HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) vs HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated1151
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for moneyno data0.01
ArchitectureGen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code nameSandy BridgeIvy Bridge GT1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 May 2011 (12 years old)1 October 2012 (11 years old)
Current price$760 $168
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores66
Core clock speed350 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology32 nm22 nm

Memory

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 Bit64/128 Bit
Shared memory++

API support

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

DirectX10.111.0

Synthetic benchmark performance

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3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution.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

Benchmark coverage: 17%

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 976
HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) 1491
+52.8%

HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) outperforms HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) by 53% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

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Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks.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

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 1405
HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) 2286
+62.8%

HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) outperforms HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) by 63% in 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 May 2011 1 October 2012
Chip lithography 32 nm 22 nm

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