How to know a natural resolution of Retina display?

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How to know a natural resolution of Retina display?

I have MacBook Pro, 15 inch, touch bar, 2018. According to Apple it has a retina display with 2880x1800 resolution. And according to internal application "About this Mac" also the display has 2880x1800. But, according to all other applications, games, for instance, or resolution switches the monitor has a maximum resolution 3360x2100. And in the official system preference application the default resolution for the monitor is 1680x1050 which is a natural half scale for the 3360x2100, but not 1440x900 with will be a natural half scale for the 2880x1800.

So is the question. How to know what is true maximum (natural) resolution for my monitor indeed? Yep, I want set half scale of it to common office work.

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.14

Posted on Mar 15, 2019 4:22 AM

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John Lockwood

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Mar 15, 2019 4:26 AM in response to Yahont

If you go to the Apple Menu and select 'About This Mac' and then select 'System Report' and then in System Report select 'Graphics/Displays' and then select the appropriate video card/display it will list a line labelled 'Resolution' this should be the physical native resolution of the display.

A second line 'UI Looks like' is the scaled resolution.

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Yahont Author

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Mar 15, 2019 4:34 AM in response to John Lockwood

I checked. There is not any "resolution" for the internal Intel card. And for the Radeon Pro card there is mentioned 2880x1800 resolution, but without "UI Looks like". Well. But why other programs see 3360x2100 and successfully run on it? And why the official preferred resolution is 1680x1050, which is natural half scale for 3360x2100 too, not for 2880x1800?

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Mar 15, 2019 9:51 AM in response to Yahont

Apple says it is 2880x1800.

I don’t see how you’d see any numbers in System Preferences->Displays. In all recent MBP that I ‘ve seen it only shows some buttons like “Bigger text” or “more space”...

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Yahont Author

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Apr 8, 2019 1:40 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Point by mouse on the icons and you will see under picture of a monitor.

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How to know a natural resolution of Retina display?

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