The frame rates were steady, even after prolong periods. We did not notice any throttling in “ The Witcher 3” (Bootcamp) or the Unigine Valley benchmark (macOS). You can also utilize the full GPU performance on battery power. The suitable rival based on the Pascal architecture is the brand-new GeForce MX150 (laptop version of the GT 1030). The current GeForce GTX 1050 on the other hand, is much faster. It is not surprising that the Radeon Pro 555 is on par with the old Radeon Pro 455 as well as the old Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M in the synthetic benchmarks. More information about the Radeon Pro 555 is available in our Tech section more information about the Polaris architecture is available in our dedicated article.

However, the technical specifications have not changed: 768 shaders clocked at up to 855 MHz, supported by 2 GB of GDDR5-VRAM. The Radeon Pro 555 uses the smaller Polaris 21 chip, which is manufactured in an improved process (14 nm FinFET LPP). This means that the entry-level SKU has had a speed bump since there is no successor to the slower Radeon Pro 450.

The graphics card of the current MacBook Pro carries the designation AMD Radeon Pro 555 and is the direct successor to the old Radeon Pro 455.

Unlike the smaller 13-inch system, the manufacturer still sells the old MacBook Pro Retina 15 with the 2015 design. The following table shows Apple's current line-up for the 15-inch MacBook Pro. Apple once again uses up to 16 GB of LPDDR3-RAM (2133 MHz), but the maximum SSD storage has been doubled to 2 TB. There is no successor to the Radeon Pro 450, but there is an option for the more powerful Radeon Pro 560. The entry-level spec is equipped with the AMD Radeon Pro 555, which is the direct (and basically similarly powerful) successor to the old Radeon Pro 455. Apple now reacts with an unusually early update after just 8 months – we originally expected an update this autumn.īesides the new processors, Apple now also ships slightly more powerful GPUs by default. The Skylake processors were still up to date when the previous model launched last autumn, but the competition started shipping models with new and faster Kaby Lake chips soon after that. For the original German review, see here.Īpple announced an update for the MacBook Pro 15 at this year's WWDC in June.

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