Quadro NVS 160M: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro NVS 160M sales 15 August 2008. This is a Tesla architecture notebook card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 11.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-I interface. Power consumption is at 12 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro NVS 160M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G98 | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 15 August 2008 (16 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro NVS 160M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro NVS 160M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 8 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 580 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Number of transistors | 210 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 12 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 4.640 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.0232 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro NVS 160M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | MXM-I |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro NVS 160M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 700 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 11.2 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro NVS 160M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Quadro NVS 160M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro NVS 160M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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