NVIDIA NVS 3100M
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M is a workstation graphics card released on January 7, 2010. It has 16 shading units, 512 MB of GDDR3 memory, a boost clock of 600 MHz and a 14 W board power rating. It scores 125 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 1.2.
Depth: 33 recorded fields, 1 feature, 2 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 6 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M scores 125 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 19.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,332), measured across 1,518 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 32.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA NVS 3100M averages DirectX 9 5 fps and DirectX 10 1 fps, across 1,518 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA NVS 3100M states the PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 512 MB of memory, a core clock of 600 MHz, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2011-05-25. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M uses the GT218M graphics processor.
Shader configuration
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M has 16 shading units, 8 texture mapping units and 4 render output units.
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M 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 NVS 3100M. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA NVS 3100M.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M runs at a base clock of 600 MHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M is equipped with 512 MB of GDDR3 memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M has a board power rating of 14 W and it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M was released on January 7, 2010.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M supports DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 1.2.
Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA NVS 3100M.
Features
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.
Compute and AI
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Supported: CUDA Compute capability 1.2Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Not listed (2)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA NVS 3100M supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M supports CUDA (Compute capability 1.2) under Compute and AI.
Naming and aliases
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA NVS 3100M (Mobile).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA NVS 3100M have?
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M has 512 MB of GDDR3 memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA NVS 3100M use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M has a board power rating of 14 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA NVS 3100M?
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M scores 125 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 19.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #2,332.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA NVS 3100M?
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M has CUDA compute capability 1.2.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA NVS 3100M use?
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA NVS 3100M released?
The NVIDIA NVS 3100M was released on January 7, 2010.