GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile vs HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
Aggregate performance score
We've compared HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.
RTX 5070 Mobile outperforms HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) by a whopping 14376% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1343 | 77 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 72.78 |
| Architecture | Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011) | Blackwell 2.0 (2025) |
| GPU code name | Sandy Bridge | GB206 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 1 May 2011 (14 years ago) | April 2025 (recently) |
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 cores | 6 | 4608 |
| Core clock speed | 350 MHz | 907 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1100 MHz | 1425 MHz |
| Number of transistors | no data | 21,900 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 32 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 50 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | no data | 205.2 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 13.13 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | no data | 48 |
| TMUs | no data | 144 |
| Tensor Cores | no data | 144 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 36 |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | no data | medium sized |
| Interface | no data | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
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 type | no data | GDDR7 |
| Maximum RAM amount | no data | 8 GB |
| Memory bus width | 64/128 Bit | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | no data | 1500 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 384.0 GB/s |
| Shared memory | + | - |
| Resizable BAR | - | + |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | no data | Portable Device Dependent |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 10.1 | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | no data | 6.8 |
| OpenGL | no data | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | no data | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | - | 1.4 |
| CUDA | - | 12.0 |
| DLSS | - | + |
Synthetic benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
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.
Gaming performance
Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 7
−1614%
| 120
+1614%
|
| 1440p | -0−1 | 70 |
| 4K | -0−1 | 57 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2
−11500%
|
110−120
+11500%
|
| Hogwarts Legacy | 5−6
−2260%
|
110−120
+2260%
|
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2
−11500%
|
110−120
+11500%
|
| Forza Horizon 4 | 4−5
−4550%
|
180−190
+4550%
|
| Hogwarts Legacy | 5−6
−2260%
|
110−120
+2260%
|
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 7−8
−2357%
|
170−180
+2357%
|
| Valorant | 24−27
−927%
|
260−270
+927%
|
Full HD
High Preset
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 10
−2680%
|
270−280
+2680%
|
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2
−11500%
|
110−120
+11500%
|
| Dota 2 | 10−11
−13900%
|
1400−1450
+13900%
|
| Forza Horizon 4 | 4−5
−4550%
|
180−190
+4550%
|
| Hogwarts Legacy | 5−6
−2260%
|
110−120
+2260%
|
| Metro Exodus | 0−1 | 110−120 |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 7−8
−2357%
|
170−180
+2357%
|
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6
−3640%
|
180−190
+3640%
|
| Valorant | 24−27
−927%
|
260−270
+927%
|
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2
−11500%
|
110−120
+11500%
|
| Dota 2 | 10−11
−13900%
|
1400−1450
+13900%
|
| Forza Horizon 4 | 4−5
−4550%
|
180−190
+4550%
|
| Hogwarts Legacy | 5−6
−2260%
|
110−120
+2260%
|
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 7−8
−2357%
|
170−180
+2357%
|
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6
−2000%
|
105
+2000%
|
| Valorant | 24−27
−14323%
|
3750−3800
+14323%
|
1440p
High Preset
| Counter-Strike 2 | 2−3
−5650%
|
115
+5650%
|
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 0−1 | 300−350 |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 4−5
−13650%
|
550−600
+13650%
|
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Forza Horizon 4 | 1−2
−14600%
|
140−150
+14600%
|
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 0−1 | 100−105 |
1440p
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 0−1 | 130−140 |
4K
High Preset
| Grand Theft Auto V | 14−16
−740%
|
126
+740%
|
| Valorant | 2−3
−14200%
|
280−290
+14200%
|
4K
Ultra Preset
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 1−2
−7600%
|
75−80
+7600%
|
4K
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 2−3
−3350%
|
65−70
+3350%
|
Full HD
Low Preset
| Counter-Strike 2 | 250−260
+0%
|
250−260
+0%
|
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 150−160
+0%
|
150−160
+0%
|
| Counter-Strike 2 | 222
+0%
|
222
+0%
|
| Far Cry 5 | 150−160
+0%
|
150−160
+0%
|
| Fortnite | 200−210
+0%
|
200−210
+0%
|
| Forza Horizon 5 | 140−150
+0%
|
140−150
+0%
|
Full HD
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 150−160
+0%
|
150−160
+0%
|
| Counter-Strike 2 | 163
+0%
|
163
+0%
|
| Far Cry 5 | 150−160
+0%
|
150−160
+0%
|
| Fortnite | 200−210
+0%
|
200−210
+0%
|
| Forza Horizon 5 | 140−150
+0%
|
140−150
+0%
|
| Grand Theft Auto V | 150
+0%
|
150
+0%
|
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 150−160
+0%
|
150−160
+0%
|
| Far Cry 5 | 150−160
+0%
|
150−160
+0%
|
Full HD
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 200−210
+0%
|
200−210
+0%
|
1440p
High Preset
| Grand Theft Auto V | 115
+0%
|
115
+0%
|
| Metro Exodus | 75−80
+0%
|
75−80
+0%
|
| Valorant | 300−310
+0%
|
300−310
+0%
|
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 110−120
+0%
|
110−120
+0%
|
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 60−65
+0%
|
60−65
+0%
|
| Far Cry 5 | 120−130
+0%
|
120−130
+0%
|
| Hogwarts Legacy | 55−60
+0%
|
55−60
+0%
|
4K
High Preset
| Counter-Strike 2 | 60−65
+0%
|
60−65
+0%
|
| Metro Exodus | 45−50
+0%
|
45−50
+0%
|
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 80−85
+0%
|
80−85
+0%
|
4K
Ultra Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 80−85
+0%
|
80−85
+0%
|
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 27−30
+0%
|
27−30
+0%
|
| Far Cry 5 | 65−70
+0%
|
65−70
+0%
|
| Forza Horizon 4 | 100−110
+0%
|
100−110
+0%
|
| Hogwarts Legacy | 30−35
+0%
|
30−35
+0%
|
This is how HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and RTX 5070 Mobile compete in popular games:
- RTX 5070 Mobile is 1614% faster in 1080p
Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:
- in Forza Horizon 4, with 1440p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the RTX 5070 Mobile is 14600% faster.
All in all, in popular games:
- RTX 5070 Mobile performs better in 25 tests (45%)
- there's a draw in 30 tests (55%)
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.33 | 47.77 |
| Recency | 1 May 2011 | on April 2025 |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | 5 nm |
RTX 5070 Mobile has a 14375.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 13 years, and a 540% more advanced lithography process.
The GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) in performance tests.
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