Video Hardware Info

Last Revision:
Version 1.0, 2004-02-12
Sample demonstrates how to query the video hardware for useful information.
Build Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3
Runtime Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later

Video Hardware Info is a simple demonstration of how to query the video hardware for useful information from multiple different APIs. This simple Cocoa application pulls data such as total physical VRAM using Core Graphics APIs, retrieves hardware information such as device and model numbers from IOKit and 3D rendering infromation from OpenGL. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or later Keywords: Video Hardware OpenGL Quartz IOKit CoreGraphics VRAM