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A great rule of thumb is that Macs older than 2012 are non-Metal, with the exception of systems having upgradable GPUs.
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GPUs that support Metal are as follows:
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Due to deprecation of OpenGL, many newer applications may require Metal rendering and as such will fail to run on systems with Non-Metal GPUs. Some built-in apps like Maps and everything relying on it (such as Find My) will fail to render as well on versions later than Big Sur.
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::: details Metal supported GPUs
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* Intel HD 4000 series (Ivy Bridge/3rd gen) and newer
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* AMD HD 7000 series and newer (GCN 1)
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* AMD HD 7000 series (GCN 1) and newer
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* NVIDIA GTX 600 and 700 series (Kepler)
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Everything older than mentioned are Non-Metal and therefore only support OpenGL. Non-Metal also includes NVIDIA Maxwell (GTX 900 series) and Pascal (GTX 1000 series) when used with patched Web Drivers on newer than macOS High Sierra.
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Due to deprecation of OpenGL, many newer applications may require Metal rendering and as such will fail to run on systems with Non-Metal GPUs. Some built-in apps like Maps and everything relying on it (such as Find My) will fail to render as well on versions later than Big Sur.
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Refer to [Supported models,](https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/MODELS.html) the [Non-Metal GitHub issue](https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/issues/108) and [Working Around Non-Metal Issues](https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/ACCEL.html) pages for more information.
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