NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX550 and Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
3.6x more core clock speed: 1065 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 60% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 640

Launch date	2022 vs 2 Sep 2020
Core clock speed	1065 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines	1024 vs 640

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU

2.1x more texture fill rate: 88.00 GTexel/s vs 42.24 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 12 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 25 Watt

Texture fill rate	88.00 GTexel/s vs 42.24 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 25 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX550
GPU 2: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU
PassMark - G2D Mark	396
PassMark - G3D Mark	4527
Geekbench - OpenCL	34265
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		1243

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Generation 12.0
Code name	TU117	Tiger Lake GT2
Launch date	2022	2 Sep 2020
Place in performance rating	452	1056
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz	1100 MHz
Core clock speed	1065 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	10 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	42.24 GFLOPS (1:64)	352.0 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	2.703 TFLOPS (1:1)	2.816 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.703 TFLOPS	1408 GFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	640
Pixel fill rate	21.12 GPixel/s	22.00 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	42.24 GTexel/s	88.00 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million
Compute units		80
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
Width		IGP
API support
DirectX	12 (12_1)	12.1
OpenCL	3.0	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)	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