AMD Cypress
VS
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
AMD Cypress
VS
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cypress and Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge). Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
1015
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge
Cypress
Code name
Sandy Bridge
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
1 May 2011 (10 years ago)
$12.72
Price now
$760
Cypress
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cypress and Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1600
Pipelines
6
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Core clock speed
350 MHz
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Boost Clock
1100 MHz
2,154 million
Transistor count
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40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
1600
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6
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Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
2,154 million
Number of transistors
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cypress and Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge). Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1
4.4
OpenGL
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Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cypress and Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cypress or Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cypress
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cypress
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cypress
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cypress
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cypress
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cypress

Cheaper ($12.72 vs $760)

More pipelines (1600 vs 6)

Advantages of Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

0.97% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (32 nm vs 40 nm)

So, AMD Cypress or Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) .

AMD Cypress versus Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Cypress
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)