NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX550 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 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 RX Vega 6

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1100 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 404 vs 320
4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4606 vs 1015

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 7 January 2018
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	404 vs 320
PassMark - G3D Mark	4606 vs 1015

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX550
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

404

320

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4606

1015

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6
PassMark - G2D Mark	404	320
PassMark - G3D Mark	4606	1015
Geekbench - OpenCL	34979
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 RX Vega 6
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 5th gen
Code name	TU117	Vega Raven Ridge
Launch date	2022	7 January 2018
Place in performance rating	451	447
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz	1100 MHz
Core clock speed	1065 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	384
Pipelines	1024
Pixel fill rate	21.12 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	42.24 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	4500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 (12_1)	12.1
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)	6.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6