HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) vs ATI Radeon HD 5770

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking663not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.80no data
Power efficiency2.85no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GPU code nameJuniperSandy Bridge
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date13 October 2009 (15 years ago)1 May 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores8006
Core clock speed850 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)108 Wattno data
Texture fill rate34.00no data
Floating-point processing power1.36 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs40no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Length208 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed4800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth76.8 GB/sno data
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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10.1
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

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.

ATI HD 5770 11699
+1099%
HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 976

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 October 2009 1 May 2011
Chip lithography 40 nm 32 nm

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5770 and HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5770 is a desktop card while HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) is a notebook one.


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