UHD Graphics 750 vs HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated655
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.73
ArchitectureGen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameSandy BridgeRocket Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2011 (13 years ago)30 March 2021 (3 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 cores6256
Core clock speed350 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology32 nm14 nm+++
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data20.80
Floating-point processing powerno data0.6656 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
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+no data

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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2011 30 March 2021
Chip lithography 32 nm 14 nm

UHD Graphics 750 has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 128.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and UHD Graphics 750. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) is a notebook card while UHD Graphics 750 is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
Intel UHD Graphics 750
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