Quadro K5100M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Quadro K5100M was NVIDIA's flagship mobile workstation GPU of 2013 — Kepler architecture with 1536 CUDA cores and, remarkably for its year, 8GB of GDDR5. This is a benchmark-only page: no laptop listing in the catalog is matched to this chip, so what follows is the measured record of its 32 games at 1080p on high and where the top of 2013's professional ladder stands today.

Where the Quadro K5100M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 21.4 ranks the K5100M at 199th of 341 — almost exactly the table's midpoint. The neighborhood is another era-collapse: the Arc B390 (21.7) and Radeon Graphics Compute Engine (21.7) above, the GeForce GTX 860M (21.4) alongside, and the Iris Pro P580 (21) and Iris Pro 580 (20.6) below. A 2013 flagship settling level with mid-2010s consumer midrange cards and premium integrated graphics is the standard arc for professional silicon — bought at the top, drifting toward the middle for a decade.

What the chip brings

The flagship positioning showed in every specification: 1536 CUDA cores — four times the entry K1100M of the same generation — with 8GB of GDDR5 (when mainstream consumer cards carried 2GB) and a 100W envelope for the largest mobile workstation chassis. Peak throughput is 2.37 teraflops; PassMark rates it at 3323 and Fire Strike at 4793. The memory capacity was the professional point: datasets and viewports that consumer cards of 2013 simply couldn't hold.

FPS in games at 1080p

For its score band, the K5100M's high-preset table has a strong top end — flagship silicon stays flagship-shaped: F1 2014 and GRID: Autosport both at 119 fps, The Sims 4 at 96, Dirt Rally at 82, Alien: Isolation at 80 and Valorant at 80. The decline is gradual rather than a cliff: DOTA 2 at 60, Battlefield Hardline at 59, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare at 47, Fortnite at 45, Counter-Strike 2 at 40, The Witcher 3 at 25, Far Cry 5 at 24, Cyberpunk 2077 at 16 and the Resident Evil 4 remake at 14 fps. The record carries high-preset data only.

Bottom line

As a 2026 purchase the K5100M is moot — no listings in this catalog carry it, and its host machines (the Precision M6800s and ZBook 17s of 2013–2014 that could feed it 100W) surface with smaller Kepler options instead. The record stands as a benchmark reference: the top of the mobile professional stack in 2013, now performing like a mid-2010s midrange card — a midpoint the same catalog's GTX 860M record marks precisely. For anyone tracking how flagship workstation GPUs age, this is one of the cleanest datapoints available.