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GeForce GT 635M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

GeForce GT 635M — 15 games benchmarked at 1080p, 1 model in the catalog.

GeForce GT 635M — 15 games benchmarked at 1080p , 1 laptop models in the used-laptop catalog . This guide covers what the chip delivers in games, where it sits among mobile GPUs in 2026, and which laptops carry it.

The GeForce GT 635M is a 2012 entry-level discrete GPU — one of the last Fermi-generation parts NVIDIA sold under a 600-series name. This guide covers its 15 recorded game benchmarks at 1080p and the one laptop in the catalog that carries it.

Where the GT 635M sits in 2026

In the catalog's composite ranking of 341 scored chips the GT 635M lands at #301 with a score of 2.7. Its neighborhood is all early-2010s entry material: the Quadro 1000M (#298, 2.8) and Radeon R7 M260 (#300, 2.7) just above, its direct sibling the GT 630M (#302, 2.6) one place below, then the Radeon HD 7670M (#303, 2.5) and NVS 5200M (#304, 2.4). In other words: firmly in the bottom decile, rubbing shoulders with chips a decade and a half old.

What the chip brings

The record lists 144 CUDA cores on a 40nm Fermi 2.0 die, 2GB of DDR3 memory, a 35W envelope and 0.39 TFLOPS of compute. Public benchmarks agree with the era: PassMark 534, Fire Strike 750, OpenCL 2476. This was multimedia-class silicon in 2012 — video decode and desktop work, not gaming.

FPS in games at 1080p

The high-preset table tells the story honestly. The four legacy rows (CS:GO, Overwatch, GTA V, PUBG) sit at their recorded ceilings of 240 and 140 — read those as "runs at the cap", not as precision numbers. Everything modern collapses fast: Valorant 30, Dota 2 16, Forza Horizon 4 and The Witcher 3 at 7, Counter-Strike 2 at 4, Fortnite 4, Cyberpunk 2077 3, and the Far Cry 5 / Forza Horizon 5 / Metro Exodus trio at 2. A 2012 entry GPU simply does not speak the language of 2018-and-later engines.

Laptops that carry it

Exactly one catalog listing matches this chip: a Lenovo G580 (2013) at $108 — a 15-inch budget all-rounder of its day. There is no fleet to speak of; the GT 635M shows up in the data as a single preserved specimen.

Bottom line

If you encounter a GT 635M laptop today, treat it as a light-duty machine: older e-sports titles at reduced settings, video playback, office work. Anything from the modern AAA generation is measured in single-digit frame rates at 1080p high — the table above says so without embellishment.

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GeForce GT 635M at a glance

Catalog score
2.7
#301 of 341 mobile GPUs
Games @ 1080p
15
Laptops
1
models in the catalog
Released
2012
VRAM
2 GB DDR3
Shader cores
144
TDP
35 W
Process
40 nm
FP32
0.4 TFLOPS
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
PassMark: 534 3DMark Fire Strike: 750 GeekBench OpenCL: 2,476
CUDA

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).

🎮 GeForce GT 635M — game FPS at 1080p

Average FPS per game, high quality preset.

Game FPS (1080p) Verdict
Overwatch 240 ✓ Comfortable
PUBG: Battlegrounds 140 ✓ Comfortable
Valorant 30 ⚠ Playable
Dota 2 16 ✗ Low
Forza Horizon 4 7 ✗ Low
Fortnite 4 ✗ Low
Cyberpunk 2077 3 ✗ Low
Far Cry 5 2 ✗ Low
Forza Horizon 5 2 ✗ Low
Metro Exodus 2 ✗ Low
Battlefield 5 1 ✗ Low
CS:GO 240 ✓ Comfortable
GTA V 140 ✓ Comfortable
The Witcher 3 7 ✗ Low
Counter-Strike 2 4 ✗ Low
15 benchmarked games — full spec page. Verdicts: ✓ comfortable (≥60 FPS), ⚠ playable (30–59), ✗ low (<30). "~" marks estimated values.

Laptops with the GeForce GT 635M

1 matched models — newest first. Names link to the full review.

Model Year Class Price
G580 2013 Laptop $108

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