RTX A3000 Laptop GPU: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The RTX A3000 Laptop GPU was the workhorse of NVIDIA's 2021 Ampere professional generation — the chip that filled Dell Precision and HP ZBook fleets by the thousands. 16 games are benchmarked at 1080p and seven catalog models carry it. Note upfront: this catalog holds three records of the same silicon (this one, an "A3000 12GB" entry and an "RTX A3000 (Laptop)" entry) with identical game tables — read them as one chip.

Where the RTX A3000 sits in 2026

The composite score of 69.6 ranks #43 of 341 — surrounded by the RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell (70.9), GeForce RTX 2070 (70.5), RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (69.8), GeForce RTX 5070 (69.6) and RTX 3070 Laptop GPU (69.6). For a 2021 chip that is remarkable company: it still games alongside current mainstream consumer GPUs. The A4500 Laptop GPU sits just below at #46.

What the chip brings

The record lists 4,096 cores on an 8 nm Ampere process, 6 GB of GDDR6, a 70 W envelope and 10.1 TFLOPS. Public benchmarks: PassMark 12,642, Time Spy 7,320, Fire Strike 19,710, GeekBench Vulkan 77,229 and OpenCL 78,307. CUDA, DLSS and Resizable BAR are supported.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset the table starts strong: CS:GO and Overwatch at 240, Valorant at 190, Counter-Strike 2 at 170, The Witcher 3 at 151 and Dota 2 at 142. The middle of the table sits at a steady 110–140 (Fortnite, GTA V, PUBG at 140; Forza Horizon 4 at 120; Far Cry 5 at 111; Battlefield 5 at 110), and the heavy titles remain playable: Forza Horizon 5 at 95, Cyberpunk 2077 at 77, Resident Evil 4 Remake at 75 and Metro Exodus at 70. A complete 60+ table at 1080p high, five years on.

Laptops that carry it

The seven catalog hosts are all 2021–2022 mobile workstations: Dell Precision 7560/7760 ($705/$700), the 2022 Precision 7560-successor 7670 ($652) and 7770 ($1,739), HP ZBook Fury 16 G9 ($1,827), Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 5 ($901) and Dell Precision 5770 ($901). The $652–$705 entries are the value story here — a certified Ampere workstation GPU inside a 16-inch Precision for mid-range consumer money.

Bottom line

Used-market buyers get a genuine bargain: A3000-powered Precisions and ThinkPads from $652 deliver a full 60+ FPS table at 1080p high and professional driver certification. The 6 GB frame buffer is the main caveat for modern texture-heavy games and large viewports — if your software is memory-bound, look at the 12 GB-labeled sibling record or step up to the A4500. For everyone else, this is one of the best pro-value chips on the used market.