RTX A3000 12GB Laptop GPU: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The RTX A3000 12GB Laptop GPU is the second of three catalog records covering NVIDIA's 2021 Ampere professional workhorse — distinguished from the base record by a "12GB" label in its name, while the recorded spec fields still list 6 GB. 16 games are benchmarked at 1080p across a seven-model roster. This page treats the evidence honestly: the game table, benchmarks and hosts are identical to the base A3000 record.

Where the RTX A3000 12GB sits in 2026

This record's composite score of 68.8 ranks #47 of 341 — a few places below the base A3000 record (#43, 69.6) despite describing the same silicon, which is a good reminder that record-level scores of duplicate entries drift apart while the underlying chip does not. The neighbors are the GeForce RTX 5070 (69.6), RTX 3070 Laptop GPU (69.6), RTX A4500 (68.9), Radeon RX 6600M (68.6) and the RTX 2080 Max-Q record (68.5) — mainstream company for a 2021 pro part.

What the chip brings

The stored specs read 4,096 cores, 8 nm Ampere, a 70 W envelope and 10.1 TFLOPS — identical to the base record. The VRAM column is where this entry is interesting: the name says 12 GB, the spec field says 6 GB of GDDR6, and the benchmark evidence cannot separate the two records (PassMark 12,642 and Time Spy 7,320 match the base entry exactly; only the GeekBench results differ slightly, Vulkan 68,812 vs 77,229). Treat the memory configuration as listed per-machine rather than per-record.

FPS in games at 1080p

The table matches the base A3000 record row for row at the high preset: CS:GO and Overwatch at 240, Valorant at 190, Counter-Strike 2 at 170, The Witcher 3 at 151, Dota 2 at 142, Fortnite/GTA V/PUBG at 140, Forza Horizon 4 at 120, Far Cry 5 at 111, Battlefield 5 at 110, Forza Horizon 5 at 95, Cyberpunk 2077 at 77, Resident Evil 4 Remake at 75 and Metro Exodus at 70. No row falls below 60 at 1080p high.

Laptops that carry it

The seven hosts are the same Precision/ZBook/ThinkPad fleet as the base record: Dell Precision 7560/7760 ($705/$700), 7670/7770 ($652/$1,739), HP ZBook Fury 16 G9 ($1,827), Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 5 and Dell Precision 5770 ($901 each). Listings in this fleet that advertise the 12 GB variant deserve a spec-sheet check at purchase time — the record data here cannot confirm which memory size a specific machine carries.

Bottom line

Read this page together with the other two A3000 records: same silicon, same table, same hosts. The used-market value case is identical — a certified Ampere workstation GPU from $652 with a full 60+ FPS table at 1080p high. If a listing genuinely carries 12 GB, that is the variant to prefer for memory-hungry viewports; verify on the machine, not on the record name.