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HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and HD Graphics 505 - video card comparison


HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

HD Graphics 505


Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
Gen. 9 Apollo Lake (2016−2017)

GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
Apollo Lake

Market segment
Laptop
Laptop

Release date
May 2011
September 2016

Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x1

Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
750 MHz

Core clock speed
350 MHz
300 MHz

Floating-point performance
-
230.4 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
14 nm

Number of transistors
-
189 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
6
18

Power consumption (TDP)
-
10 Watt

Texture fill rate
-
11.70

Memory type
-
DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4

Maximum RAM amount
-
8 GB

Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
64/128 Bit

Memory clock speed
-
System Shared

Shared memory
+
+

Display Connectors
-
No outputs

DirectX
10.1
12 (12_1)

OpenCL
-
2.1

OpenGL
-
4.6

Shader Model
-
6.4

Vulkan
-
1.1.97

Quick Sync
-
+