Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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

Main Differences

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

2.534 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550 +6%

2.703 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2022

HD Graphics-M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

2133 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

LPDDR4X

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

68.26GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

32

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

79.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

5.069 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

2.534 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

633.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG1

GPU Name

TU117

-

GPU Variant

MX550

Generation 12.1

Architecture

Turing

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

10 nm

Process Size

12 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.7 billion

95 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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