Intel UHD vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Compare Intel UHD vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550, 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

445 points

1650 points

270% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

41 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

7 FPS

23 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

7 FPS

27 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

15 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5365 points

36084 points

572% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6608 points

33865 points

412% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8337 points

32349 points

288% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1065 MHz

255% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz

1320 MHz

25% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

66% significantly lower TDP

25 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

3.15 Gigapixels/s

21.12 Gigapixels/s

570% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

25.2 Gigatexels/s

42.24 Gigatexels/s

67% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

1024

433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

433% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

345th of 586

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

UHD vs GeForce MX550 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce MX550 GPU is faster than the UHD in gaming.

The GeForce MX550 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce MX550 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 UHD has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce MX550 at 25 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce MX550 over the UHD.