Quadro M4000M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Quadro M4000M is the upper-middle rung of NVIDIA's Maxwell professional ladder, benchmarked across 17 games at 1080p on the high preset, with two workstation models in the catalog. This guide covers the GM204-powered pro card that still games honestly.

Where the Quadro M4000M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 36.5 ranks it 160th of 341 — around the table's midpoint. The neighbors are a healthy mix: the GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q (39), Radeon 760M (37.9) and Radeon 8060S (37.9) above; the T550 Laptop (36.4), GTX 1050 Max-Q (35.4) and Quadro T500 (35.2) below. A 2015 workstation card keeping pace with a modern AMD integrated GPU is a respectable showing — Maxwell 2.0 aged well.

What the chip brings

This is the same GM204 silicon as the GeForce GTX 970M, professional variant: 1280 CUDA cores at up to 1013MHz, 4GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus with 160GB/s of bandwidth, a 100W envelope and 2.5 teraflops peak. PassMark records 6080, Fire Strike 7723, with compute at 20971 (Vulkan) and 20015 (OpenCL). Within the M-ladder it sits between the M3000M (31.7) and the flagship M5000M (40) — the middle of a three-step staircase on the same chassis generation.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset the table is solidly mid-range: Valorant at 120, DOTA 2 at 90, Counter-Strike 2 at 80, Fortnite at 80, Battlefield 5 and Forza Horizon 4 at 60 each, Rise of the Tomb Raider at 55, Far Cry 5 and Forza Horizon 5 at 45 each. The heavy tier stays playable: The Witcher 3 at 35, Cyberpunk 2077, Metro Exodus and the Resident Evil 4 remake at 30 each. This is a chip that still clears 1080p high in most of the catalog's game list.

Laptops that carry it

Two listings carry the M4000M, both Dell Precision 17-inch flagships: the 7720 (2016) at $390 and the 7710 (2015) at $333. The fleet medians — best-CPU score 48.6, gaming index 62.5, mobility index 8.5 — describe big, heavy professional platforms. The same chassis family hosted the M3000M and M5000M, so shoppers cross-shopping these Precisions should read the GPU row carefully: same machine, different rungs.

Bottom line

The M4000M is one of the better value propositions in used workstations: GTX 970M-class gaming performance with certified drivers, inside $333-390 chassis that were $3000-plus machines new. The game table holds up at 1080p high across most titles, and the ranking — level with modern mid-tier integrated graphics — is strong for a decade-old card. For a budget all-rounder workstation, this rung of the M-ladder is the sweet spot.