Quadro M500M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide
Quadro M500M — 23 games benchmarked at 1080p, 1 model in the catalog.
Quadro M500M — 23 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 NVIDIA Quadro M500M is the entry rung of the 2016 Maxwell workstation line — a 384-core chip with slow GDDR3 memory, built to put a professional badge on affordable work laptops. This guide covers its 23 benchmarked games at 1080p on high and the single catalog listing matched to it.
Where the Quadro M500M sits in 2026
A catalog score of 6.8 ranks it 263rd of 341 — the bottom quarter. The neighbors: the Quadro K3100M (7.3), Iris Graphics 6100 (6.9) and UHD Graphics 620 (6.8) above; the UHD Graphics P630 (6.6), Iris Pro (6.6) and Radeon HD 8790M (6.5) below. Sitting level with basic integrated graphics of several generations is the placement: the professional badge never implied performance at this rung.
What the chip brings
Maxwell architecture on 28nm: 384 CUDA cores rated at 0.86 teraflops, 2GB of GDDR3 memory — the slow variant, a clear cost-cut tell — inside a 30W envelope, with CUDA flagged. Public benchmarks: PassMark 1176, Fire Strike 1595, GeekBench Vulkan 5222 and OpenCL 5981. Everything about the specification says "efficiency and certification, not throughput".
FPS in games at 1080p
The table is short-lived below the capped quartet's ceilings: Valorant at 45 fps, DOTA 2 27, Dirt Rally 20, Rainbow Six Siege 19, Just Cause 3 16, Star Wars Battlefront 15, Fortnite and Forza Horizon 4 at 14, Batman: Arkham Knight and Battlefield 5 at 10. The modern block effectively closes the page: Forza Horizon 5 7, Cyberpunk 2077 6, Counter-Strike 2 9, The Witcher 3 10, Far Cry 5 8, Resident Evil 4 remake 3, Metro Exodus 5. Older light titles at low settings are the entire envelope.
Laptops that carry it
One catalog listing matches: the Lenovo ThinkPad P50s (2015) at $324 — the thin-and-light sibling of the P50 workstation, carrying the entry professional GPU of its year. The listing's medians (best-GPU 6.8 pinned to the chip, gaming index 14, USComp score 28) describe an office machine with a professional sticker rather than a performance platform.
Bottom line
The M500M is the professional line's equivalent of a badge-engineered consumer chip: GDDR3 memory, 384 cores and a 30W budget added up to certification and multi-monitor stability, not 3D throughput. In 2026 its game table is a low-settings footnote — Valorant at 45 is the ceiling of what "playable" means here. The host P50s at $324 can still serve as a well-built business laptop, but the graphics contribute approximately nothing to that case. Judge the machine on its keyboard and screen; treat this GPU as included at no charge.
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🤔 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).
🎮 Quadro M500M — game FPS at 1080p
Average FPS per game, high quality preset.
| Game | FPS (1080p) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Overwatch | 240 | ✓ Comfortable |
| PUBG: Battlegrounds | 140 | ✓ Comfortable |
| Valorant | 45 | ⚠ Playable |
| Dota 2 | 27 | ✗ Low |
| Rainbow Six Siege | 19 | ✗ Low |
| Fortnite | 14 | ✗ Low |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 14 | ✗ Low |
| Batman: Arkham Knight | 10 | ✗ Low |
| Battlefield 5 | 10 | ✗ Low |
| Rise of the Tomb Raider | 10 | ✗ Low |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10 | ✗ Low |
| Far Cry 5 | 8 | ✗ Low |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 7 | ✗ Low |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6 | ✗ Low |
| Metro Exodus | 5 | ✗ Low |
| Resident Evil 4 Remake | 3 | ✗ Low |
| CS:GO | 240 | ✓ Comfortable |
| GTA V | 140 | ✓ Comfortable |
| Dirt Rally | 20 | ✗ Low |
| Just Cause 3 | 16 | ✗ Low |
| Star Wars Battlefront | 15 | ✗ Low |
| The Witcher 3 | 10 | ✗ Low |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 9 | ✗ Low |
Laptops with the Quadro M500M
1 matched models — newest first. Names link to the full review.
| Model | Year | Class | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| ThinkPad P50s | 2015 | Workstation | $324 |
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