HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge): specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) sales 1 May 2011. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge architecture and made with 32 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.
Primary details
Some basic facts about HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge): architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| 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 (13 years ago) | |
| Current price | $760 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 350 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1100 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 32 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
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 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Shared memory | + |
API compatibility
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.
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3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution.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.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
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Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks.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.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
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