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HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) vs Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking441not rated
Place by popularity76not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GPU code nameTiger Lake XeSandy Bridge
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 August 2020 (4 years ago)1 May 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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 cores966
Core clock speed400 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speed1350 MHz1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology10 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Wattno data

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 widthno data64/128 Bit
Shared memory++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_110.1

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3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution.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.

Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs 25394
+2502%
HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 976

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Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks.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

Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs 26930
+1817%
HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 1405

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 August 2020 1 May 2011
Chip lithography 10 nm 32 nm

Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 220% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs and HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge). We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs
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