AMD Radeon Pro 5500M Geekbench Metal score — 8% faster than the Radeon Pro Vega 20 and 35% faster than the Radeon Pro 560X

[Redaktion]

The first Geekbench Metal listing of the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M is now available, and it looks like it offers a good upgrade over the Radeon Pro 560X found in the mid-2018 MacBook Pro 15. However, those who already have the end-2018 MacBook Pro 15 with a Radeon Pro Vega 20 might have less of an incentive to upgrade from a GPU standpoint.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-Pro-5500M-Geekbench-Metal-score-8-faster-than-the-Radeon-Pro-Vega-20-and-35-faster-than-the-Radeon-Pro-560X.442747.0.html

[joegalamb]

Dear Redaktion, you have failed at math.
This new card is actually 9% and 55% faster respectively. Or if you want to stick with the numbers, the title should look like:
"Radeon Pro Vega 20 is 8% slower and the Radeon Pro 560X is 35% slower than the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M Geekbench Metal score"

[Vaidyanathan]

Dear Redaktion, you have failed at math.
This new card is actually 9% and 55% faster respectively. Or if you want to stick with the numbers, the title should look like:
"Radeon Pro Vega 20 is 8% slower and the Radeon Pro 560X is 35% slower than the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M Geekbench Metal score"

You're right. Corrected :)

[Dennis Hodge]

The Apple store claims their 5500M is 24 compute units (in the Buy screen help text). Hmm.

[Vaidyanathan]

Apple uses a Pro version with fully enabled Navi 14 silicon.

[Spunjji]

I'll be interested to see how this shakes out in practice. An artifical benchmark running on the Meal API should be close to the best-case performance scenario for Vega and Polaris, while one of RDNA's big improvements was getting more performance out of the architecture *in practice*. This might be slightly understating the performance improvement in real-world applications.