Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q is the efficiency-tuned variant of NVIDIA's 2019 upper-mid workstation GPU — Turing silicon, 8GB of GDDR6, and an 80W envelope that made it the workhorse graphics option of a whole generation of thin professional machines. This guide covers its 32 benchmarked games at 1080p (16 with medium-preset data) and the 59 catalog models matched to it — the largest professional-GPU roster in this catalog.

Where the Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q sits in 2026

A catalog score of 56.6 ranks it 98th of 341 — just inside the top third of the table. Its neighbors: the RTX A3000 (57.9), Apple M2 Ultra (57.6) and RTX A1000 (57.2) above; the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q (56.4), Apple M4 Max (56.3) and GTX 1070 (55.3) below. For an 80W part launched in 2019, keeping company with M-series flagship silicon and consumer cards a class larger is a strong statement about how well this niche was judged.

What the chip brings

This is Turing on the 12nm process: 2560 CUDA cores with the generation's RT and tensor cores (DLSS is flagged), 8GB of GDDR6, and peak throughput of 7.07 teraflops within an 80W envelope — roughly a third of the RTX 5000's power budget for about two-thirds of its ranked performance. The benchmarks frame it: PassMark 12207, Time Spy 6764, Fire Strike 17049. The 8GB buffer was sized for professional viewports rather than maximal texture settings, and it still clears the practical bar for most content work.

FPS in games at 1080p

On the high preset the table is fluent nearly throughout: Valorant at 180 fps, F1 2020 at 171 (207 on medium), Counter-Strike 2 at 160, Dirt Rally 2.0 at 151 (181), F1 2018 at 142 (180), The Witcher 3 at 132, Fortnite at 130 and Rise of the Tomb Raider at 128. The demanding modern tier stays honest rather than heroic: Battlefield V at 110, Forza Horizon 4 at 110, Far Cry 5 at 95 (106 on medium), Forza Horizon 5 at 90, Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 82 (105), Cyberpunk 2077 at 65, Metro Exodus at 65 and the Resident Evil 4 remake at 70. That's a card that plays its whole era at 1080p high without excuses.

Laptops that carry it

Fifty-nine matched models — the widest workstation roster in the catalog, spanning 2023 through current: Dell Precision 5680/7680/7780 and 5690; HP ZBook Fury 16 G10, G11 and the current G1i generation; Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 6 and P16 Gen 3; MSI CreatorPro 16 AI Studio; Dell's Pro Max 16/18 Plus — with visible roster pricing from $1126 to $2340. The fleet medians describe the class: gaming index 86, performance index 76. As with every Max-Q name-match, individual machines vary around these records by implementation.

Bottom line

The Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q may be the best-balanced professional GPU in the used catalog: top-third ranked performance, an 8GB buffer that still handles serious viewport and GPU-render work, DLSS support, and — critically — an 80W envelope that lets it live in genuinely portable machines. With 59 host models trading from the low four figures, it's the practical sweet spot between the entry P620 class and the 230W RTX 5000 flagships. For buyers wanting one machine for professional work and high-settings 1080p gaming, this is the record to shortlist.