Ivy Bridge GT1 and Sandy Bridge GT1 - video card comparison

Ivy Bridge GT1

Sandy Bridge GT1

Architecture

Generation 7.0 (2012)

Generation 6.0 (2011)

GPU code name

Ivy Bridge GT1

Sandy Bridge GT1

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

22 nm

32 nm

Number of transistors

392 million

504 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

48

48

DirectX

11.1 (11_0)

11.1 (10_1)

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.0

3.1

Shader Model

5.0

4.1

Vulkan

+

N/A