Quadro P4200: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Quadro P4200 is NVIDIA's 2018 Pascal flagship for 17-inch workstations — 8GB of memory, 2304 CUDA cores, a 100W envelope. This guide covers its 16 benchmarked games at 1080p on the high preset and the single catalog model that carries it.

Where the Quadro P4200 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 54.1 ranks it 107th of 341 — the top third of the table. The neighbors: the Quadro P4200 Max-Q (54.8), Radeon RX 5600M (54.5) and Quadro P3200 Max-Q (54.2) above; the Apple M1 Ultra (54.1), Quadro RTX 3000 Laptop (53.5) and GTX 1650 desktop-class record (53.3) below. Note the curious detail: the Max-Q variant of this very card ranks slightly above it — sample-to-sample unit variance at work, worth remembering when comparing listings.

What the chip brings

Pascal on 16nm: 2304 CUDA cores, 8GB of GDDR5, a 100W envelope, 7.6 teraflops, CUDA support. Public benchmarks: PassMark 10151, compute at 48559 (Vulkan) and 40189 (OpenCL). This was the top professional option of its chassis generation — one rung above the P3200 (53.2) hosted in the same machine elsewhere in this catalog.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: Valorant at 160, Counter-Strike 2 at 130, DOTA 2 at 120, Fortnite at 110, Battlefield 5 and Forza Horizon 4 at 90 each, Far Cry 5 and Forza Horizon 5 at 75 each, The Witcher 3 at 70, the Resident Evil 4 remake at 55. The heavy tier: Cyberpunk 2077 and Metro Exodus at 50 each. A complete 1080p high-preset table with esports at triple-digit headroom.

Laptops that carry it

One listing: the HP ZBook 17 G5 (2018) at $392. Model medians: best-CPU 57.6, gaming index 57, performance index 56.4 — the graphics median equals this chip. The same chassis also carries the P3200 elsewhere in this catalog, making the ZBook 17 G5 a two-page case study: one machine, two GPU rungs, $392 either way. For the 8GB flagship tier at this price, the option row is the whole negotiation.

Bottom line

The P4200 is the peak-value flagship of the used Pascal workstation world: top-third ranking, 8GB of VRAM, a 100-plus-fps esports table and 50-fps Cyberpunk, inside a $392 17-inch flagship chassis. Against its own P3200 sibling the step-up buys memory and frames for the same money — if the listing's GPU row says P4200, take it. Professional certification and gaming competence in one card, at a fifth of its launch price.