NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs Intel HD Graphics

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX550 and Intel HD Graphics 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Intel HD Graphics

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 3 month(s) later
3.6x more core clock speed: 1065 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 55% higher boost clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 850 MHz
32492.3x more texture fill rate: 42.24 GTexel/s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
170.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 6
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 396 vs 193
9.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4527 vs 464
6.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34265 vs 5315

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 5 January 2015
Core clock speed	1065 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	42.24 GTexel/s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 6
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	396 vs 193
PassMark - G3D Mark	4527 vs 464
Geekbench - OpenCL	34265 vs 5315

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics

4.2x lower typical power consumption: 6 Watt vs 25 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	6 Watt vs 25 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX550
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

396

193

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4527

464

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

34265

5315

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	Intel HD Graphics
PassMark - G2D Mark	396	193
PassMark - G3D Mark	4527	464
Geekbench - OpenCL	34265	5315
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		470
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	Intel HD Graphics
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Generation 8.0
Code name	TU117	Broadwell GT1
Launch date	2022	5 January 2015
Place in performance rating	452	1384
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz	850 MHz
Core clock speed	1065 MHz	300 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	6
Pixel fill rate	21.12 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	42.24 GTexel/s	1.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	6 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	1,300 million
Floating-point performance		15.6 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 x1
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
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	System Shared