Quadro M3000M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The NVIDIA Quadro M3000M is the middle rung of the 2015 Maxwell workstation stack — a 1024-core professional card that brought GM204-class throughput to 17-inch mobile workstations. This guide covers its 28 benchmarked games at 1080p on high and the two catalog machines that carry it.

Where the Quadro M3000M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 31.7 ranks it 170th of 341 — almost exactly the middle of the field. The neighborhood is tightly packed and era-mixed: the Radeon 660M (32.9), Quadro P5200 Max-Q (31.9) and Quadro P1000 (31.8) just above; the GeForce GTX 1050 (31.3), Iris Xe MAX (31.3) and GeForce MX350 (30.8) just below. Trading places with the GTX 1050 is the honest summary: a decade-old professional mid-tier now performs like a budget consumer card of the late 2010s.

What the chip brings

Maxwell 2.0 architecture on the 28nm process: 1024 CUDA cores rated at 2.15 teraflops, 4GB of GDDR5 memory, a 75W envelope and CUDA support flagged — the last one still mattering for the viewport work these cards were bought for. Public benchmarks: PassMark 5543, Fire Strike 6537, GeekBench Vulkan 16744 and OpenCL 16526. The certified-driver era of ISV applications is long over for this generation, but raw compute remains serviceable for older toolsets.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset the older block is strong: GRID Autosport at 151 fps, F1 2014 at 122, Valorant at 110, Dirt Rally 90, DOTA 2 85, Rainbow Six Siege 77, Fortnite 75, Counter-Strike 2 70 and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor 68 — plus the capped quartet at its 240/140 ceilings. The modern heavyweights arrive at 2015-typical levels: Forza Horizon 4 at 55, The Witcher 3 at 42, Forza Horizon 5 and Far Cry 5 at 40, Cyberpunk 2077, the Resident Evil 4 remake and Metro Exodus at 27. The pattern is a card that still clears 1080p high in its contemporary titles and drops to medium-or-lower in current ones.

Laptops that carry it

Two catalog listings match: the Dell Precision 7710 (2015) at $333 and the HP ZBook 17 G3 (2015) at $321 — both 17-inch flagship workstations of their year. The fleet medians (best-GPU 35.8, gaming index 42, USComp score 50.5, best-CPU 47.8) describe exactly what these machines were: CPU-forward platforms where graphics served the viewport, not the frame rate.

Bottom line

For a used buyer in 2026 the M3000M is a value pickup inside $320-330 17-inch workstations — provided the use case is older CAD sessions, CUDA compute for legacy tools, or 1080p gaming at the settings of the card's era. Its game table is genuinely playable across a decade of titles, and its two host machines are among the better-built used workstations on the market. What it isn't: a modern gaming option or a current-ISV card. Judge it as ten-year-old professional hardware that still games respectably, and the price makes sense.