NVIDIA GeForce MX350 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX350 and AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce MX350

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX350

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1354 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1468 MHz vs 1340 MHz
9.3x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 185 Watt

Launch date	10 Feb 2020 vs 18 April 2017
Core clock speed	1354 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Boost clock speed	1468 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 185 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

4.1x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 46.98 GTexel/s
3.6x more pipelines: 2304 vs 640
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
4.6x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1752 MHz (7008 MHz effective)
2.8x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3510 vs 1247

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s vs 46.98 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2304 vs 640
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1752 MHz (7008 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3510 vs 1247

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX350
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1247

3510

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX350	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark	2811
PassMark - G2D Mark	238
Geekbench - OpenCL	13490
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4655
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4655
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1247	3510

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX350	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 4.0
Code name	GP107	Polaris 20
Launch date	10 Feb 2020	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	692	693
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$301.69
Price now		$169.99
Value for money (0-100)		62.57
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1468 MHz	1340 MHz
Core clock speed	1354 MHz	1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	58.72 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	29.36 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.879 TFLOPS
Pipelines	640	2304
Pixel fill rate	23.49 GPixel/s	42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate	46.98 GTexel/s	192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	185 Watt
Transistor count	3300 million	5,700 million
Compute units		36
Floating-point performance		6.2 TFLOPs
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture Units		144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bridgeless CrossFire
Laptop size		large
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.06 GB/s	256 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1752 MHz (7008 MHz effective)	8000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
API support
DirectX		12
OpenCL		2.0
OpenGL		4.5
Vulkan
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready