GeForce GT 230M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide
GeForce GT 230M — 11 games benchmarked at 1080p, 1 model in the catalog.
GeForce GT 230M — 11 games benchmarked at 1080p , 1 laptop models in the used-laptop catalog . This guide covers what the chip delivers in games, where it sits among mobile GPUs in 2026, and which laptops carry it.
The GeForce GT 230M is a 2009 entry discrete GPU — 48 cores from the era NVIDIA first brought unified shaders to mainstream laptops. This guide covers its 11 recorded game benchmarks at 1080p and its single catalog host.
Where the GT 230M sits in 2026
The composite ranks it #335 of 341 (score 0.5). The neighbors: Mobility HD 5470 (#332, 0.6), Quadro FX 880M (#333, 0.6) and HD 6470M (#334, 0.5) above; the NVS 3100M (#336, 0.5), 8600M GT (#337, 0.4) and HD 6320 (#338, 0.4) below. A tight bottom-tier cluster — five chips within two places of each other, all reading the same table.
What the chip brings
The record lists 48 CUDA cores on a 40nm die, 1GB of GDDR3, a 23W envelope and 0.11 TFLOPS. Public benchmark: PassMark 219. In 2009 this was the " multimedia lite" tier — enough for the era's games at reduced settings, priced for student budgets.
FPS in games at 1080p
At the high preset: legacy ceilings (CS:GO/Overwatch 240, GTA V/PUBG 140), Valorant 27, Dota 2 10, The Witcher 3 6, Forza Horizon 4 4, Counter-Strike 2 2, Fortnite 2, Cyberpunk 2077 1. Identical to the NVS 3100M row-set one place below — the shared baseline of the 2009-11 entry class.
Laptops that carry it
One honest host: the HP Pavilion dv6 (listing dated 2010, $137) — the 15.6-inch entertainment all-rounder that carried this chip as its step-up graphics option. One machine, one chip, one surviving listing.
Bottom line
The GT 230M is a single-specimen museum entry: a 2009 mainstream GPU preserved inside a $137 dv6. Its table answers the gaming question honestly — Dota 2 at low, little else — and its value today is nostalgia, spare-parts duty, and a complete catalog.
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Universal advice for any use case.
- Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
- Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
- Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).
🎮 GeForce GT 230M — game FPS at 1080p
Average FPS per game, high quality preset.
| Game | FPS (1080p) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Overwatch | 240 | ✓ Comfortable |
| PUBG: Battlegrounds | 140 | ✓ Comfortable |
| Valorant | 27 | ✗ Low |
| Dota 2 | 10 | ✗ Low |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 4 | ✗ Low |
| Fortnite | 2 | ✗ Low |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1 | ✗ Low |
| CS:GO | 240 | ✓ Comfortable |
| GTA V | 140 | ✓ Comfortable |
| The Witcher 3 | 6 | ✗ Low |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 2 | ✗ Low |
Laptops with the GeForce GT 230M
1 matched models — newest first. Names link to the full review.
| Model | Year | Class | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pavilion dv6 | 2010 | Laptop | $137 |
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