AMD Radeon Pro 455 vs AMD Radeon RX 490M vs AMD Radeon Pro 460
AMD Radeon Pro 455
► remove from comparisonThe 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.
AMD Radeon RX 490M
► remove from comparisonThe AMD Radeon RX 490M (formerly known as R9 M490) is a mobile high end graphics cards. It should be based on the new Polaris architecture and manufactured in 14nm FinFET. Up to now it only surfaced in a driver (according to Videocardz.com) and should be announced in mid 2016. The efficiency of Polaris should be greatly improved and therefore the M490 should at least be able to perform like a GeForce GTX 980M.
AMD Radeon Pro 460
► remove from comparisonThe 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).
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Codename | Polaris 11 | Polaris | Polaris 11 / Baffin XT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architecture | Polaris | Polaris | Polaris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pipelines | 768 - unified | 1024 - unified | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Core Speed | 855 MHz | 900 MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Speed | 5000 MHz | 5000 MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit | 128 Bit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 | GDDR5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Max. Amount of Memory | 2048 MB | 4 GB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shared Memory | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
API | DirectX 12, OpenGL Vulkan | DirectX 12 | DirectX 12, OpenGL Vulkan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power Consumption | <35 Watt | 35 Watt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transistors | 3 Billion | 3 Billion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
technology | 14 nm | 14 nm | 14 nm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features | DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready, HDMI 2.0, AMD FreeSync | DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready, HDMI 2.0, AMD FreeSync | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notebook Size | large | large | large | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 27.10.2016 | 01.08.2016 | 08.08.2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Link to Manufacturer Page | creators.radeon.com | creators.radeon.com |