The MacBook Pro lineup has just been refreshed with some hardware upgrades, the most important one is the new AMD Radeon Pro 500 Series. Specifically, we have 2 different dedicated GPUs on the new MacBook, which are Radeon Pro 555 and 560. We had a comparison between the Radeon Pro 555 / 560 and the older 450 / 455 / 460, you should check out that post to see if you really need to make the switch.
The 2 MacBook configurations with the 2 GPUs have a price difference of about $200. Is this really worth the extra cost? Let’s check out all the differences between Radeon Pro 555 and 560.
Specifications
| Radeon Pro 555 | Radeon Pro 560 | |
| Clock speed | 850 MHz | 925 MHz |
| Shading Units | 768 | 1,024 |
| Texture mapping units | 48 | 64 |
| Render output processors | 16 | 16 |
| Compute units | 12 | 16 |
| Pixel rate | 13.6 GPixel/s | 14.8 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 40.8 GTexel/s | 59.2 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 1,305.6 GFLOPS | 1,894.4 GFLOPS |
| Memory clock speed | 1,275 MHz | 1,275 MHz |
| Effective memory clock speed | 5,100 MHz | 5,100 MHz |
| Memory bus | 128 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory | 2,048 MB | 4,096 MB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory bandwidth | 81.6 GB/s | 81.6 GB/s |
| TDP (Thermal design power) | 100W | 75W |
Benchmarks
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