HD Graphics 405 vs HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1159
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data8.31
ArchitectureGen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code nameSandy BridgeBraswell GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2011 (13 years ago)1 April 2015 (9 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 cores6128
Core clock speed350 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistorsno data189 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data6 Watt
Texture fill rateno data9.600
Floating-point processing powerno data0.1536 TFLOPS
ROPsno data2
TMUsno data16

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 dataRing Bus
Widthno dataIGP

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 dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus width64/128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.3
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-+

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.

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 976
HD Graphics 405 2081
+113%

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
HD Graphics 405 2113
+50.4%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2011 1 April 2015
Chip lithography 32 nm 14 nm

HD Graphics 405 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 128.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and HD Graphics 405. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) is a notebook card while HD Graphics 405 is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
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