Haswell GT1 and Sandy Bridge GT2 - video card comparison

Haswell GT1

Sandy Bridge GT2

Architecture

Generation 7.5 (2013)

Generation 6.0 (2011)

GPU code name

Haswell GT1

Sandy Bridge GT2

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

22 nm

32 nm

Number of transistors

-

624 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

80

96

DirectX

12 (11_1)

11.1 (10_1)

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.3

3.1

Shader Model

5.1

4.1

Vulkan

+

N/A