HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge): specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.34% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

Intel started HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) sales 1 May 2011. This is a Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge architecture notebook card based on 32 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use.

Primary details

Some basic facts about HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge): architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1296
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GPU code nameSandy Bridge
Market segmentLaptop
Release date1 May 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)'s specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)'s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed350 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed1100 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology32 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge): its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory bus width64/128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Shared memory+

API compatibility

APIs supported by HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge), sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX10.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge). 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 (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3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution.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 (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 (Sandy Bridge) 1405

Gaming performance

Let's see how good HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD7

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 0−1
Hitman 3 6−7
Horizon Zero Dawn 2−3

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3

Closest competitors

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)'s performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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Community ratings

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