Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Raptor Lake) vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Raptor Lake) and NVIDIA GeForce MX550 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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).

Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Raptor Lake)

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Raptor Lake)

Around 48% higher texture fill rate: 62.40 GTexel/s vs 42.24 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 12 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 25 Watt

Texture fill rate	62.40 GTexel/s vs 42.24 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 25 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
3.6x more core clock speed: 1065 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1300 MHz
Around 33% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 768

Launch date	2022 vs 4 Jan 2023
Core clock speed	1065 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz vs 1300 MHz
Pipelines	1024 vs 768

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Raptor Lake)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Name	Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Raptor Lake)	NVIDIA GeForce MX550
PassMark - G2D Mark		396
PassMark - G3D Mark		4527
Geekbench - OpenCL		34265
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		102.448
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1017.021
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.996
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		87.46
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		587.99

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Raptor Lake)	NVIDIA GeForce MX550
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.2	Turing
Code name	Raptor Lake GT1	TU117
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	2022
Place in performance rating	not rated	452
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz	1320 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	1065 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	12 nm
Pipelines	768	1024
Pixel fill rate	31.20 GPixel/s	21.12 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	62.40 GTexel/s	42.24 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	25 Watt
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		42.24 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		2.703 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		2.703 TFLOPS
Transistor count		4700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	IGP
Interface	Ring Bus	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.6	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	96.00 GB/s
Memory bus width	System Shared	64 bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR6