GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) with GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, including specs and performance data.

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
2011
0.34

RTX 3060 Ti outperforms HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) by a whopping 15524% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking129649
Place by popularitynot in top-10023
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data69.06
Power efficiencyno data18.21
ArchitectureGen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameSandy BridgeGA104
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2011 (13 years ago)1 December 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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 cores64864
Core clock speed350 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistorsno data17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data200 Watt
Texture fill rateno data253.1
Floating-point processing powerno data16.2 TFLOPS
ROPsno data80
TMUsno data152
Tensor Coresno data152
Ray Tracing Coresno data38

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 12-pin

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 GB/s
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 data1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-8.6

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 (Sandy Bridge) 0.34
RTX 3060 Ti 53.12
+15524%

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
RTX 3060 Ti 78597
+7953%

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
RTX 3060 Ti 153968
+10862%

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 HD7
−1914%
141
+1914%
1440p-0−178
4K-0−148

Cost per frame, $

1080pno data2.83
1440pno data5.12
4Kno data8.31

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−4050%
83
+4050%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−3933%
121
+3933%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
−5050%
100−110
+5050%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−3950%
81
+3950%
Hitman 3 4−5
−2700%
110−120
+2700%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
−2475%
200−210
+2475%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
−5125%
200−210
+5125%
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30
−414%
140−150
+414%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−6433%
196
+6433%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
−5050%
100−110
+5050%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−3800%
78
+3800%
Hitman 3 4−5
−2700%
110−120
+2700%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
−2475%
200−210
+2475%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
−4700%
192
+4700%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
−1122%
110−120
+1122%
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30
−414%
140−150
+414%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−2400%
75
+2400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
−5050%
100−110
+5050%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−3750%
77
+3750%
Hitman 3 4−5
−2700%
110−120
+2700%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
−1650%
140
+1650%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
−4250%
174
+4250%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
−922%
92
+922%
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30
−175%
77
+175%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 0−1 52
Hitman 3 6−7
−1133%
70−75
+1133%
Horizon Zero Dawn 2−3
−5600%
114
+5600%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3
−4450%
90−95
+4450%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
−4400%
45
+4400%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1 40

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3
−2450%
50−55
+2450%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 95
+0%
95
+0%
Battlefield 5 160−170
+0%
160−170
+0%
Far Cry 5 100−110
+0%
100−110
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 210−220
+0%
210−220
+0%
Metro Exodus 140−150
+0%
140−150
+0%
Red Dead Redemption 2 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 81
+0%
81
+0%
Battlefield 5 160−170
+0%
160−170
+0%
Far Cry 5 100−110
+0%
100−110
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 210−220
+0%
210−220
+0%
Metro Exodus 140−150
+0%
140−150
+0%
Red Dead Redemption 2 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 74
+0%
74
+0%
Far Cry 5 100−110
+0%
100−110
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 173
+0%
173
+0%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 80−85
+0%
80−85
+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 65
+0%
65
+0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 60
+0%
60
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 60−65
+0%
60−65
+0%
Far Cry 5 60−65
+0%
60−65
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 260−270
+0%
260−270
+0%
Metro Exodus 93
+0%
93
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 139
+0%
139
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 85−90
+0%
85−90
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 247
+0%
247
+0%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 55−60
+0%
55−60
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 45−50
+0%
45−50
+0%
Hitman 3 57
+0%
57
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 210−220
+0%
210−220
+0%
Metro Exodus 75−80
+0%
75−80
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 77
+0%
77
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 35−40
+0%
35−40
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 25
+0%
25
+0%
Far Cry 5 30−35
+0%
30−35
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 103
+0%
103
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 84
+0%
84
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 33
+0%
33
+0%

This is how HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and RTX 3060 Ti compete in popular games:

  • RTX 3060 Ti is 1914% faster in 1080p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, with 1080p resolution and the High Preset, the RTX 3060 Ti is 6433% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • RTX 3060 Ti is ahead in 29 tests (41%)
  • there's a draw in 41 test (59%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.34 53.12
Recency 1 May 2011 1 December 2020
Chip lithography 32 nm 8 nm

RTX 3060 Ti has a 15523.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is our recommended choice as it beats the HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) in performance tests.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a desktop one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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