How to upgrade my Macbook Pro's Graphic Card?

I have a Early 2012 13 inch Macbook Pro and it's ***** when I play games.
Here are the specs:
- 2.8 GHz dual-core Intel Core i7
- 6 GB RAM
- Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
- OSX Mavericks 10.9.2
- 750 GB HDD 1333 MHz DDR3
It lags a lot when I play such an old games such as GTA Vice City (the FPS drops a lot when my mac getting hot) or GTA San Andreas (quite stable). Both of them aren't modded and still original. Is there any way to upgrade my Macbook Pro's graphic card?

You cannot upgrade the Graphics card on a laptop because everything is built into the logic board. Unfortunately your perticular graphics chip is actually built into the CPU, and is a very low performing chip which would definately make gaming hard.
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PCI Revision ID:          0x0003
PCI Vendor ID:          0x8086
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Vendor ID:          0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.)
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Manufacturer:          Apple Inc.
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PCI Vendor ID:          0x8086
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PCI Device ID:          0x2835
PCI Revision ID:          0x0003
PCI Vendor ID:          0x8086
Bus Number:          0x3a
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Host Controller Location:          Built In USB
Host Controller Driver:          AppleUSBUHCI
PCI Device ID:          0x2832
PCI Revision ID:          0x0003
PCI Vendor ID:          0x8086
Bus Number:          0x5d
Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad:
Product ID:          0x0230
Vendor ID:          0x05ac (Apple Inc.)
Version:          0.70
Speed:          Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Apple, Inc.
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Product ID:          0x8242
Vendor ID:          0x05ac (Apple Inc.)
Version:          0.16
Speed:          Up to 1.5 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Apple Computer, Inc.
Location ID:          0x5d100000
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Host Controller Location:          Built In USB
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PCI Device ID:          0x2836
PCI Revision ID:          0x0003
PCI Vendor ID:          0x8086
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Vendor ID:          0x05ac (Apple Inc.)
Version:          1.60
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