
Apple MacBook Pro 15 (Late 2016 2.9 GHz, 460) Notebook Review
Intel Core i7-6920HQ | AMD Radeon Pro 460 | 15.40" | 1.8 kg
The AMD Radeon Pro 460 is mobile graphics card for laptops that can be ordered as an option for the Apple MacBook Pro 15 Late 2016. It is based on the small Polaris 11 chip which is manufactured in 14 nm FinFET at Globalfoundries. Compared to the similar Radeon RX 460 (see for benchmarks), the Pro 460 offers all 1024 shaders of the Polaris 11 chip but most likely at a reduced clock speed. AMD states a peak performance of 1.86 TFLOPS, compared to the 2.2 of the RX 460 (desktop). Apple presented the Pro 460 as 130 % faster than the previous Radeon R9 M370X in the 2015 MacBook Pro 15 regarding graphics performance.
The performance should be therefore a bit slower than the Radeon RX 460, which is similar to the GTX 965M. It is the only card in the MacBook Pro 15 line-up that features more than 2 GB VRAM (Radeon Pro 450 and 455). Furthermore, 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 460 are identical to the faster RX 460 and all other Polaris chips. See more details on the Polaris architecture here. Therefore, the Pro 460 should support DisplayPort 1.2 (although Polaris supports up to 1.4 ready) and HDMI 2.0 (via USB-C adapter) as well as H.265 video de- and encoding (support in macOS questionable).
The power consumption of the Pro 460 is rated at a TDP of 35 Watt (according to the AMD blog post).
Radeon RX 400M Series
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Codename | Polaris 11 / Baffin XT | ||||||||||||||||||
Architecture | Polaris | ||||||||||||||||||
Pipelines | 1024 - unified | ||||||||||||||||||
Core Speed | 900 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||
Memory Speed | 5000 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||
Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit | ||||||||||||||||||
Memory Type | GDDR5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Max. Amount of Memory | 4 GB | ||||||||||||||||||
Shared Memory | no | ||||||||||||||||||
API | DirectX 12, OpenGL Vulkan | ||||||||||||||||||
Power Consumption | 35 Watt | ||||||||||||||||||
Transistor Count | 3 Billion | ||||||||||||||||||
technology | 14 nm | ||||||||||||||||||
Features | DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready, HDMI 2.0, AMD FreeSync | ||||||||||||||||||
Notebook Size | large | ||||||||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 08.08.2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
Link to Manufacturer Page | creators.radeon.com |
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.
low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
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Resident Evil 7 | 157.8 | 47.1 | 21.7 | |||
Dishonored 2 | 61.4 | 26 | 22.9 | |||
Call of Duty Infinite Warfare | 85.5 | 46.3 | 40.6 | |||
Titanfall 2 | 115.6 | 35.3 | 32 | |||
Farming Simulator 17 | 235.5 | 92.3 | 34.7 | |||
Battlefield 1 | 132.6 | 40.9 | 35.4 | |||
FIFA 17 | 316.6 | 151.9 | 146.4 | |||
Deus Ex Mankind Divided | 66.6 | 25 | 12.2 | |||
Overwatch | 201.5 | 106.7 | 48.8 | |||
Doom | 65 | 30.3 | 29.7 | |||
The Division | 102.8 | 28.9 | 22.3 | |||
Far Cry Primal | 74 | 35 | 32 | 21 | ||
XCOM 2 | 88.7 | 31.9 | 21.7 | 9.9 | ||
Rise of the Tomb Raider | 76 | 25.8 | 20.8 | |||
Rainbow Six Siege | 150.3 | 55.2 | 45 | |||
Anno 2205 | 120.9 | 25.9 | 8.8 | |||
The Witcher 3 | 83.3 | 28.9 | 17.4 | |||
Sims 4 | 164.9 | 69.6 | 63 | |||
< 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 10 8 | 2 | 7 7 3 1 | 10 6 1 1 | | |
For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List
Apple MacBook Pro 15 2016 (2.9 GHz, 460): Intel Core i7-6920HQ, 15.40", 1.8 kg
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