Sandy Bridge GT2+ and Renoir - video card comparison

Sandy Bridge GT2+

Renoir

Architecture

Generation 6.0 (2011)

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Sandy Bridge GT2+

Renoir

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

32 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

1,160 million

9,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

512

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1

OpenGL

3.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3