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NVIDIA GeForce 320M

The NVIDIA GeForce 320M is a graphics card released on April 1, 2010. It has 48 shading units, 256 MB of DDR3 memory on a 128-bit bus, 17.1 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 450 MHz and a 20 W board power rating. It scores 190 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3.

MCP89

8/10 key specs recorded · 27 facts

Depth: 33 recorded fields, 2 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 8 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

48cores

Memory

256 MB

DDR3 · 128-bit

Boost clock

n/a

450 MHz base

Board power

20 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce 320M scores 190 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 24.1% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,214), measured across 126 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 46.

PassMark G3D Mark

190

Rank #2,214
Faster than 24.1% of 2,658 GPUs
126 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 7 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 11.6% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 1 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 0% of 1,602 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce 320M averages DirectX 9 7 fps and DirectX 10 1 fps, across 126 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface Integrated,PCIe 2.0 x16

Max memory 256 MB

Core clock 450 MHz

Memory clock 1066 MHz

DirectX 10.1

OpenGL 3.3

Max TDP 20 W

First benchmarked 2011-11-10

Samples 126

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce 320M states the Integrated,PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 256 MB of memory, a core clock of 450 MHz, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2011-11-10. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename MCP89

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce 320M uses the MCP89 graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 48

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 16

Render output units (ROPs) 8

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce 320M has 48 shading units, 16 texture mapping units and 8 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce 320M does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce 320M. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce 320M.

Clock speeds

Base clock 450 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce 320M runs at a base clock of 450 MHz.

Memory

Size 256 MB

Type DDR3

Bus width 128-bit

Bandwidth 17.1 GB/s

The NVIDIA GeForce 320M is equipped with 256 MB of DDR3 memory, uses a 128-bit memory bus and delivers 17.1 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce 320M has a board power rating of 20 W and it connects over Integrated,PCIe 2.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 20 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface Integrated,PCIe 2.0 x16

Market

Launched April 1, 2010

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series GeForce

The NVIDIA GeForce 320M was released on April 1, 2010.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 190

PassMark G2D 46

Rank #2,214

Samples 126

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce 320M supports DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3.

DirectX 10.1

OpenGL 3.3

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA GeForce 320M. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA GeForce 320M. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce 320M.