Arc 7-Cores iGPU vs HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

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ArchitectureGen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)Xe LPG (2023)
GPU code nameSandy BridgeMeteor Lake iGPU
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 May 2011 (13 years ago)14 December 2023 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores67
Core clock speed350 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1100 MHz2200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology32 nm5 nm

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory bus width64/128 Bitno data
Shared memory+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.112_2

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. 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3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution.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.

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 976
Arc 7-Cores iGPU 38592
+3854%

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Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks.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.

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 1405
Arc 7-Cores iGPU 45644
+3150%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2011 14 December 2023
Chip lithography 32 nm 5 nm

Arc 7-Cores iGPU has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 540% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and Arc 7-Cores iGPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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