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I have an Apple laptop from the 3 series, equipped with 8GB of RAM, an Intel Core i5 3210m processor, and dual graphics—specifically switchable Intel HD Graphics 4000 and Radeon HD 7730M. The issue I'm running into is that both GPUs seem to perform almost identically during gaming; in some titles, the AMD one performs better, while in others it doesn't, even though it really should be delivering nearly double the FPS compared to the Intel one. What makes things even stranger is that in the PassMark software, the difference is actually there, with the AMD card showing much higher performance (in fact, all the components in this laptop seem to outperform average specs), and what’s even more confusing is that just a few months ago, everything was working fine and I was getting much better FPS in every game. I'm running Windows 10 (ver. 1803), all my drivers are completely up to date, and I even tested this on Windows 7 and saw the exact same thing. The processor and the GPU don't seem to be overheating at all during games (the CPU stays around 75 C and the GPU stays at 65 C). The AMD card runs at its set clock speeds (575 and 900 MHz), but the usage remains quite low, maybe around 25-35% in most games, so I wonder if that might be causing the low FPS. I should probably mention again that this problem only started appearing a couple of months back; before that, everything worked perfectly fine.