HD Graphics 3000 and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
HD Graphics 3000
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
February 2011
April 2012
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
350 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
20.4 gflops
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
995 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
12
6
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
unknown
Texture fill rate
13.80
6.900
Memory type
System Shared
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
System Shared
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
System Shared
Shared memory
+
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (11_0)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
3.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80