HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) vs GeForce GTX 570M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking635not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.45no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GPU code nameGF114Sandy Bridge
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date28 June 2011 (13 years ago)1 May 2011 (13 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 cores3366
Core clock speed575 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate32.20no data
Floating-point processing power0.7728 TFLOPSno data
ROPs24no data
TMUs56no 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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount1536 MBno data
Memory bus width192 Bit64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth72.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

Supported technologies

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

3D Blu-Ray+-
3D Gaming+-
Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 API10.1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.5no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

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.

GTX 570M 11060
+1033%
HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 976

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2011 1 May 2011
Chip lithography 40 nm 32 nm

GTX 570M has an age advantage of 1 month.

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge), on the other hand, has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 570M and HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge). We've got no test results to judge.


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Community ratings

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