AMD Radeon E6760 PCIe vs Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E6760 PCIe and Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon E6760 PCIe

Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E6760 PCIe

Around 71% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 350 MHz
80x more pipelines: 480 vs 6

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 350 MHz
Pipelines	480 vs 6

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm

Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 40 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E6760 PCIe	Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Sandy Bridge
Code name	Turks	Sandy Bridge
Launch date	2 May 2011	1 May 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	480	6
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt
Transistor count	716 million
Boost clock speed		1100 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	175 mm
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory		yes