HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) vs HD Graphics 3000

Place in the ranking	1190	1298
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Generation 6.0 (2011)	Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GPU code name	Sandy Bridge GT2+	Sandy Bridge
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 February 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 cores	96	6
Core clock speed	650 MHz	350 MHz
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz	1100 MHz
Number of transistors	1,160 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	unknown	no data
Texture fill rate	15.60	no data
Floating-point processing power	0.2496 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	2	no data
TMUs	12	no 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).

Interface

Ring Bus

no 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 type	System Shared	no data
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	no data
Memory bus width	System Shared	64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	no 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 Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	10.1
Shader Model	4.1	no data
OpenGL	3.1	no data
OpenCL	N/A	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

HD Graphics 3000 0.66
+94.1%

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 0.34

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.

HD Graphics 3000 1568
+60.7%

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.

HD Graphics 3000 2503
+78.2%

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 1405

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 HD

9
+12.5%

−12.5%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2	9−10 +12.5%	8−9 −12.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Counter-Strike 2	9−10 +12.5%	8−9 −12.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	6−7 +20%	5−6 −20%
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%

Full HD
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	9−10 +12.5%	8−9 −12.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Dota 2	3 +200%	1−2 −200%
Far Cry 5	8−9 +33.3%	6−7 −33.3%
Fortnite	1−2	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	6−7 +20%	5−6 −20%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	9−10 +28.6%	7−8 −28.6%
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
World of Tanks	11 +10%	10 −10%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Counter-Strike 2	9−10 +12.5%	8−9 −12.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Dota 2	7 +133%	3−4 −133%
Far Cry 5	8−9 +33.3%	6−7 −33.3%
Forza Horizon 4	6−7 +20%	5−6 −20%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	9−10 +28.6%	7−8 −28.6%

1440p
High Preset

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
World of Tanks	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Counter-Strike 2	9−10 +0%	9−10 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Far Cry 5	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Valorant	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%

4K
High Preset

Dota 2	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%
Grand Theft Auto V	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%