Comment on Safari is more energy-efficient than Chrome and Firefox on OS XComments−SG-11yI believe it's actually worse on a 15" MacBook Pro which has a dedicated GPU along with the Intel GPU. Chrome seems to force using the dedicated GPU over the onboard even at app launch which I assume drains even more power.−x005411yhttps://gfx.io/ will let you lock it in onboard gpu mode. I only use the discrete card for games and video editing.
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I believe it's actually worse on a 15" MacBook Pro which has a dedicated GPU along with the Intel GPU. Chrome seems to force using the dedicated GPU over the onboard even at app launch which I assume drains even more power.
https://gfx.io/ will let you lock it in onboard gpu mode. I only use the discrete card for games and video editing.