Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) - review. GPU Benchmark & Specs

Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) graphics card review. Benchmark and Specs

Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) graphics card (also called GPU) comes in 939 in the performance rating. It is a good result. The graphics card Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) runs with the minimal clock speed 350 MHz. It is featured by the acceleration option and able to run up to 1100 MHz. The manufacturer has equipped INTEL with GB of memory, clock speed and bandwidth .

The power consumption of the graphics card is , and the fabrication process is only 32 nm. Below you will find the main data on the compatibility, sizes, technologies and gaming performance test results. Also you can read and leave the comments.

Let's take a closer look at the most important specifications of the graphics card. To have a good idea what a graphics card is the best, we recommend to use comparison service.

General info

The basic set of information will help you find out the graphics card Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) release date and its purpose (laptops or PCs), as well as the price at the time of the release and the average current price. This data also includes the architecture employed by the producer, and the chip’s codename.

Technical specs

This is the important information that defines the graphics card’s capacity. The simpler the device production process, the better. The core’s power frequency is responsible for its speed (direct correlation) while the elaboration of signals is performed by the transistors (the more transistors, the faster the computations are carried out).

Pipelines:

Core clock speed:

350 MHz

Boost Clock:

1100 MHz

Manufacturing process technology:

32 nm

Pipelines / CUDA cores:

Boost clock speed:

1100 MHz

Overall gaming performance

All tests have been based on FPS counter. Let’s have a look on what place Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) has been taken in the gaming performance test (calculation has been made in accordance with the game developer recommendations about system requirements; it can differ from the real world situations).

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Horizon Zero Dawn (2020)

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Death Stranding (2020)

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F1 2020 (2020)

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Gears Tactics (2020)

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Doom Eternal (2020)

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Legend

Stutter – The performance of this graphics cards with this game is not well explored yet. According to interpolated information obtained from graphics cards of similar efficiency levels, the game is likely to stutter and show low frame rates.

May Stutter – The performance of this graphics cards with this game is not well explored yet. According to interpolated information obtained from graphics cards of similar efficiency levels, the game is likely to stutter and show low frame rates.

Fluent – According to all known benchmarks with the specified graphical settings, this game is expected to run at 25fps or more

Fluent – According to all known benchmarks with the specified graphical settings, this game is expected to run at 35fps or more

Fluent – According to all known benchmarks with the specified graphical settings, this game is expected to run at 58fps or more

May Run Fluently – The performance of this graphics cards with this game is not well explored yet. According to interpolated information obtained from graphics cards of similar efficiency levels, the game is likely to show fluent frame rates.

Uncertain – The testing of this graphics cards on this game showed unexpected results. A slower card might be able to produce higher and more consistent frame rates when running the same benchmark scene.

Uncertain – The performance of this graphics cards with this game is not well explored yet. No reliable data interpolation can be made based on the performance of similar cards of the same category.

The value in the fields reflects the average frame rate across the entire database. To obtain individual results, move your cursor over the value.

Benchmark

Benchmarks help determine the performance in standard tests for Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge). We have listed the world’s most famous benchmarks so that you could obtain accurate results in each (see the description). Graphics card preliminary testing is especially important in the presence of high loads so that the user could see to what extent the graphic processing unit copes with computations and data elaboration.

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

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3DMark Vantage Performance

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Place in performance rating:		1015
Architecture:		Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge
Code name:		Sandy Bridge
Type:		Laptop
Release date:		1 May 2011 (10 years ago)
Price now:		$760
GPU code name:		Sandy Bridge
Market segment:		Laptop

Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) graphics card review. Benchmark and Specs

General info

Technical specs

API support

Overall gaming performance

Benchmark

Overall benchmark performance

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

3DMark Vantage Performance