HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge): specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.31% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
Contents
Summary
Intel started HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) sales 1 May 2011. This is a Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge architecture notebook card based on 32 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use.
Primary details
Some basic facts about HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge): architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1345 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011) | |
| GPU code name | Sandy Bridge | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 1 May 2011 (14 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)'s specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)'s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 6 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 350 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 1100 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 32 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge): 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 bus width | 64/128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Shared memory | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge), sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge). The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 7 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 5−6 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 4−5 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 5−6 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 7−8 | |
| Valorant | 24−27 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 10 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2 | |
| Dota 2 | 10−11 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 4−5 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 5−6 | |
| Metro Exodus | 0−1 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 7−8 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6 | |
| Valorant | 24−27 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2 | |
| Dota 2 | 10−11 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 4−5 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 5−6 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 7−8 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6 | |
| Valorant | 24−27 |
1440p
High Preset
| Counter-Strike 2 | 2−3 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 0−1 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 3−4 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Forza Horizon 4 | 1−2 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 0−1 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 0−1 |
1440p
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 0−1 |
4K
High Preset
| Grand Theft Auto V | 14−16 | |
| Valorant | 2−3 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 1−2 |
4K
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 2−3 |
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) according to our statistics.
