Notebookcheck Logo

NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

The Nvidia GeForce GT 320M or GT320M was presented in the HP dv6t and dv7t series and should be based on a stripped down GT216 core with 24 instead of 48 shader cores.

Beware: The GT 320M should not be confused with the newer GeForce 320M in the Apple MacBook 13" 04/2010 laptops, which is a chipset graphics card.

In conjunction with the Nvidia 9100M G integrated graphics, the GT 320M supports Hybrid-SLI (only HybridPower). HybridPower is a technique to choose between the integrated and dedicated graphics core, if performance or battery runtime is needed. This works only in Windows Vista. Up to now the user has to use a tool to switch between the GPUs. Later Nvidia wants to switch automatically in the drivers. GeForceBoost is not supported with this card, as there would be no performance gain.

The GT 320M features 24 stream processors that do the graphic work of the vertex- and pixel-shaders. Nvidia Shaders are 1-dimensional and can therefore not be directly compared to the 5-dimensional shaders of AMD (HD 4650 e.g.).

The performance of the GT 320M is nearly on a level of the old GeForce 9600M GT (altough the 9600M GT features 32 shaders). Demanding Direct X 10 games like Crysis or Dirt 2 can only be played in low details fluently. Older games like Left 4 Dead can be played with high details fluently. More game benchmarks can be found below.

The GeForce GT 320M supports PureVideo HD (VP4) to decode HD videos with the GPU. H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 ASP (DivX or xVID) can be fully decoded by the GPU. Futhermore, CUDA and DirectCompute are supported to use the processing power of the graphics card for other applications (with modern drivers). PhysX is currently not supported because of the low shader count.

GeForce GT 300M Series

GeForce GT 335M compare 72 @ 0.45 GHz128 Bit @ 1066 MHz
GeForce GT 330M compare 48 @ 0.58 GHz128 Bit @ 1066 MHz
GeForce GT 325M compare 48 @ 0.45 GHz128 Bit @ 1066 MHz
GeForce GT 320M 24 @ 0.5 GHz128 Bit @ 790 MHz
ArchitectureGT2xx
Pipelines24 - unified
Core Speed500 MHz
Shader Speed1100 MHz
Memory Speed790 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeDDR3
Max. Amount of Memory1024 MB
Shared Memoryno
APIDirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1
technology40 nm
FeaturesPCI-E 2.0, PureVideo HD (VP4), HybridPower
Notebook Sizemedium sized
Date of Announcement21.01.2010

Benchmarks

3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Score Unknown Settings +
Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit +
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

low 1024x768
29.9  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
15.6  fps    + Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
Colin McRae: DIRT 2

Colin McRae: DIRT 2

2009
low 800x600
36  fps    + Compare
med. 1024x768
22  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
lowmed.highultraQHD4K
Battlefield: Bad Company 229.915.6
Colin McRae: DIRT 23622
< 30 fps
< 60 fps
< 120 fps
≥ 120 fps
1
1

2














For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List

Add one or more devices and compare

In the following list you can select (and also search for) devices that should be added to the comparison. You can select more than one device.

restrict list:

show all (including archived), 2024, 2023
v1.26
log 15. 12:33:40

#0 no ids found in url (should be separated by "_") +0s ... 0s

#1 not redirecting to Ajax server +0s ... 0s

#2 did not recreate cache, as it is less than 5 days old! Created at Wed, 13 Mar 2024 05:40:26 +0100 +0.001s ... 0.001s

#3 composed specs +0.04s ... 0.041s

#4 did output specs +0s ... 0.041s

#5 start showIntegratedCPUs +0s ... 0.041s

#6 getting avg benchmarks for device 1629 +0.012s ... 0.053s

#7 got single benchmarks 1629 +0.012s ... 0.065s

#8 got avg benchmarks for devices +0s ... 0.065s

#9 min, max, avg, median took s +0.124s ... 0.189s

#10 before gaming benchmark output +0s ... 0.189s

#11 Got 4 rows for game benchmarks. +0.001s ... 0.19s

#12 composed SQL query for gamebenchmarks +0s ... 0.19s

#13 got data and put it in $dataArray +0.001s ... 0.191s

#14 benchmarks composed for output. +0.041s ... 0.233s

#15 return log +0.044s ... 0.277s

The following gaming benchmarks were conducted by our reader Artem on a Asus K50ID (Pentium Dual-Core T440, 3 GB RAM, 197.16 driver) in 1366x768 pixel and no AA or AF.

Battlefield Bad Company 2
Minimum details: 22-42 fps, avg 29.6 fps -> in a lower resolution playable

C&C 3
High details: 26-31 fps, avg 29.8 fps -> playable

Call of Duty 6 - Modern Warfare 2
High details: 22-47 fps, avg 31.8 fps -> playable

Crysis Warhead
Low details: 14-34 fps, avg 19.9 fps -> in a lower resolution playable

Counterstrike Source
Max details: 35-148 fps, avg 91 fps -> fully playable

Dirt 2
Low details: 15-27 fps / 23 fps -> in a lower resolution playable

Mirrors Edge
Medium details: 23-29 fps, avg 28.8 fps
Minimum details: 27-46 fps, avg 34.9 fps -> fluently playable

NFS Shift
Minimum details: 24-32 fps, avg 28.5 fps -> playable

Battlefield Bad Company 2 - 1366x768: In min. Details keine starken Einbrüche
Battlefield Bad Company 2 - 1366x768: In min. Details keine starken Einbrüche
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - 1366x768: Online nur in min. Details flüssig spielbar
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - 1366x768: Online nur in min. Details flüssig spielbar
Dirt 2 - 1366x768: Nur in min Details knapp spielbar.
Dirt 2 - 1366x768: Nur in min Details knapp spielbar.

Notebook reviews with NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M graphics card

Packard Bell EasyNote TM87-JN-218: Intel Core i3-330M, 15.60", 2.6 kg
  External Review » Packard Bell EasyNote TM87-JN-218

Acer Aspire 5741G-434G64BN: Intel Core i5-430M, 15.60", 2.6 kg
  External Review » Acer Aspire 5741G-434G64BN

Acer Aspire 5741G-434G50MN: Intel Core i5-430M, 15.60", 2.6 kg
  External Review » Acer Aspire 5741G-434G50MN

HP Pavilion dv7-3145ef: Intel Core i5-430M, 17.30", 3.5 kg
  External Review » HP Pavilion dv7-3145ef

Asus K50ID-X1: Intel Pentium Dual Core T4400, 15.60", 2.6 kg
  External Review » Asus K50ID-X1

Please share our article, every link counts!

» Comparison of GPUs
Detailed list of all laptop GPUs sorted by class and performance.

» Benchmark List
Sort and restrict laptop GPUs based on performance in synthetic benchmarks.

» Notebook Gaming List
Playable games for each graphics card and their average FPS results.

Class 0

Arc A380

Class 1

Class 2

Radeon PRO W6600M *

Class 3

UHD Graphics 32EUs
UHD Graphics 750

Class 4

Class 5

* Approximate position of the graphics adapter