AMD Radeon Pro 555X vs AMD Radeon RX 560 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 555X and AMD Radeon RX 560 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Pro 555X

AMD Radeon RX 560 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 555X

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 60-80 Watt

Launch date	16 July 2018 vs 18 April 2017
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 60-80 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560 (Laptop)

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1090-1175 MHz vs 907 MHz
Around 33% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 768
Around 37% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 5100 MHz
Around 54% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 19252 vs 12519

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1090-1175 MHz vs 907 MHz
Pipelines	1024 vs 768
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 5100 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	19252 vs 12519

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 555X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 560 (Laptop)

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

12519

19252

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 555X	AMD Radeon RX 560 (Laptop)
Geekbench - OpenCL	12519	19252
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	35.283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	668.308
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	49.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	170.952
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4093
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4093
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 555X	AMD Radeon RX 560 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0
Code name	Polaris 21	Baffin
Launch date	16 July 2018	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	981	1135
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop, Laptop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$99.99
Price now		$104.99
Value for money (0-100)		50.84
Technical info
Core clock speed	907 MHz	1090-1175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	768	1024
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	60-80 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	3,000 million
Boost clock speed		1200-1275 MHz
Compute units		14/16
Floating-point performance		2.6 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate		20.40 GP/s
Render output units		16
Stream Processors		896/1024
Texture fill rate		81.60 GTexel/s
Texture Units		64
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bridgeless CrossFire
Laptop size		large
Recommended system power (PSU)		450 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
OpenCL		2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	5100 MHz	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		112 GB/s
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)