Quadro FX 2800M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Quadro FX 2800M is a 2009 workstation GPU — 65nm silicon from the era when mobile workstations doubled as space heaters. This guide covers its 14 recorded game benchmarks at 1080p and the single catalog machine that carries it.

Where the FX 2800M sits in 2026

The composite ranks it #324 of 341 (score 1.0). The neighbors: HD 8280 (#321, 1.3), UHD Graphics 615 (#322, 1.3) and HD 7650M (#323, 1.0) above; the HD 8210 (#325, 1.0), HD 6490M (#326, 0.9) and HD 7520G (#327, 0.8) below. Seventeen places from the bottom — kept off the very last rows by its Fire Strike-era credentials, not by any modern capability.

What the chip brings

The record lists 96 CUDA cores on a 65nm Tesla die, 1GB of GDDR3, a 75W envelope and 0.29 TFLOPS. Public benchmark: PassMark 414. That 65nm process and 75W draw for 96 cores is the honest pre-history of efficiency — a modern chip does several times the work at a fraction of the power.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: legacy rows at their ceilings (CS:GO/Overwatch 240, GTA V/PUBG 140), Valorant 30, Dota 2 14, Forza Horizon 4 and The Witcher 3 at 6, Counter-Strike 2 3, Cyberpunk 2077 2, and Far Cry 5 / Fortnite / Forza Horizon 5 / Metro Exodus at 1. A workstation card measured in games it was never asked to play — the table reads as a museum plaque.

Laptops that carry it

One host: the HP EliteBook 8740w (listing dated 2010, $194) — the 17-inch dream workstation of its year, built like a flight case. The chip outlived its relevance; the chassis, by reputation, outlived the chip.

Bottom line

The FX 2800M is a benchmark-only footnote with one historic host attached: a 2009 OpenGL accelerator whose game table exists purely for the record. Anyone buying the 8740w today is buying the tank-like chassis and the keyboard — and this table says so.