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DeltaMac

macrumors G5
Jul 30, 2003
13,462
4,408
Delaware
If you are asking about dedicated video memory -
The Iris video chip on that model does not have dedicated (hardware) memory, but shares with the main memory, and uses more as needed, up to 1GB.
 

vjicecool

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Jul 16, 2010
325
5
If you are asking about dedicated video memory -
The Iris video chip on that model does not have dedicated (hardware) memory, but shares with the main memory, and uses more as needed, up to 1GB.

i was asking in the intent to play video games on that mac, do you recommend it
 

NT1440

macrumors G5
May 18, 2008
14,670
21,063
The cap actually went up beyond 1GB in Mavericks, if anyone could find the WWDC video on it I'd appreciate it.
 

DeltaMac

macrumors G5
Jul 30, 2003
13,462
4,408
Delaware
Sure.
You also asked the video memory question about 4 months ago.
If your question is REALLY about game play, and how well your MBPro will do games, there's a bunch of threads here that try to answer that to some degree.
Here's one specifically about the Iris 5100 (in the late 2013 13-inch MBPro)
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1672176/
 

hamiltonDSi

macrumors 68000
Jul 29, 2012
1,588
273
Romania
Iris Pro takes 1.5 GB on OS X 10.9.3.
 

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vjicecool

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Jul 16, 2010
325
5
Sure.
You also asked the video memory question about 4 months ago.
If your question is REALLY about game play, and how well your MBPro will do games, there's a bunch of threads here that try to answer that to some degree.
Here's one specifically about the Iris 5100 (in the late 2013 13-inch MBPro)
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1672176/

i think i was referring to an older version of mac at that time
 

leman

macrumors Core
Oct 14, 2008
19,200
19,060
no man i am talking about on mac
there is a version of gta v, which you can play on mac
i saw on torrents site

In case I was not clear before, I will repeat it. GTA 5 has not been released on the PC platform (this includes Mac) . There are no versions, legal or otherwise. What you saw was either a trojan or maybe some earlier GTA game.
 

snaky69

macrumors 603
Mar 14, 2008
5,908
488
i was asking in the intent to play video games on that mac, do you recommend it

VRAM doesn't matter all that much for games, that's usually not the limiting factor. The thing that does limit a graphics card is it's actual computing power.

Iris is a step in a good direction as far as integrated graphics go. But it's no match for an actual, dedicated graphics card for gaming.
 

vjicecool

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Jul 16, 2010
325
5
In case I was not clear before, I will repeat it. GTA 5 has not been released on the PC platform (this includes Mac) . There are no versions, legal or otherwise. What you saw was either a trojan or maybe some earlier GTA game.

look on the pirate sites man you will find one with instruction on how to install and play
 

leman

macrumors Core
Oct 14, 2008
19,200
19,060
look on the pirate sites man you will find one with instruction on how to install and play

You are either a scammer trying to get people to install known malware, or, well, I can't really write this here or they will ban me :D

At any rate, good luck with your fake game installers.
 

scrmtrey

macrumors regular
Mar 28, 2013
218
15
It depends on how much memory do you have installed in mac. More memory = more video ram
 
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