UHD Graphics Xe 24EUs vs HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)	Gen. 12 (2021−2023)
GPU code name	Sandy Bridge	no data
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 May 2011 (13 years ago)	no data (2024 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 cores	6	32
Core clock speed	350 MHz	450 MHz
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	no data

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 bus width	64/128 Bit	no data
Shared memory	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX

10.1

12_1

Pros & cons summary

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