AMD Radeon Pro 455

The AMD Radeon Pro 455 is mobile graphics card for laptops that can be found in the high-end model of the Apple MacBook Pro Retina 15 Late 2016. It is based on the small Polaris 11 chip which is manufactured in 14 nm FinFET at Globalfoundries. Compared to the Radeon RX 460 (see for benchmarks), the Pro 455 features only 768 instead of 896 shaders and definately lower clock speeds. The peak performance is rated at 1.3 TFLOPS and therefore 30% faster than the Pro 450, but clearly slower than the 1.86 TFLOPS of the Pro 460 and 2.2 TFLOPS of the RX460. The performance of the card could be similar to the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M as the RX 460 is similar to the GTX 965M. A major drawback is the small VRAM size of only 2 GB GDDR5. The optional Radeon Pro 460 offers 4 GB of VRAM, 1024 shaders and 1.86 TFLOPS and should be similar to the RX 460.

Apple and AMD don't provide driver updates for Windows using Bootcamp. The only option is to use modified drivers from BootcampDrivers.com.

The features of the Radeon Pro 455 are identical to the faster RX 460 and all other Polaris chips. See more details on the Polaris architecture here. According to AMD, the Pro 455 support DisplayPort 1.2 (altough 1.4 is supported by Polaris) and HDMI 2.0 (via USB-C adapter).

The power envelope of the faster Radeon Pro 460 is rated at 35 Watt according to the AMD blog post. Due to the slower specs, the Radeon Pro 455 should use slightly less.

Manufacturer

AMD

Radeon RX 400M Series

Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) (compare)	2304	256 Bit
Radeon RX 490M (compare)
Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) (compare)	896 @ 1180 (Boost) MHz	128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon Pro 460 (compare)	1024 @ 900 MHz	128 Bit @ 5000 MHz
Radeon Pro 455	768 @ 855 MHz	128 Bit @ 5000 MHz
Radeon Pro 450 (compare)	640 @ 800 MHz	128 Bit @ 5080 MHz

Codename

Polaris 11

Architecture

Polaris

Pipelines

768 - unified

Core Speed

855 MHz

Memory Speed

5000 MHz

Memory Bus Width

128 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Max. Amount of Memory

2048 MB

Shared Memory

DirectX

DirectX 12

Transistor Count

3000 Million

technology

14 nm

Features

DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready, HDMI 2.0, AMD FreeSync

Notebook Size

large

Date of Announcement

27.10.2016

Link to Manufacturer Page

http://creators.radeon.com/radeon-pro/

Benchmarks

3DMark - Time Spy Score 2560x1440

1254 Points (12%)

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3DMark - Time Spy Graphics 2560x1440

1118 Points (9%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen

229045 Points (49%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

15766 Points (32%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

23434 Points (13%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

3463 Points (13%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

3759 Points (9%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

5774 points (19%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

5388 points (11%)

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 -7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 -7%

NVIDIA Quadro M2000M -5%

AMD Radeon Pro 555 -4%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M -2%

AMD Radeon Pro 560 -2%

NVIDIA Quadro M1200 -1%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M SLI -1%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 0%

AMD Radeon Pro 455

AMD FirePro M6100 1%

AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 2%

AMD Radeon R9 M385X 2%

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire 3%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M SLI 5%

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 9%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI 11%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 13%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 13%

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Desktop) 692%

100%

3DMark Vantage
P Result 1280x1024 +

P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +

3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

Unigine Valley 1.0 - Extreme HD DirectX 1920x1080

16.4 fps (11%)

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SPECviewperf 12
Solidworks (sw-03) 1900x1060 +

Siemens NX (snx-02) 1900x1060 +

Showcase (showcase-01) 1900x1060 +

Medical (medical-01) 1900x1060 +

Maya (maya-04) 1900x1060 +

Energy (energy-01) 1900x1060 +

Creo (creo-01) 1900x1060 +

Catia (catia-04) 1900x1060 +

3ds Max (3dsmax-05) 1900x1060 +

Cinebench R10 Shading 32Bit +

Cinebench R15
OpenGL 64Bit +

Ref. Match 64Bit +

GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 1920x1080 +

T-Rex HD Onscreen C24Z16 +

GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Offscreen OGL off screen

92.2 fps (17%)

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GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Onscreen OGL on screen

27.9 fps (8%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only

483 Samples/s (9%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only

918 Samples/s (9%)

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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600

3049 Points (14%)

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Power Consumption - FurMark 1.19 GPU Stress Test - Power Consumption (external Monitor) 1280x720 *

56.1 Watt (15%)

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Power Consumption - The Witcher 3 Power Consumption (external Monitor) ultra 1920x1080 *

48.3 Watt (11%)

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- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card

- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.