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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.

ManufacturerAMD
Radeon RX 400M Series
Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) 2304 256 Bit
Radeon RX 490M
Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) 896 @ 1180 (Boost) MHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon Pro 460 1024 @ 900 MHz128 Bit @ 5000 MHz
Radeon Pro 455 768 @ 855 MHz128 Bit @ 5000 MHz
Radeon Pro 450 640 @ 800 MHz128 Bit @ 5080 MHz
CodenamePolaris 11
ArchitecturePolaris
Pipelines768 - unified
Core Speed *855 MHz
Memory Speed *5000 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory2048 MB
Shared Memoryno
DirectXDirectX 12
Power Consumption<35 Watt
Transistors3000 Million
technology14 nm
FeaturesDisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready, HDMI 2.0, AMD FreeSync
Notebook Sizelarge
Date of Announcement27.10.2016
Link to Manufacturer Pagehttp://creators.radeon.com/radeon-pro/
* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

Benchmarks

Power Consumption - FurMark 1.18 GPU Stress Test Power Consumption (external Monitor) ultra
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min: 56.1     avg: 56.1 (15%)     median: 56.1 (15%)     max: 56.1 Watt
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Power Consumption - The Witcher 3 Power Consumption (external Monitor) ultra 1920x1080
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min: 48.3     avg: 48.3 (13%)     median: 48.3 (13%)     max: 48.3 Watt
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Unigine Valley 1.0 - Extreme HD DirectX 1920x1080
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min: 16.4     avg: 16.4 (11%)     median: 16.4 (11%)     max: 16.4 fps
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GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Offscreen OGL off screen
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min: 92.2     avg: 92.2 (17%)     median: 92.2 (17%)     max: 92.2 fps
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GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Onscreen OGL on screen
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min: 27.9     avg: 27.9 (8%)     median: 27.9 (8%)     max: 27.9 fps
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Cinebench R15
Ref. Match 64Bit +
OpenGL 64Bit +
GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 1920x1080 +
T-Rex HD Onscreen C24Z16 +
3DMark - Time Spy Graphics 2560x1440
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min: 1118     avg: 1118 (9%)     median: 1118 (9%)     max: 1118 Points
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3DMark - Time Spy Score 2560x1440
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min: 1254     avg: 1254 (12%)     median: 1254 (12%)     max: 1254 Points
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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080
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min: 3759     avg: 3759 (9%)     median: 3759 (9%)     max: 3759 Points
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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080
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min: 3463     avg: 3463 (15%)     median: 3463 (15%)     max: 3463 Points
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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720
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min: 23434     avg: 23434 (14%)     median: 23434 (14%)     max: 23434 Points
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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720
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min: 15766     avg: 15766 (32%)     median: 15766 (32%)     max: 15766 Points
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3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen
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min: 229045     avg: 229045 (50%)     median: 229045 (50%)     max: 229045 Points
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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600
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min: 3049     avg: 3049 (14%)     median: 3049 (14%)     max: 3049 Points
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only
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min: 483     avg: 483 (9%)     median: 483 (9%)     max: 483 Samples/s
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only
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min: 918     avg: 918 (9%)     median: 918 (9%)     max: 918 Samples/s
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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720
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min: 5388     avg: 5388 (11%)     median: 5388 (11%)     max: 5388 points
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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720
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min: 5774     avg: 5774 (20%)     median: 5774 (20%)     max: 5774 points
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3DMark Vantage
P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +
P Result 1280x1024 +
3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +
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 +
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- Average benchmark values for this graphics card

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.

Resident Evil 7
low 1280x720
146  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
59.4  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
34.6  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
19.7  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
Watch Dogs 2
low 1280x720
54.4  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
20.7  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Dishonored 2
low 1280x720
44.1  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
20.6  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Call of Duty Infinite Warfare
high 1920x1080
40.2  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
34.4  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
Titanfall 2
high 1920x1080
33.1  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
28.8  fps    + Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
Farming Simulator 17
high 1920x1080
71.7  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
25.8  fps    + Compare
3840x2160
22.8  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
Battlefield 1
low 1280x720
109  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
28.9  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
25.3  fps    + Compare