HD Graphics 6EU Mobile: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started HD Graphics 6EU Mobile sales 1 May 2011. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Generation 6.0 architecture and made with 32 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via Ring Bus interface. Power consumption is at 45 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about HD Graphics 6EU Mobile: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Generation 6.0 (2011) | |
| GPU code name | Sandy Bridge GT1 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 1 May 2011 (13 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
HD Graphics 6EU Mobile's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of HD Graphics 6EU Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 48 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 350 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 800 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 504 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 32 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 45 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 4.800 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.0768 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 1 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 6 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of HD Graphics 6EU Mobile and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | Ring Bus |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on HD Graphics 6EU Mobile: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Shared memory | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on HD Graphics 6EU Mobile. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | Portable Device Dependent |
API compatibility
APIs supported by HD Graphics 6EU Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_1) | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 3.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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