This is my Macbook:
And when I open google maps, 3d view, then my fan starts working very loud. And this is how it looks:
Is everything ok with this? Is my graphic card working fine?
MacBook – My Graphic Card on Macbook Pro 2020 doesnt work correctly
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Unfortunately, there is not a cheap good or ideal way to do this.
The graphics card is a key integrated part of the logic board on the MacBook Pro, there really is no separation of it from it to do an upgrade, short of replacing the entire motherboard, and even then you would be limited to what was available at the time for that generation of MacBook Pro.
See that orange highlighted square, thats the NVidia GeForce pictured below:
Honestly, the Matrox route is probably the most affordable workable solution to this problem.
This MacBook Pro also lacks an ExpressCard/34 slot or Thunderbolt so you really can't go the route of an external graphics card. And even if you could you would be talking over $500 USD just to get the external PCI express chassis, for example Magma's ExpressBox 1 starts at $829 for just one external PCI Express slot, you would still need to spend another ~ $200 to buy a mac compatible graphics card.
Your last option is to maybe reevaluate if this MacBook Pro is the right machine for your needs. Would a newer model MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt solve this problem, maybe maybe not. If you don't have two Thunderbolt Displays, you are kind of still out of luck hooking up dual displays to even a Thunderbolt MacBook Pro, with out the need for expensive external adapters.
Would an iMac, Mac Mini, or Mac Pro better suit your computing needs, complimented with a basic MacBook Air or iPad of some kind for your mobility needs.
I'm afraid you're probably right about the logic board being damaged. Unfortunately, that repair is not inexpensive. For a flat rate depot repair, you're looking at around $1240. For an in store (at an Apple Retail Store), you're looking at a little under $1000.
It looks like you've tried all the troubleshooting steps you can do when it shuts off after a minute.
As the folks in the Apple Store will tell you, you're going to be better off looking at a new machine.
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Best Answer
Having the fan ramp up while performing complex graphical work is not unexpected.
As for the picture anomaly: does this occur 'everywhere' in Google Maps, or just one location?
If there's no similar problem when performing any other graphically intensive task, then I would not point at the graphics hardware as the source of the problem.