NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
The NVidia GeForce GTX 160M is a laptop graphic card, which is produced in 55nm and based on the G94b core. 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.
According to NVidia, the performance of the GTS 160M is at the level of the 8800M GTX and the 9800 GTX (though the reduced amount of Shaders). For current DirectX 10 games like Crysis, World in Conflict, Bioshock or Age of Conan, the performance of this graphic card is sufficient. 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 |
| Series | GeForce GTS 100M |
| 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 |
| Link to Manufacturer Page |
benchmarks
3DMark 2001: - Standard 1024x768
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min: 30011, avg: 30011, max: 30011 Points ... More Details
3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
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min: 29048, avg: 29048, max: 29048 Points ... More Details
3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
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min: 13775, avg: 13775, max: 13775 Points ... More Details
3DMark 06:
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min: 9327, avg: 9327, max: 9327 Points ... More Details
Cinebench R10: - Shading
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min: 3432, avg: 3432, max: 3432 Points ... More Details
3DMark Vantage: - P Result 1280x1024
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min: 3965, avg: 3965, max: 3965 Points ... More Details
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card - Average benchmark values for this graphics cardBased on 6 benchmarks
| 3DMark 05 in comparison | ||
| Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 (min) | 137 | |
| ... | ||
| NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT SLI | 12932 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS | 13125 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS | 13587 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M | 13775 | |
| NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M | 13950 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI | 14111 | |
| NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M | 14224 | |
| ... | ||
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI (max) | 19268 | |
Game Benchmarks
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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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