NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX550 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX550

• Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1065 MHz vs 810 MHz
• Around 35% higher boost clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 980 MHz
• 2693.9x more texture fill rate: 42.24 GTexel/s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
• 2.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 384
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
• Around 80% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 45 Watt
• 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 396 vs 149
• 5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4527 vs 793
• 8.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34265 vs 3866
• 10.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 102.448 vs 9.392
• 6.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1017.021 vs 157.479
• 5.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 4.996 vs 0.864
• 5.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 87.46 vs 16.101
• 13.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 587.99 vs 44.77

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

• Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 1802 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	396 149
PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	4527 793
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	34265 3866
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	102.448 9.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1017.021 157.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4.996 0.864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	87.46 16.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	587.99 44.77

Compare specifications (specs)