NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 160M is a laptop graphics card, which is basically a GeForce 9800M GTS (G94b core) produced in 55nm. Due to the smaller fabrication, the power consumption is reduced to the level of the 9800M GS (60 Watt TDP) and therefore the 160M can also be used for 15" laptops.
As all cards with DirectX 10 capabilities, the GeForce GTX 160M renders the 3D images using "Unified Shaders". There don't exist any more dedicated pixel- and vertex shaders but 64 so called stream processors make the graphic work (which has been done by pixel and vertex shaders in former days). Furthermore, the shader units are higher clocked than the chip and only 1-dimensional (as a difference to the ATI HD 4000 series).
As the GTX 160M is just a die shrink, the performance is compareable to the GeForce 9800M GTS. For DirectX 10 games in 2009 like Crysis, World in Conflict, Bioshock or Age of Conan, the performance of this graphic card is sufficient (but not for high details in Crysis - see below). The memory equipment is up to 1024 MB GDDR3.
An advantage of the GeForce GTS 100M series is the integrated PureVideo HD video processor. It is able to help with the decoding of H.264-, VC-1-, MPEG2- and WMV9 video material in HD quality and therefore eases the CPU.
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 to combine the integrated GPU with the graphic card.
The power consumption of up to 60 Watts (of the whole board) allows the use of the card also in 15" laptops. For example, MSI offered a light 2.8 kg 15" laptop (GT627) with 9800M GS (same power consumption).
Compared with Desktop graphic cards, the performance is about at the level of the GeForce 8800 GT (with a somewhat higher memory clock than the mobile version).
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA |
| GeForce GTS 100M Series | GeForce GTS 160M 64@600MHz GeForce GTS 150M 64@400MHz |
| Codename | N10E-GS1 |
| Pipelines | 64 - unified |
| Core Speed * | 600 MHz |
| Shader Speed * | 1500 MHz |
| Memory Speed * | 800 MHz |
| Memory Bus Width | 256 Bit |
| Memory Type | GDDR3 |
| Max. Amount of Memory | 1024 MB |
| Shared Memory | no |
| DirectX | DirectX 10, Shader 4.0 |
| Transistors | 504 Million |
| technology | 55 nm |
| Features | PureVideo HD, HybridPower, |
| Notebook Size | large |
| Date of Announcement | 02.03.2009 |
| Information | MXM 3 |
Benchmarks

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| GT628 | Q9000@2.1 | 4096 MB | 600 / 800MHz | 1024MB Shadertakt: 1500 MHz 179.65 | 30011 |





















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| GT628 | Q9000@2.1 | 4096 MB | 600 / 800MHz | 1024MB Shadertakt: 1500 MHz 179.65 | 3432 |

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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 detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 @2.1GHz
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 @2.1GHz
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 @2.1GHz
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 @2.1GHz
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 @2.1GHz
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 @2.1GHz
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 @2.1GHz
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 @2.1GHz
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 @2.1GHz
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Notebook reviews with NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M graphics card
MSI GT628 (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000, 15.4")
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MSI GT628Q (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000, 15.4")
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