NVIDIA GeForce MX550 vs Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 and 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX550's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1650MHz vs 1320MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX550 +6%

2.703 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

2.534 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

VS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce MX

Generation

HD Graphics-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1065MHz

Base Clock

300MHz

1320MHz

Boost Clock

1650MHz

1500MHz

Memory Clock

2133MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00 GB/s

Bandwidth

68.26 GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2MB

L2 Cache

1024KB

Theoretical Performance

21.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.60 GPixel/s

42.24 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.20 GTexel/s

2.703 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.069 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.534 TFLOPS

42.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

633.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

DG1

MX550

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Generation 12.1

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

12 nm

Process Size

10 nm

4,700 million

Transistors

Unknown

200mm²

Die Size

95mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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