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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M is a workstation graphics card released on August 15, 2008. It has 8 shading units, 256 MB of GDDR3 memory, a boost clock of 580 MHz and a 12 W board power rating. It scores 146 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.

G98MWorkstation

6/10 key specs recorded · 22 facts

Depth: 29 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: 6 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

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

Shading units

8cores

Memory

256 MB

GDDR3

Boost clock

n/a

580 MHz base

Board power

12 W

Performance

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M scores 146 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 21.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,279), measured across 411 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 24.

PassMark G3D Mark

146

Rank #2,279
Faster than 21.6% of 2,658 GPUs
411 samples

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

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 2 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 1.9% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 4 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 32.1% 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 Quadro NVS 160M averages DirectX 9 2 fps and DirectX 10 4 fps, across 411 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Workstation

Bus interface PCIe 2.0 x16

Max memory 256 MB

Core clock 580 MHz

Memory clock 1400 MHz

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

Max TDP 12 W

First benchmarked 2009-04-07

Samples 411

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M states the PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 256 MB of memory, a core clock of 580 MHz, DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2009-04-07. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename G98M

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M uses the G98M graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 8

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) Not recorded

Render output units (ROPs) Not recorded

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M has 8 shading units.

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 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 Quadro NVS 160M. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M.

Clock speeds

Base clock 580 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M runs at a base clock of 580 MHz.

Memory

Size 256 MB

Type GDDR3

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M is equipped with 256 MB of GDDR3 memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M has a board power rating of 12 W and it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 12 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 August 15, 2008

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Workstation

Series Quadro

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M was released on August 15, 2008.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 146

PassMark G2D 24

Rank #2,279

Samples 411

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

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

Naming and aliases

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M (Prerelease - WDDM 1.1) and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M (Mobile).

Other names (PassMark) NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M (Prerelease - WDDM 1.1); NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M (Mobile)