Quadro T2000 Mobile vs HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated263
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data24.05
ArchitectureGen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameSandy BridgeTU117
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date1 May 2011 (13 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 years 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 cores61024
Core clock speed350 MHz1575 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1785 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data60 Watt
Texture fill rateno data114.2
Floating-point processing powerno data3.656 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64

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 sizeno datamedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data128.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2011 27 May 2019
Chip lithography 32 nm 12 nm

T2000 Mobile has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 166.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and Quadro T2000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) is a notebook graphics card while Quadro T2000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
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NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Mobile
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