NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon R7 A265

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX550 and AMD Radeon R7 A265 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 R7 A265

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 47% higher core clock speed: 1065 MHz vs 725 MHz
Around 60% higher boost clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 825 MHz
2133.3x more texture fill rate: 42.24 GTexel/s vs 19.8 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
4.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4610 vs 994
5.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 35021 vs 6925

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 9 January 2014
Core clock speed	1065 MHz vs 725 MHz
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz vs 825 MHz
Texture fill rate	42.24 GTexel/s vs 19.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4610 vs 994
Geekbench - OpenCL	35021 vs 6925

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 A265

Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 468 vs 404

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	468 vs 404

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX550
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 A265

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

404

468

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4610

994

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

35021

6925

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	AMD Radeon R7 A265
PassMark - G2D Mark	404	468
PassMark - G3D Mark	4610	994
Geekbench - OpenCL	35021	6925
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 R7 A265
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU117	Opal
Launch date	2022	9 January 2014
Place in performance rating	451	455
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz	825 MHz
Core clock speed	1065 MHz	725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 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	384
Pixel fill rate	21.12 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	42.24 GTexel/s	19.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	1,040 million
Floating-point performance		633.6 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3