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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.

Radeon RX 400M Series

Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) compare 2304 256 Bit
Radeon RX 490M compare
Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) compare 896 @ 1.18 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon Pro 460 compare 1024 @ 0.9 GHz128 Bit @ 5000 MHz
Radeon Pro 455 768 @ 0.86 GHz128 Bit @ 5000 MHz
Radeon Pro 450 compare 640 @ 0.8 GHz128 Bit @ 5080 MHz
CodenamePolaris 11
ArchitecturePolaris
Pipelines768 - unified
Core Speed855 MHz
Memory Speed5000 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory2048 MB
Shared Memoryno
APIDirectX 12, OpenGL Vulkan
Power Consumption<35 Watt
Transistor Count3 Billion
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 Pagecreators.radeon.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Score
1254 Points (4%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Graphics
1118 Points (3%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics
229045 Points (23%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score
15766 Points (15%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics
23434 Points (6%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score
3463 Points (6%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics
3759 Points (4%)
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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
5774 Points (7%)
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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
5388 Points (5%)
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3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. total
16522 Points (5%)
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3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
14879 Points (8%)
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3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +
3DMark 06
25873 Points (34%)
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Unigine Valley 1.0 - Unigine Valley 1.0 DX
16.4 fps (5%)
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SPECviewperf 12
specvp12 sw-03 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03
47.4 fps (12%)
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specvp12 snx-02 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02
13.9 fps (2%)
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specvp12 showcase-01 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01
20.3 fps (4%)
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specvp12 mediacal-01 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 mediacal-01
10.8 fps (3%)
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specvp12 maya-04 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04
30.2 fps (8%)
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specvp12 energy-01 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01
0.2 fps (0%)
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specvp12 creo-01 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01
32.8 fps (13%)
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specvp12 catia-04 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04
31.2 fps (5%)
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specvp12 3dsmax-05 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 3dsmax-05
26.4 fps (5%)
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Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) +
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit)
12740 points (9%)
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Cinebench R15
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit +
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit
100 fps (6%)
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Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit +
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit
98 % (98%)
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GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen
92.2 fps (4%)
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GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 +
GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16
229 fps (2%)
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Room GPU
483 Samples/s (2%)
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Sala GPU
918 Samples/s (2%)
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ComputeMark v2.1 - ComputeMark v2.1 Result
3049 points (3%)
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Power Consumption - Furmark Stress Test Power Consumption - external Monitor *
56.1 Watt (8%)
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Power Consumption - The Witcher 3 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
48.3 Watt (7%)
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Power Consumption - Witcher 3 ultra Power Efficiency - external Monitor
0.3 fps per Watt (24%)
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- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
red legend - 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 detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

Resident Evil 7

Resident Evil 7

2017
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

Watch Dogs 2

2016
low 1280x720
54.4  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
20.7  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Dishonored 2

Dishonored 2

2016
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

Call of Duty Infinite Warfare

2016
high 1920x1080
40.2  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
34.4  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
Titanfall 2

Titanfall 2

2016
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

Farming Simulator 17

2016
high 1920x1080
71.7  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
25.8  fps    + Compare
4K 3840x2160
22.8  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
Battlefield 1

Battlefield 1

2016
low 1280x720
109  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
28.9  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
25.3  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Civilization VI

Civilization VI

2016
low 1024x768
69  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
28.8  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
21.6  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Mafia 3

Mafia 3

2016
low 1280x720
32.8  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
15.1  fps    + Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
Deus Ex Mankind Divided

Deus Ex Mankind Divided

2016
low 1280x720
59.5  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
21.5  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
8.9  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Overwatch

Overwatch

2016
low 1280x720
178  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
65.8  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
30.1  fps    + Compare
4K 3840x2160
18.7  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
Doom

Doom

2016
low 1280x720
53.1  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
19.8  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Ashes of the Singularity

Ashes of the Singularity

2016
low 1280x768
33.8  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
21.3  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
19.3  fps    + Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.