Quadro M5000M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The NVIDIA Quadro M5000M is the flagship of the 2015 Maxwell workstation generation — 1536 cores and 8GB of GDDR5, the top GPU option in that year's 17-inch professional platforms. This guide covers its 23 benchmarked games at 1080p on high and the single catalog machine that carries it.

Where the Quadro M5000M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 40 ranks it 155th of 341 — just below the field's midpoint. The neighbors: the GeForce RTX 5050 (41.3), Apple M2 (41.1) and GTX 1050 Ti (40.8) above; the Quadro P2000 (39.2), GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q (39) and Radeon 760M (37.9) below. The 2015 flagship now scores level with the GTX 1050 Ti — the consumer entry card of just two years later — which is how a decade of mid-tier progress has repositioned it.

What the chip brings

Maxwell 2.0 architecture on 28nm: 1536 CUDA cores rated at 3 teraflops, 8GB of GDDR5, a 100W envelope and CUDA flagged. Public benchmarks: PassMark 7067, Fire Strike 9228, GeekBench Vulkan 24875 and OpenCL 22889. The 8GB buffer was the flagship feature — enough for serious viewport datasets in 2015 and still useful for older toolchains today.

FPS in games at 1080p

The high-preset table carries the flagship signature of its era: GRID Autosport at 155 fps, Valorant 130, Dirt Rally 126, F1 2014 122, DOTA 2 100, Counter-Strike 2 95, Fortnite 90, Shadow of Mordor 87, Anno 2205 82 — capped quartet at its ceilings. The modern block: Forza Horizon 4 at 70, The Witcher 3 67, Far Cry 5 55, Forza Horizon 5 50, then the heavy trio — Cyberpunk 2077, Resident Evil 4 remake, Metro Exodus — all at 35 on high. Solid 1080p gaming with settings discipline on the newest titles.

Laptops that carry it

One catalog listing matches: the Dell Precision 7710 (2015) at $333 — the same 17-inch flagship that hosts the M3000M two rungs down this ladder. The listing's medians (best-GPU 40 at the chip's own level, gaming index 45, USComp score 52) describe a balanced professional platform: CPU-forward, with the top GPU option making it unusually game-capable for a work machine of its year.

Bottom line

The M5000M is the strongest 2015 workstation GPU this catalog tracks, and inside a $333 Precision 7710 it makes that platform the gaming-capable variant of its family — the ladder logic (M1000M, M2000M, M3000M, M5000M all in these pages) tops out here. For buyers wanting maximum used-workstation performance per dollar, this record and its host machine are a legitimate answer: 8GB of VRAM, a decade-deep playable library, and honest medium-settings behavior in current heavy titles. As always with this era: the professional certifications have expired, but the hardware keeps working.