GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU is the third catalog record for NVIDIA's most prolific mainstream gaming chip — the same GA106 silicon carried under its plain and "Mobile" names elsewhere on the site, captured here under the laptop-specific name with benchmarks in 123 games at 1080p. The 142-model matched roster makes it one of the most represented GPUs in the used catalog. This guide covers where this record lands in 2026.

Where the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU sits in 2026

This record scores 71.0 and ranks 39th of 341 scored mobile GPUs — a handful of places behind its sibling records at 72.6, with the gap illustrating how much implementation mix matters in a chip that vendors shipped from thin 14-inch machines to 17-inch desktop replacements. The neighborhood here is professional: the Quadro RTX 5000 (71.2) and Radeon RX 7600M XT (71.5) above, the RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell (70.9) and RTX A3000 (69.6) below, with the RTX 2070 (70.5) alongside and the RTX 4060 Laptop record (69.8) closing the list. Outranking workstation parts is the quiet advantage of buying gaming silicon used.

What the chip brings

The record lists the family core: 3,840 CUDA cores on an 8 nm process, about 10.9 TFLOPS and an 80 W-class thermal design, with the full feature trio of ray tracing cores, DLSS and Resizable BAR. Public benchmarks for this record sit around 16,900 PassMark points and a 3DMark Time Spy graphics score near 8,200, with strong CUDA compute results — over 82,000 points in the Vulkan test. The detailed spec sheet lives on the chip's spec page, alongside the sibling records that carry the bus-width and bandwidth figures this record omits.

FPS in games at 1080p

The frame-rate table is the same mainstream-strong picture the chip's other records show. At the high preset: CS:GO and Overwatch at 240 FPS, Forza Horizon 6's record at 240, Valorant at 190, Counter-Strike 2 at 170, Fortnite, GTA V and FIFA 22 at 140, and Apex Legends at 135 rising to 164 on medium. The AAA catalog holds at high: the Witcher 3 at 142, the Resident Evil 4 remake at 124, Forza Horizon 5 at 120, Far Cry 5 at 112 and Cyberpunk 2077 at 103. The demanding ports mark the tier's edge — Atomic Heart 75 rising to 131, God of War 73 rising to 90, Hogwarts Legacy 70 rising to 88, Red Dead Redemption 2 at 63 and The Last of Us 55 rising to 66.

Laptops that carry it

The matched roster of 142 models is the 2022–2023 gaming market in miniature. Dell G15 units anchor value at $676–$870 with the Gigabyte G5 at $553 beneath them; Alienware's X14, x17 R2, M17 R5 and M15 R7 span $798–$1,260; OMEN 16 machines run $971–$1,284, and the OMEN 17 tops out at $2,171–$2,726. Roster medians — gaming index 75, 49 games clearing recommended settings, best-CPU score 59.5 — describe a tier where the GPU usually leads the laptop, with mid-range processors riding alongside.

Bottom line

However the listing names it, the RTX 3060 remains the used market's default gaming GPU: DLSS-equipped, ranking alongside parts a class above, and available in more machines than any other RTX chip on this site. This record's slightly lower placement against its siblings is a reminder to compare specific laptops rather than GPU names — a well-fed 3060 in a thick chassis outranks a power-limited one every time. From the $553 Gigabyte G5 to the $2,726 OMEN 17, the tier covers every budget, and every variant of it plays the same game library the same way.