly - I put it through many stress tests and ran various games on it and never once had any problem with it. (Probably due to the fact large number of NVIDIA engineers were from SGI) NVIDIA's support for OpenGL (and DirectX) has been rock solid and hasn't fail me once. When I use NVIDIA cards with 3D programs I never had any of such problem once. ATI is fine if you just play games as they seems to specifically tune their hardware for DirectX performance on gaming cards, but for 3D programs that use OpenGL my experience with ATI cards has been horrible time and time again.
All had various issues that would cause headaches in various 3D programs.
I have experienced many many such issues in the past from their extremely high end FireGL cards on expensive workstations down to desktop gaming cards and also laptop mobile GPU. ATI (AMD) has been historically terrible in driver release, both in stability/compatibility and speed of release to fix problems.
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