Dell Precision M4700
workstation
2012
15.6"
dGPU
⏱ ~7h
⚖️ 2.79 kg
⚖️ GPU-bound
LB Score
30
out of 100
Fit for you
38/100
✚ Strong: fit_price
⚠ Weak: fit_mobility
Your focus
Performance 20%
Mobility 20%
Reliability 20%
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Profile
vs medianCPU
33
Core i7-3740QM
GPU
0
Quadro K1100M
RAM max
16 GB
DDR3
Battery
68 Wh ~
~7h
Price
$131
market
Age
14 years
2012
📌 Quick verdict
Overall score 30/100. Strongest suit — Connectivity (100), weakest — Gaming (15).
✓ Strengths
Connectivity (100)
⚠ Weaknesses
Gaming (15)
Money & ownership
All money blocks on one card
Cost to own
Buying at listing price $131, 2-year horizon — price minus projected resale, spread over months.
≈ $2.0/mo
Money could earn
Keeping the $131 price invested at 4.16%/yr (US Treasury 3-month bill, as of Oct 30, 2026) over 2 years instead of buying.
≈ $0.5/mo
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💰 Price trend
📉 Loses ~$145/year (7%).
Dashed segment is a model forecast, not observed listings.
Specs in context
LB Score
30
CPU score
33
Office tier
GPU score
0
Office tier
RAM max
16 GB
Comfort
Weight
2.79 kg
Heavy
Battery
68 Wh
Large tier
Bars show where each spec sits on the site-wide level scale (same thresholds as the quick verdict). For weight, shorter bars mean a lighter laptop.
Full specifications
- Brand
- Dell
- Series
- Precision M-series (legacy)
- Type
- Workstation
- Release year
- 2012
- Screen size
- 15.6"
- Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Panel type
- tn
- Color gamut (sRGB)
- 100%~
- Processor
- Intel Core i7 3740QM
- Graphics
- Quadro K1100M 2GB
- RAM (max)
- 16 GB DDR3
- Weight
- 2.79 kg
- Ports
- 10
- Battery
- 68 Wh~
Configuration options
Available model options · 3 variants across 3 categories
⚙ Processors (1)
Intel Core i7 3740QM
🎮 Graphics (1)
Quadro K1100M 2GB
• Igpu (1)
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Performance metrics
Performance
18
Portability
20
Light office
40
Gaming
15
Creative
30
Energy efficiency
42
Connectivity
100
Value
55
Color accuracy
—
Processors (1)
Graphics (1 discrete + 0 integrated)
🎮 Gaming performance
FPS @ 1080p for the model's best GPU
| Game | FPS (1080p) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Counter-Strike 2 | 240 | ✓ Comfortable |
| Overwatch | 240 | ✓ Comfortable |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 140 | ✓ Comfortable |
| PUBG: Battlegrounds | 140 | ✓ Comfortable |
| F1 2014 | 55 | ⚠ Playable |
| Valorant | 40 | ⚠ Playable |
| Sims 4 | 36 | ⚠ Playable |
| GRID: Autosport | 35 | ⚠ Playable |
| Alien: Isolation | 25 | ✗ Low |
| Dota 2 | 24 | ✗ Low |
| Dirt Rally | 23 | ✗ Low |
| Battlefield Hardline | 17 | ✗ Low |
| Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare | 15 | ✗ Low |
| Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor | 14 | ✗ Low |
| Far Cry 4 | 12 | ✗ Low |
| Fortnite | 12 | ✗ Low |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 12 | ✗ Low |
| Dragon Age: Inquisition | 11 | ✗ Low |
| Evolve | 11 | ✗ Low |
| Watch Dogs | 11 | ✗ Low |
| Assassin's Creed Unity | 9 | ✗ Low |
| Ryse: Son of Rome | 9 | ✗ Low |
| Batman: Arkham Knight | 8 | ✗ Low |
| Battlefield 5 | 8 | ✗ Low |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 8 | ✗ Low |
| Far Cry 5 | 7 | ✗ Low |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 7 | ✗ Low |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 6 | ✗ Low |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 5 | ✗ Low |
| Metro Exodus | 4 | ✗ Low |
| Resident Evil 4 Remake | 3 | ✗ Low |
💡 31 games in the database for this GPU. ✓ playable (≥60 FPS), ⚠ medium (30-59), ✗ low (<30).
💻 Software compatibility
Counter-Strike 2
✗ Weak
CPU
66%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
Grand Theft Auto V
✗ Weak
CPU
164%
GPU
3%
RAM
400%
Cyberpunk 2077
✗ Weak
CPU
94%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Minecraft
✗ Weak
CPU
328%
GPU
2%
RAM
400%
Fortnite
✗ Weak
CPU
60%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Valorant
✗ Weak
CPU
219%
GPU
3%
RAM
400%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
✗ Weak
CPU
109%
GPU
1%
RAM
267%
Elden Ring
✗ Weak
CPU
60%
GPU
0%
RAM
133%
Red Dead Redemption 2
✗ Weak
CPU
109%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Apex Legends
✗ Weak
CPU
60%
GPU
0%
RAM
267%
Hogwarts Legacy
✗ Weak
CPU
73%
GPU
1%
RAM
100%
Dota 2
✗ Weak
CPU
219%
GPU
3%
RAM
400%
Baldur's Gate 3
✗ Weak
CPU
60%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
Starfield
✗ Weak
CPU
47%
GPU
0%
RAM
100%
Call of Duty: Warzone
✗ Weak
CPU
60%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
League of Legends
✗ Weak
CPU
328%
GPU
3%
RAM
800%
Sims 4
✗ Weak
CPU
219%
GPU
3%
RAM
400%
Helldivers 2
✗ Weak
CPU
47%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
Battlefield 5
✗ Weak
CPU
73%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Far Cry 5
✗ Weak
CPU
82%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Forza Horizon 4
✗ Weak
CPU
94%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Forza Horizon 5
✗ Weak
CPU
73%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
Metro Exodus
✗ Weak
CPU
82%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Overwatch
✗ Weak
CPU
131%
GPU
3%
RAM
400%
PUBG: Battlegrounds
✗ Weak
CPU
82%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Resident Evil 4 Remake
✗ Weak
CPU
66%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
Escape from Tarkov
✗ Weak
CPU
109%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
God of War
✗ Weak
CPU
149%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Horizon Zero Dawn
✗ Weak
CPU
149%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Death Stranding
✗ Weak
CPU
131%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Control
✗ Weak
CPU
109%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Doom Eternal
✗ Weak
CPU
149%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Batman: Arkham Knight
✗ Weak
CPU
182%
GPU
1%
RAM
267%
Hitman 3
✗ Weak
CPU
149%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Flight Simulator 2020
✗ Weak
CPU
117%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Watch Dogs Legion
✗ Weak
CPU
117%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Borderlands 3
✗ Weak
CPU
131%
GPU
1%
RAM
267%
Anno 1800
✗ Weak
CPU
109%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Rainbow Six Siege
✗ Weak
CPU
273%
GPU
2%
RAM
267%
The Division 2
✗ Weak
CPU
149%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Gears Tactics
✗ Weak
CPU
131%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Hunt Showdown
✗ Weak
CPU
117%
GPU
1%
RAM
267%
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
✗ Weak
CPU
109%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
Mafia Definitive Edition
✗ Weak
CPU
149%
GPU
1%
RAM
267%
Days Gone
✗ Weak
CPU
149%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Ghostwire Tokyo
✗ Weak
CPU
78%
GPU
1%
RAM
133%
Returnal
✗ Weak
CPU
94%
GPU
0%
RAM
100%
Dying Light 2
✗ Weak
CPU
109%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
Resident Evil Village
✗ Weak
CPU
94%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
The Callisto Protocol
✗ Weak
CPU
66%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
Atomic Heart
✗ Weak
CPU
102%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Alan Wake 2
✗ Weak
CPU
78%
GPU
0%
RAM
100%
Black Myth Wukong
✗ Weak
CPU
66%
GPU
1%
RAM
100%
Ghost of Tsushima
✗ Weak
CPU
66%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
The Last of Us Part 1
✗ Weak
CPU
66%
GPU
0%
RAM
100%
Diablo 4
✗ Weak
CPU
149%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Spider-Man Miles Morales
✗ Weak
CPU
109%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Star Wars Jedi Survivor
✗ Weak
CPU
66%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
Dead Space Remake
✗ Weak
CPU
102%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
Lies of P
✗ Weak
CPU
94%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Sons of the Forest
✗ Weak
CPU
66%
GPU
0%
RAM
133%
Rise of the Tomb Raider
✗ Weak
CPU
219%
GPU
2%
RAM
400%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
✗ Weak
CPU
182%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
✗ Weak
CPU
164%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla
✗ Weak
CPU
94%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
F1 24
✗ Weak
CPU
182%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
Need for Speed Heat
✗ Weak
CPU
94%
GPU
0%
RAM
200%
Civilization 6
✗ Weak
CPU
219%
GPU
2%
RAM
400%
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order
✗ Weak
CPU
182%
GPU
1%
RAM
200%
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