Quadro 1000M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Quadro 1000M is NVIDIA's 2011 Fermi-era entry professional chip — and its roster in this catalog is a textbook name-match artifact worth understanding before the numbers. 15 games are benchmarked at 1080p, and seven catalog models match its name.

Where the Quadro 1000M sits in 2026

The composite score of 2.8 ranks #298 of 341 — among the R5 M330 (3.0), R7 M265 (2.9) and HD 8770M record (2.8) above, and the R5 M335 (2.7) and R7 M260 (2.7) below. Bottom-decile company for a 2011 entry pro part, exactly as expected.

What the chip brings

The record lists 2 GB of DDR3, 96 cores, a 45 W envelope, a 40 nm Fermi process and 0.27 TFLOPS. Public entries: PassMark 553 and GeekBench OpenCL 2,138 — display-and-desktop figures with a CUDA badge.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: legacy titles at 140–240; Valorant at 30, Dota 2 at 16, Forza Horizon 4 at 8, The Witcher 3 at 7, Counter-Strike 2 and Fortnite at 4, Cyberpunk 2077 at 3, Far Cry 5, Forza Horizon 5 and Metro Exodus at 2. Light legacy play only.

Laptops that carry it — or the name

Of the seven roster entries, six are 2015–2016 machines (HP ZBook 15 G3, ZBook Studio G3, ZBook 17 G3, Dell Precision 5510 and 7510, Lenovo ThinkPad P50) and one is era-consistent: the HP EliteBook 8560w (2011, $184). The 2015–2016 chassis shipped the later M1000M-class parts — the "1000M" string sits inside "M1000M" — so those rows are name-match artifacts of the same substring effect documented on the Quadro 4000M page. The genuine 1000M host is the 8560w.

Bottom line

This page documents the entry rung of Fermi professional graphics, ranked #298 with a table to match. Its roster lesson travels further than its benchmarks: substring name-matching pulls modern chassis into old-chip rosters, and the "carry it — or the name" framing is how this catalog handles it. Buyers of the 2015+ machines listed here are getting much better GPUs than this record describes — check the M1000M-class rows on those listings.