NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX550 and Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
3.6x more core clock speed: 1065 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 33% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 768
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 396 vs 311
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4527 vs 1972
2.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34265 vs 14238

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 31 Oct 2020
Core clock speed	1065 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines	1024 vs 768
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	396 vs 311
PassMark - G3D Mark	4527 vs 1972
Geekbench - OpenCL	34265 vs 14238

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX

Around 25% higher boost clock speed: 1650 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Around 88% higher texture fill rate: 79.20 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
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 42% higher memory clock speed: 2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective) vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Boost clock speed	1650 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Texture fill rate	79.20 GTexel/s vs 42.24 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 12 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective) vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX550
GPU 2: Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

396

311

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4527

1972

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

34265

14238

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX
PassMark - G2D Mark	396	311
PassMark - G3D Mark	4527	1972
Geekbench - OpenCL	34265	14238
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)		6889
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6889
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3462
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3214
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3214

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX550	Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Generation 12.1
Code name	TU117	DG1
Launch date	2022	31 Oct 2020
Place in performance rating	452	523
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1320 MHz	1650 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)	633.6 GFLOPS (1:4)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	2.703 TFLOPS (1:1)	5.069 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.703 TFLOPS	2.534 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	768
Pixel fill rate	21.12 GPixel/s	39.60 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	42.24 GTexel/s	79.20 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million
Compute units		96
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x4
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	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	68.26 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	LPDDR4X