Quadro K3100M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Quadro K3100M is NVIDIA's mid-range mobile workstation GPU from 2013 — Kepler architecture with a 4GB GDDR5 buffer, aimed at the big 17-inch professional chassis of the early 2010s. This guide covers its 32 benchmarked games at 1080p on high and the 2 catalog listings matched to it.

Where the Quadro K3100M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 7.3 ranks the K3100M at 260th of 341 — the bottom quarter of the table. Its neighbors: the Radeon 520 (7.9), Iris Pro Graphics 5200 (7.7) and GeForce MX110 (7.4) above, with the Iris Graphics 6100 (6.9), UHD Graphics 620 (6.8) and Quadro M500M (6.8) below. Kept company by integrated graphics and entry cards is where decade-old midrange professional silicon ends up — though it's worth noting this record lands far above its entry-level Kepler sibling, the K1100M, whose score sits at the very bottom of the same table.

What the chip brings

The K3100M pairs 768 CUDA cores with 4GB of GDDR5 and a 75W envelope on the 28nm process — double the shader count and memory of the entry K1100M, in the same architecture. Peak throughput is 1.08 teraflops, with PassMark at 2312 and Fire Strike at 2797: roughly double the entry card across the board. In 2013 that bought comfortable OpenGL viewport work in SolidWorks- and Maya-class applications; today it buys a well-built used machine with modest graphics.

FPS in games at 1080p

For a bottom-quarter chip, the K3100M's table has a surprisingly sturdy top end — the benefit of that GDDR5 buffer and doubled shader count in games of its era: F1 2014 at 108 fps, GRID: Autosport at 70, The Sims 4 and Valorant both at 65, Alien: Isolation at 48, Dirt Rally and DOTA 2 at 45. The cliff arrives with the mid-2010s: Fortnite at 30, Counter-Strike 2 at 24, Forza Horizon 4 at 24, Far Cry 5 at 16, The Witcher 3 at 14, Cyberpunk 2077 at 10 and the Resident Evil 4 remake at 9 fps.

Laptops that carry it

Two listings, both large workstation chassis: Dell's Precision M6800 (2014, 17-inch, $352) and HP's ZBook 17 G1 (2013, $266). These were tank-class machines — quad-core CPUs, big displays, ISV certifications — and they remain among the most build-quality-per-dollar options in the used catalog. The roster medians (gaming index 27, portability 5.8) describe them accurately: capable but heavy.

Bottom line

The K3100M is the sensible middle of an old professional lineup: enough GDDR5 and shader throughput to game credibly at 1080p in titles through the mid-2010s, and a certified pedigree that has aged into "free bonus" territory. In 2026 the reason to buy its host machines is the chassis — a $266–352 17-inch workstation with a quad-core CPU is still a genuine workhorse — with the GPU as a capable-enough side benefit. Modern gaming remains out of scope.