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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M is a graphics card released on March 3, 2009. It has 64 shading units, 1 GB of GDDR3 memory on a 256-bit bus, 51.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 600 MHz and a 60 W board power rating. It scores 679 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.

N10E-GS1(G94b)

8/10 key specs recorded · 26 facts

Depth: 31 recorded fields

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

64cores

Memory

1 GB

GDDR3 · 256-bit

Boost clock

n/a

600 MHz base

Board power

60 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M scores 679 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 45% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #1,662), measured across 5 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 308.

PassMark G3D Mark

679

Rank #1,662
Faster than 45% of 2,658 GPUs
5 samples

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

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe 2.0 x16

Max memory 1 GB

Core clock 600 MHz

Memory clock 1500 MHz

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

Max TDP 60 W

First benchmarked 2009-07-23

Samples 5

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M states the PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 1 GB of memory, a core clock of 600 MHz, DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2009-07-23. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename N10E-GS1(G94b)

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M uses the N10E-GS1(G94b) graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 64

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 32

Render output units (ROPs) 16

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M has 64 shading units, 32 texture mapping units and 16 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 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 GTS 160M. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M.

Clock speeds

Base clock 600 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M runs at a base clock of 600 MHz.

Memory

Size 1 GB

Type GDDR3

Bus width 256-bit

Bandwidth 51.2 GB/s

The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M is equipped with 1 GB of GDDR3 memory, uses a 256-bit memory bus and delivers 51.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M has a board power rating of 60 W and it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 60 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 PCIe 2.0 x16

Market

Launched March 3, 2009

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series GeForce

The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M was released on March 3, 2009.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 679

PassMark G2D 308

Rank #1,662

Samples 5

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M.