AMD Radeon Pro 555 vs 560 - Specification Comparison

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