sterpe

Q: Performance of 2 Thunderbolts with early 2011 mbp (AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256MB)

Does anyone have any experience with daisy chaining two Thunderbolt displays to a 15-in Early 2011 MBP (8,2) that carries the AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256 MB gfx card?

 

Curious whether this machine, though technically listed as Thunderbolt-capable would struggle to drive 2 linked displays with that gfx card.  It's the $2K question...

 

FWIW, the machine also has 2GHZ Intel Core I7 Quad core, 16 GB 1333 MHZ DDR3 Ram,  and a 6G SSD from OWC.  Running OS X 10.11.3.

 

Thanks.

 

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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256 MB

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 8:48 PM