AMD Radeon Pro 450, 455, 460 chipsets debuting in the MacBook Pro detailed, benchmarked
AMD has offered up some technical information on the three discrete chipsets debuting in the new MacBook Pro line, showing nearly double the performance on the Radeon Pro 460 over the Radeon Pro 450.
The discrete GPU in the MacBook Pro are based on AMD's 14nm FinFET process, and are designed for power efficiency, more than peak performance. All three units provide 80 GB per second memory bandwidth, and are based on the company's Polaris architecture.
The Radeon Pro 450 offers peak performance up to 1 teraflop, with 10 compute units and 640 stream processors. The Pro 455 performs up to 1.3 teraflops, and has 12 compute units and 768 stream processors.
At the high end, the Radeon Pro 460 available as an upgrade for the new computer provides 1.86 teraflops, and has 16 compute units and 1024 stream processors.
In comparison, the Iris Graphics 540 found on the 13-inch late 2016 MacBook Pro has a peak performance of 806 gigaflops, with the 550 in the higher end configuration coming in at 845 gigaflops.
The 2013 Mac Pro desktop GPU D300 FirePro is capable of 2 teraflops per GPU, and the computer holds two. The D500 FirePro can provide 2.2 teraflops per GPU.
The discrete GPU in the MacBook Pro are based on AMD's 14nm FinFET process, and are designed for power efficiency, more than peak performance. All three units provide 80 GB per second memory bandwidth, and are based on the company's Polaris architecture.
The Radeon Pro 450 offers peak performance up to 1 teraflop, with 10 compute units and 640 stream processors. The Pro 455 performs up to 1.3 teraflops, and has 12 compute units and 768 stream processors.
At the high end, the Radeon Pro 460 available as an upgrade for the new computer provides 1.86 teraflops, and has 16 compute units and 1024 stream processors.
In comparison, the Iris Graphics 540 found on the 13-inch late 2016 MacBook Pro has a peak performance of 806 gigaflops, with the 550 in the higher end configuration coming in at 845 gigaflops.
The 2013 Mac Pro desktop GPU D300 FirePro is capable of 2 teraflops per GPU, and the computer holds two. The D500 FirePro can provide 2.2 teraflops per GPU.
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Pushes the MBP near the MacPro performance in terms of GPU.
As much as I'd love a big shooter workstation, the MBP will probably meet my needs 99% of the time.
Edit: According to 'GPUBOSS' it's about 2.9 TFLOPS.
The MacPro can also be configured with the D700 which pushes up to 3.5 teraflops in single precision with 1/4 of it in double precision.
I still have another 1.5 years on my current MBP lease. My MBP was the top spec until this morning...I'm not in any hurry.
The main problem I have is that it seems like their graphics hardware seems a generation behind on launch day and we waited an extra year for a real refresh on this hardware. It really is keeping me from pulling the trigger. My 2013 air will have to keep me going for a while longer for minor document editing and things I can't do readily on the phone. I have to use a desktop system for serious work. The type of programming I do really would benefit from 32 g ram and a decent graphics card. 16 and barely better than integrated graphics just can't be justified for $3k. I can get the hardware I need in laptop form from pcs but I hate the software so very much.