Not interested in gaming performance, just overall VMware Workstation Pro performance. I have Googled for days and can't find anything that specifically addresses this question
Probably because the virtual machines don't use your graphics card - at least not directly
I'm thinking it doesn't really matter since graphics performance is so poor anyhow...either is much better than the Intel integrated GPU. Note: there is quite a difference when my laptop when using the Quadro GPU vs. the integrated Intel HD630 GPU as measured by https://www.userbenchmark.com/