GeForce GT 630M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce GT 630M is a 2012 entry-level discrete GPU built on NVIDIA's Fermi architecture — 40nm silicon that was already a generation behind when it shipped. This guide covers its 32 benchmarked games at 1080p on high and the single catalog listing matched to it.

Where the GeForce GT 630M sits in 2026

With a catalog score of 2.6, the GT 630M ranks 302nd of 341 — among the bottom twelve records in the table. Its neighbors are the OEM filler class of the early 2010s: the Radeon R5 M335 and R7 M260 (2.7) above, the GeForce GT 635M (2.7) alongside, and the Radeon HD 7670M (2.5), NVS 5200M (2.4) and HD 6770M (2.3) below. A 40nm process node places this chip among the oldest silicon in the entire catalog.

What the chip brings

The GT 630M is Fermi at its most minimal: 96 shader cores — one of the smallest core counts in the catalog — with 1GB of DDR3 or GDDR5 memory, a 33W envelope, and peak throughput of just 0.25 teraflops. PassMark rates it at 515 and Fire Strike at 719. The 96-core configuration is the number that explains everything: this was a display-adapter-grade part marketed as a graphics upgrade, in an era when that marketing worked.

FPS in games at 1080p

The high-preset table tells the story of a chip operating at the floor of playability in its own launch year: F1 2014 and Valorant both at 30 fps, DOTA 2 at 23, Rocket League at 19 (29 on medium), GRID: Autosport at 19, Farming Simulator 17 at 18, and Dirt Rally, Metal Gear Solid V and World of Warships at 15. Everything from the mid-2010s onward is unplayable by any standard: Rainbow Six Siege at 10, The Witcher 3 at 7, Forza Horizon 4 at 7, Counter-Strike 2 at 3, Fortnite at 3, Cyberpunk 2077 at 2 and Forza Horizon 5 at 1 fps.

Laptops that carry it

One listing: Lenovo's ThinkPad E530, a 2012 15-inch business laptop at $157. That's the GT 630M's natural habitat — an optional graphics line-item in a corporate fleet machine, providing a second display output and GPU-accelerated Office rendering. The machine's catalog profile (performance index 16, gaming index 11) describes a budget business computer of its era, graphics and all.

Bottom line

The GT 630M is a museum piece: 40nm Fermi silicon with 96 cores, sold as a feature, delivering display-adapter performance. The ThinkPad E530 that carries it is a $157 business machine from 2012 — buyable for parts, nostalgia or very light duty, but nothing more. For anyone keeping score of how far mobile graphics have come, this chip's table is one of the clearest baselines in the catalog.