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Macbook Pro 2011 GPU issue - SOLVED by dosdude1 Another lawsuit alleged that a switch to a lead-free solder, which consisted of tin and silver, resulted in a tendency to crack under rapid thermal changes, along with a phenomenon in which microscopic " whiskers" began to form around the solder, eventually short-circuiting the GPU.
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A lawsuit alleging a logic board defect was dismissed.
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The issues became known as " Radeongate" and led to class-action lawsuits being filed against Apple after software updates had allegedly throttled the GPUs to limit their failure rate. Apple removed AMD GPUs from all of the respective 2012 models in the following year, and did not offer AMD GPUs in its iMac models again until 2014 and MacBook Pro models until 2015. This issue appeared to be related to heat generated by the discrete GPU and was especially exacerbated by the compact form factor and limited ventilation of the 2011 MacBook Pros.
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Radeon HD 6490M - Early 2011 MacBook Pro.