Our test clearly shows that the air is getting thinner for slow dedicated GPUs. The current Radeon 680M of the Ryzen 6000 generation raised the bar for integrated GPUs significantly and there is not really a good reason to invest the additional money and space on the mainboard for a dedicated GPU. The GeForce MX550 is a small performance upgrade over the old GeForce MX450, because the basic chip design is still identical and 2 GB VRAM is not very generous, either, which is noticeable at higher resolutions and settings. However, the MX550 cannot deliver playable frame rates in these cases anyway. Compact laptops with Intel CPU can still benefit from the GeForce MX550 if you want to play a bit more since the MX550 is noticeably faster than the Iris Xe Graphics G7. The synthetic benchmarks results of the new Intel Arc A350M are often competitive, but it seems that there has been a big focus on the performance in popular benchmarks. The actual gaming performance of the new Arc A350M even falls behind the integrated Radeon 680M in some cases. Intel definitely has to improve this situation, which is also the case for the efficiency. There might be some improvements along the road via driver updates, but right now, we cannot recommend the Arc A350M.