GeForce 830M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce 830M is NVIDIA's entry-level Maxwell discrete GPU from 2014 — the rung below the better-known 840M, sold as a modest step up from integrated graphics in mainstream laptops. This guide covers its 40 benchmarked games at 1080p on the high preset and the 2 catalog listings matched to it.

Where the GeForce 830M sits in 2026

With a catalog score of 3.4, the 830M ranks 287th of 341 — the bottom sixth of the table. Its neighbors are a museum aisle: the generic Iris record (3.8) and Radeon 550X (3.6) above, the UHD Graphics 610, Radeon Vega 3 and Quadro 3000M (all 3.4) alongside, and the Radeon R5 M430 (3.2) below. Every one of those is either ancient discrete silicon or a low-tier integrated GPU — which tells you exactly what the 830M's modern standing is: it performs like the weakest integrated graphics of recent years.

What the chip brings

This is first-generation Maxwell (the GM108 chip) on the 28nm process: 256 shader cores, 2GB of DDR3 memory on a 64-bit bus feeding just 14GB/s of bandwidth, a boost clock of 1150MHz and a 33W envelope. Peak throughput is 0.59 teraflops. Maxwell's efficiency gains were real — this chip ran cool and quiet in thin machines — but the DDR3 memory was a severe bottleneck even in 2014. PassMark rates it at 1001.

FPS in games at 1080p

The 830M's table has a hard cliff after its era. Games from 2014 and earlier hold up on high: F1 2014 at 53 fps, Valorant at 40, GRID: Autosport at 27, The Sims 4 at 27, Dirt Rally at 26 and DOTA 2 at 24. Everything modern collapses: Fortnite at 12, Forza Horizon 4 at 12, The Witcher 3 at 7, Counter-Strike 2 at 6, Cyberpunk 2077 at 5, and the Resident Evil 4 remake at 2 fps. There is no medium-preset rescue hatch — the record carries high-preset numbers only.

Laptops that carry it

Two listings, both 2015 Dell business machines: the Latitude E5450 at $136 and the Latitude E5550 at $245. These were corporate workhorses — well-built 14/15-inch machines where the 830M was a checkbox option for extra display outputs and light 3D acceleration. Note that the catalog medians for these models (a best-GPU score of 45.9) reflect their stronger configuration options, not this chip; the 830M-equipped variants sit at the bottom of that range.

Bottom line

Ten-plus years on, the GeForce 830M is functionally a display adapter. The Latitude chassis it lives in are still genuinely usable office machines — good keyboards, serviceable screens, easy repairs — and at $136–245 they're priced as such. Buy one for the keyboard and the price, run older or light titles if you like, but treat the GPU as invisible on the spec sheet. Anything made in the last few years with ordinary integrated graphics will out-game it.