Radeon Pro W6400 vs HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Aggregate performance score

We've compared HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) with Radeon Pro W6400, including specs and performance data.

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
2011
0.34

Pro W6400 outperforms HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) by a whopping 6062% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1295261
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data29.15
ArchitectureGen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameSandy BridgeNavi 24
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 May 2011 (13 years ago)19 January 2022 (2 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 cores6768
Core clock speed350 MHz2331 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz2331 MHz
Number of transistorsno data5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data111.9
Floating-point processing powerno data3.58 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data48
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x4
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data112.0 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 data2x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.2
Vulkan-1.3

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 HD7
−5614%
400−450
+5614%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−5900%
120−130
+5900%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−5900%
180−190
+5900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
−5900%
120−130
+5900%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−5900%
120−130
+5900%
Hitman 3 4−5
−5900%
240−250
+5900%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
−5525%
450−500
+5525%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
−5900%
240−250
+5900%
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30
−5971%
1700−1750
+5971%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−5900%
180−190
+5900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
−5900%
120−130
+5900%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−5900%
120−130
+5900%
Hitman 3 4−5
−5900%
240−250
+5900%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
−5525%
450−500
+5525%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
−5900%
240−250
+5900%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
−6011%
550−600
+6011%
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30
−5971%
1700−1750
+5971%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−5900%
180−190
+5900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
−5900%
120−130
+5900%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−5900%
120−130
+5900%
Hitman 3 4−5
−5900%
240−250
+5900%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
−5525%
450−500
+5525%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
−5900%
240−250
+5900%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
−6011%
550−600
+6011%
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30
−5971%
1700−1750
+5971%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 0−1 0−1
Hitman 3 6−7
−5733%
350−400
+5733%
Horizon Zero Dawn 2−3
−5900%
120−130
+5900%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3
−5900%
120−130
+5900%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
−5900%
60−65
+5900%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1 0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3
−5900%
120−130
+5900%

This is how HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and Pro W6400 compete in popular games:

  • Pro W6400 is 5614% faster in 1080p

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.34 20.95
Recency 1 May 2011 19 January 2022
Chip lithography 32 nm 6 nm

Pro W6400 has a 6061.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, and a 433.3% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon Pro W6400 is our recommended choice as it beats the HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) in performance tests.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) is a notebook card while Radeon Pro W6400 is a workstation one.


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