In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GT 550M 2GB are marginally better than the AMD Radeon R5 M335 2GB.

The R5 M335 has a 330 MHz higher core clock speed and 4 more Texture Mapping Units than the GT 550M. This results in the R5 M335 providing 9.6 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The R5 M335 has a 330 MHz higher core clock speed and 4 more Render Output Units than the GT 550M. This results in the R5 M335 providing 5.6 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The R5 M335 was released over three years more recently than the GT 550M, and so the R5 M335 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the GT 550M when running the latest games.

The Radeon R5 M335 2GB and the GeForce GT 550M 2GB have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.

The GT 550M has 11.2 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R5 M335, which means that the memory performance of the GT 550M is slightly better than the R5 M335.

The Radeon R5 M335 2GB has 320 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GT 550M 2GB has 96. However, the actual shader performance of the R5 M335 is 291 and the actual shader performance of the GT 550M is 142. The R5 M335 having 149 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the GT 550M performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The R5 M335 transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GT 550M. This means that the R5 M335 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GT 550M. While they exhibit similar graphical performance, the R5 M335 should consume less power than the GT 550M.

The Radeon R5 M335 2GB requires 25 Watts to run and the GeForce GT 550M 2GB requires 35 Watts. The GT 550M requires 10 Watts more than the R5 M335 to run. The difference is not significant enough for the GT 550M to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the R5 M335.