Quadro T500: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Quadro T500 (Laptop) is the smallest of NVIDIA's Turing workstation trio — an 18W entry part that found its way into one catalog machine. This guide covers its 13 recorded game benchmarks at 1080p and that single host.

Where the T500 sits in 2026

The composite ranks it #163 of 341 (score 35.2). The neighbors: Quadro M4000M (#160, 36.5), the T550 record (#161, 36.4) and GTX 1050 Max-Q (#162, 35.4) above; the Radeon 740M (#164, 34.4), Quadro P2000 Max-Q (#165, 33.9) and Quadro M2200 (#166, 33.7) below. The T-family ladder shows up inside its own neighborhood — T550 one rung up, and the T600 record twelve places higher.

What the chip brings

The record lists 2GB of GDDR6, a 12nm Turing design and an 18W envelope. Public benchmark: Time Spy 1788 — a sparse record, with no PassMark stored; the game table carries the evidence here. Two gigabytes of memory is the defining constraint of this tier in 2026: decode and desktop work yes, modern textures no.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: legacy ceilings (CS:GO/Overwatch 240, GTA V/PUBG 140), Dota 2 90, Valorant 80, Fortnite 50, Battlefield 5 and Forza Horizon 4 at 35, Far Cry 5 30, The Witcher 3 28, Forza Horizon 5 24, Metro Exodus 16. The ladder below the e-sports pair is honest: playable, then marginal, then not.

Laptops that carry it

One host: the Dell Precision 3560 (2020, $345) — the compact entry workstation of its year. Roster medians give it performance index 60.9 with best CPU score 70: a machine that spent its budget on the processor and took the modest GPU that followed.

Bottom line

The T500 is the bottom rung of the Turing workstation ladder: e-sports and older titles at 1080p, a 2GB memory ceiling, and one $345 host that pairs it with a strong CPU. As a used buy it is an office machine with a games hobby, not the reverse.