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A high-powered gaming card is for more intense applications like Photoshop or Call of Duty.

Having dynamic switching graphics is like being able to open the computer and put in a different graphics card for different scenarios, except you don’t have to dissect your MacBook Pro. The difference between integrated and discrete graphics is power – both consumption and horsepower to get work done. When your system needs a lot of graphics processing power for things like video encoding, picture editing or especially gaming, the computer switches from lowered powered integrated graphics to higher powered discrete graphics. The MacBook Pro has what is called switchable or dynamic switching graphics. If you ever want to know which graphics card your Apple MacBook Pro is using, then gfxcardstatus is the perfect utility.