Quadro K1100M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Quadro K1100M is NVIDIA's 2013 entry-level mobile workstation GPU — Kepler architecture, certified drivers, and a distinction this catalog can state precisely: of 341 scored chips, it ranks 341st. This guide covers its 32 benchmarked games at 1080p on high, the 8 workstation models that carried it, and why the last-place score deserves context.

Where the Quadro K1100M sits in 2026

The composite catalog score of 0.2 puts the K1100M at the very bottom of the ranked table — 341st of 341, below even the GeForce 8400M GS (0.2) and Mobility Radeon HD 4530 (0.4) alongside it. That placement deserves honest framing: the composite score weighs the full modern benchmark suite, where a 2013 entry card with no modern-game measurements lands at effectively zero. The game table below tells a more nuanced story — this was never a fast chip, but it was a real one, and its numbers in its own era's titles are usable.

What the chip brings

The K1100M is a GK107-based Kepler design on the 28nm process: 384 CUDA cores, 2GB of proper GDDR5 on a 128-bit bus (44GB/s — respectable for the class), a modest 706MHz core clock and a 45W envelope. Peak throughput is 0.54 teraflops; PassMark rates it at 1087. The Kepler generation supported CUDA and certified professional applications of its day, which was the actual selling point — an affordable ISV-validated option for machines that would never carry a K5100M.

FPS in games at 1080p

On the high preset, the K1100M's era-appropriate band is real if modest: F1 2014 at 55 fps, Valorant at 40, The Sims 4 at 36, GRID: Autosport at 35, Alien: Isolation at 25, DOTA 2 at 24 and Dirt Rally at 23. The mid-2010s middle drops to the teens (Battlefield Hardline 17, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 15), and everything modern is a slideshow: Fortnite and Forza Horizon 4 at 12, Counter-Strike 2 at 8, The Witcher 3 at 7, Cyberpunk 2077 at 5, and the Resident Evil 4 remake at 3 fps.

Laptops that carry it

Eight workstation listings spanning 2012–2014 and $131–566: Dell's Precision M4700 ($131), M4800 ($221) and M3800 ($305); HP's ZBook 15 ($203) and ZBook 17 G2 ($228); Lenovo's ThinkPad W540 ($264) and W541 ($251); plus a 2014-tagged Precision 7550 listing at $566. These were the workhorse professional chassis of the early 2010s, typically paired with quad-core i7s — the K1100M being their affordable graphics option rather than their defining feature.

Bottom line

Read the last-place score for what it is — a statement about the modern benchmark suite, not a claim that this chip was always worthless. As a 2026 purchase, the K1100M machines are $130–260 professional chassis that still make decent general-purpose laptops, and the certified-driver capability that justified the chip has largely lapsed with the software of that era. Buy one for the build quality at the price; treat the GPU as a display adapter with a distinguished badge.