GeForce RTX 4090 vs HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Aggregate performance score

We've compared HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) with GeForce RTX 4090, including specs and performance data.

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
2011
0.34

RTX 4090 outperforms HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) by a whopping 29312% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking12961
Place by popularitynot in top-1006
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data18.83
Power efficiencyno data15.23
ArchitectureGen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameSandy BridgeAD102
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2011 (13 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,599

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 cores616384
Core clock speed350 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistorsno data76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data450 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,290
Floating-point processing powerno data82.58 TFLOPS
ROPsno data176
TMUsno data512
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data128

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 data304 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-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 dataGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amountno data24 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1313 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.01 TB/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 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

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 4090 100.00
+29312%

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 4090 137609
+13999%

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 4090 260357
+18437%

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
−3600%
259
+3600%
1440p0−1200
4K-0−1143

Cost per frame, $

1080pno data6.17
1440pno data8.00
4Kno data11.18

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−11150%
225
+11150%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−7733%
235
+7733%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
−5900%
120−130
+5900%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−11000%
222
+11000%
Hitman 3 4−5
−3125%
120−130
+3125%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
−4300%
350−400
+4300%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
−11450%
450−500
+11450%
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30
−450%
150−160
+450%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−6667%
200−210
+6667%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
−5900%
120−130
+5900%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−10600%
214
+10600%
Hitman 3 4−5
−3125%
120−130
+3125%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
−4300%
350−400
+4300%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
−13600%
548
+13600%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
−2578%
240−250
+2578%
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30
−450%
150−160
+450%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−5867%
179
+5867%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
−5900%
120−130
+5900%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−10400%
210
+10400%
Hitman 3 4−5
−3125%
120−130
+3125%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
−4825%
394
+4825%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
−13425%
541
+13425%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
−3289%
305
+3289%
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30
−446%
153
+446%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 0−1 154
Hitman 3 6−7
−2200%
130−140
+2200%
Horizon Zero Dawn 2−3
−19300%
388
+19300%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3
−6350%
120−130
+6350%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
−11900%
120
+11900%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1 120

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3
−5450%
110−120
+5450%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 287
+0%
287
+0%
Battlefield 5 240−250
+0%
240−250
+0%
Far Cry 5 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 200−210
+0%
200−210
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 290−300
+0%
290−300
+0%
Metro Exodus 150−160
+0%
150−160
+0%
Red Dead Redemption 2 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 248
+0%
248
+0%
Battlefield 5 240−250
+0%
240−250
+0%
Far Cry 5 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 200−210
+0%
200−210
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 290−300
+0%
290−300
+0%
Metro Exodus 150−160
+0%
150−160
+0%
Red Dead Redemption 2 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 220
+0%
220
+0%
Far Cry 5 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 290−300
+0%
290−300
+0%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 160−170
+0%
160−170
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 155
+0%
155
+0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 183
+0%
183
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 80−85
+0%
80−85
+0%
Far Cry 5 80−85
+0%
80−85
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 270−280
+0%
270−280
+0%
Metro Exodus 152
+0%
152
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 504
+0%
504
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 268
+0%
268
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 240−250
+0%
240−250
+0%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 85−90
+0%
85−90
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 65−70
+0%
65−70
+0%
Hitman 3 80−85
+0%
80−85
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 105
+0%
105
+0%
Metro Exodus 140−150
+0%
140−150
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 281
+0%
281
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 80
+0%
80
+0%
Far Cry 5 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 250−260
+0%
250−260
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 282
+0%
282
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 117
+0%
117
+0%

This is how HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and RTX 4090 compete in popular games:

  • RTX 4090 is 3600% faster in 1080p

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

  • in Horizon Zero Dawn, with 1440p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the RTX 4090 is 19300% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • RTX 4090 is ahead in 29 tests (41%)
  • there's a draw in 41 test (59%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.34 100.00
Recency 1 May 2011 20 September 2022
Chip lithography 32 nm 5 nm

RTX 4090 has a 29311.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 11 years, and a 540% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 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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