HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and GeForce 6500 - video card comparison
HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
GeForce 6500
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
NV44 A2
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2011
October 2005
Interface
-
PCIe 1.0 x16
Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
-
Core clock speed
350 MHz
400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
-
75 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6
-
Texture fill rate
-
1.600
Memory type
-
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
-
128 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
8.512 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
-
N/A
OpenGL
-
2.1
Shader Model
-
3.0
Vulkan
-
N/A