HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge) - video card comparison
HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge)
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
Stoney Ridge
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2011
June 2016
Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
600 MHz
Core clock speed
350 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
-
3100 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6
128
Power consumption (TDP)
-
15 Watt
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
64 Bit
Shared memory
+
+
DirectX
10.1
12 (FL 12_0)
Vulkan
-
+