GeForce 845M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The NVIDIA GeForce 845M is a rare bird — a Maxwell-generation OEM card that never got a retail story, appearing in a handful of preconfigured 17-inch laptops. This guide covers its 24 benchmarked games at 1080p on high and the single catalog listing matched to it.

Where the GeForce 845M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 11.1 ranks it 248th of 341 — the lower third. The neighbors are the entry-class chips of two eras: the GeForce 940MX (12), Radeon R7 M360 (11.5) and FirePro W5130M (11.3) above; the Iris Graphics 650 (11), Apple M4 GPU730 (10.6) and UHD Graphics 730 (10.5) below. Scoring a hair under Intel's better 2017 integrated graphics and its own 940MX sibling (a later rebrand of this class) is the placement.

What the chip brings

Maxwell architecture on 28nm: 384 CUDA cores rated at 0.9 teraflops, 2GB of GDDR5, a 45W envelope and CUDA flagged. Public benchmarks: PassMark 1499, Fire Strike 2362, GeekBench OpenCL 6112. The 845M was the quiet filler between the 840M and 850M — same family, barely distinguishable, sold only through OEM channels, which is why it surfaces in single listings a decade later.

FPS in games at 1080p

The table has a solid 2014-era spine: F1 2014 at 62 fps, Valorant 50, Alien: Isolation 34, The Sims 4 31, DOTA 2 30, Shadow of Mordor 22, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Fortnite at 20, Dragon Age: Inquisition 19 — plus the capped quartet at its 240/140 ceilings. The modern block fades quickly: Forza Horizon 4 16, Counter-Strike 2 14, The Witcher 3 10, Far Cry 5 10, Forza Horizon 5 9, Metro Exodus 6, Cyberpunk 2077 7, Resident Evil 4 remake 5. Light titles and old engines remain its territory.

Laptops that carry it

One catalog listing matches: a Dell Inspiron 17 7746 — a 17-inch desktop-replacement of the mid-2010s with no price listed. Its medians describe the class honestly: gaming index 23, USComp score 21, mobility 7 — a big, slow, inexpensive multimedia laptop of its era, with this card supplying the "multimedia" half of the description.

Bottom line

The 845M is a footnote GPU: OEM-only, sandwiched between better-known siblings, and carried by exactly one catalog machine. Its table delivers exactly what its class promised — older games at 1080p medium, esports at low, nothing modern at quality settings. Unless the host Inspiron is nearly free, there is no 2026 reason to seek this chip out; its value on this page is completeness, giving shoppers who encounter the name in a listing an honest reference for what it can do.