AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550X 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

464 points

621 points

33% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

11 FPS

14 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS

10 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

8 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12373 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10459 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

13079 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9867 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11245 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10175 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12485 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9382 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

1469 MHz

33% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1287 MHz

1532 MHz

19% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

25 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.6 Gigapixels/s

24.51 Gigapixels/s

18% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

51.48 Gigatexels/s

40% slightly higher texture rate

36.77 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

33% slightly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

335th of 586

307th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 550X vs GeForce MX150 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 550X beats the GeForce MX150 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce MX150 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce MX150 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce MX150 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550X at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 550X over the GeForce MX150.