NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX550 and AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM 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).

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 1065 MHz vs 650 MHz
8123.1x more texture fill rate: 42.24 GTexel/s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
12.8x more pipelines: 1024 vs 80
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Around 12% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 1334 MHz
Around 78% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 396 vs 222
27.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4527 vs 163
11.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34265 vs 2883

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 8 January 2013
Core clock speed	1065 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	42.24 GTexel/s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 80
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 1334 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	396 vs 222
PassMark - G3D Mark	4527 vs 163
Geekbench - OpenCL	34265 vs 2883

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM

Around 32% lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 25 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 25 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX550
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

396

222

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4527

163

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

34265

2883

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark	396	222
PassMark - G3D Mark	4527	163
Geekbench - OpenCL	34265	2883
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)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	TeraScale 2
Code name	TU117	Cedar
Launch date	2022	8 January 2013
Place in performance rating	452	1088
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz
Core clock speed	1065 MHz	650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	40 nm
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
Pipelines	1024	80
Pixel fill rate	21.12 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	42.24 GTexel/s	5.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	19 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	292 million
Floating-point performance		104.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		168 mm
API support
DirectX	12 (12_1)	11.2
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	10.67 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	1334 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3