Intel UHD Graphics (Alder Lake 64 EU) vs Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Comparative analysis of Intel UHD Graphics (Alder Lake 64 EU) and Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, API support, Technologies, Memory.

Intel UHD Graphics (Alder Lake 64 EU)

Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel UHD Graphics (Alder Lake 64 EU)

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 27% higher boost clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1100 MHz
85.3x more pipelines: 512 vs 6
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 32 nm

Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 1 May 2011
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines	512 vs 6
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 32 nm

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Around 17% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel UHD Graphics (Alder Lake 64 EU)	Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
Essentials
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	1 May 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Architecture		Sandy Bridge
Code name		Sandy Bridge
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz	1100 MHz
Compute units	64
Core clock speed	300 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	32 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	358.4 GFLOPS (1:4)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	2.867 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1434 GFLOPS
Pipelines	512	6
Pixel fill rate	22.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	44.80 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt
Video outputs and ports
HDCP
Number of simultaneous displays	3
API support
DirectX	12.1	10.1
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
Memory
Memory bus width		64 / 128 Bit
Shared memory		yes