NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX550 and AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1275 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 65 Watt
Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4541 vs 3197
Around 67% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34403 vs 20572

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 3 April 2018
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz vs 1275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4541 vs 3197
Geekbench - OpenCL	34403 vs 20572

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

Around 10% higher core clock speed: 1175 MHz vs 1065 MHz
Around 93% higher texture fill rate: 81.60 GTexel/s vs 42.24 GTexel/s
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
4.7x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 435 vs 399

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1175 MHz vs 1065 MHz
Texture fill rate	81.60 GTexel/s vs 42.24 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	435 vs 399

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX550
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

399

435

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4541

3197

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

34403

20572

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)
PassMark - G2D Mark	399	435
PassMark - G3D Mark	4541	3197
Geekbench - OpenCL	34403	20572
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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1826

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 4.0
Code name	TU117	Baffin
Launch date	2022	3 April 2018
Place in performance rating	474	475
Design		Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Type		Desktop, Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz	1275 MHz
Core clock speed	1065 MHz	1175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 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	1024
Pixel fill rate	21.12 GPixel/s	20.40 GP/s
Texture fill rate	42.24 GTexel/s	81.60 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	3,000 million
Compute units		14/16
Floating-point performance		2.6 TFLOPs
Render output units		16
Stream Processors		896/1024
Texture Units		64
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 (12_1)	12
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	112 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support