AMD Radeon Pro 560X

The AMD Radeon Pro 560X is a mobile graphics card based on the small Polaris 21 chip from AMD. It is an option for the 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro 2018 and is very similar to the Radeon Pro 460. Compared to the Radeon Pro 560 from the 2017 MBP15, the 560X is slightly higher clocked. The Radeon Pro 555X from the entry level model offers less cores.

The mobile Radeon Pro 560X should support all features of the desktop RX 460/560 like DisplayPort 1.2 (Polaris actually supports up to 1.4), HDMI 2.0 (via USB-C adapter), new H.265 video de- and encoder as well as architectural improvements. More information about the Polaris architecture is available in our dedicated review.

The Polaris 21 chip is manufactured in a slightly improved 14nm FinFET process according to AMD. The power consumption of the Radeon Pro 460 is 35 Watts according to AMD, so this should also be the case for the Pro 560X.

Manufacturer	AMD
Codename	Polaris 21
Architecture	Polaris
Pipelines	1024 - unified
Core Speed	907 MHz
Memory Speed	5080 MHz
Memory Bus Width	128 Bit
Memory Type	GDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory	4096 MB
Shared Memory	no
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	05.06.2017

Benchmarks

3DMark - Time Spy Score 2560x1440

1775 Points (14%)

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3DMark - Time Spy Graphics 2560x1440

1614 Points (11%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen

255217 Points (48%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

18251 Points (31%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

32449 Points (18%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

4961 Points (19%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

5699 Points (14%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

7910 points (25%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

7590 points (15%)

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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AMD Radeon Pro 460 -11%

AMD Radeon R9 M290X -10%

AMD Radeon R9 M390 -10%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q -9%

NVIDIA Quadro K5100M -9%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX SLI -7%

AMD Radeon HD 8970M -5%

NVIDIA Quadro M2200 -3%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M -1%

AMD Radeon Pro 560X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Laptop) 1%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 1%

AMD Radeon HD 7970 2%

AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) 3%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M SLI 5%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 5%

NVIDIA Quadro P2000 Max-Q 7%

NVIDIA Quadro P2000 8%

NVIDIA Quadro M3000M 9%

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NVIDIA Titan RTX 473%

100%

Cinebench R15
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Clock Speed - GPU Clock Witcher 3 ultra

1004 MHz (24%)

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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.