HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) vs Radeon RX Vega 64

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking125not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation23.13no data
Power efficiency8.70no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GPU code nameVega 10Sandy Bridge
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date7 August 2017 (7 years ago)1 May 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores40966
Core clock speed1247 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speed1546 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)295 Wattno data
Texture fill rate395.8no data
Floating-point processing power12.66 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs256no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno 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 typeHBM2no data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width2048 Bit64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed945 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth483.8 GB/sno data
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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)10.1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.1.125-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results 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.

RX Vega 64 55262
+5562%
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.

RX Vega 64 127374
+8969%
HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 1405

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 August 2017 1 May 2011
Chip lithography 14 nm 32 nm

RX Vega 64 has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 128.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 64 and HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 64 is a desktop card while HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) is a notebook one.


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