GeForce RTX 3060: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce RTX 3060 laptop chip is the workhorse of the used gaming market — 142 matched models in the catalog make it the most common RTX GPU on the site, and its 12 GB of memory became the spec everyone remembers. It has been benchmarked in 123 games at 1080p. This guide covers its 2026 ranking, frame rates and the machines that carry it.

Where the RTX 3060 sits in 2026

This record scores 72.6 and ranks 33rd of 341 scored mobile GPUs — and the surrounding table entries are its own reflections: the RTX 3060 Mobile and RTX 3060 (Laptop) records at the same 72.6, with the RTX 4080's alternate record (72.8) just above and the current-generation RTX 5060 Laptop GPU (72.1) just below, alongside the Radeon RX 6800M and 6700M (both 71.6). A 2021 mainstream chip scoring level with a 2025 mainstream release is the used-market story of this tier in one line: this generation of GPU has barely depreciated in capability.

What the chip brings

The GA106 die on an 8 nm process carries 3,840 shader cores, 12 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus with 360 GB/s of bandwidth, about 10.9 TFLOPS and an 80 W-class thermal design. The feature set includes ray tracing cores, DLSS upscaling, Resizable BAR and CUDA — the full Ampere stack. The 12 GB memory pool is the headline: unusually generous for the tier and era, it is what keeps the chip comfortable at high texture settings years after 6 and 8 GB contemporaries started to struggle. Public benchmarks sit around 16,900 PassMark points and a 3DMark Time Spy graphics score near 8,200.

FPS in games at 1080p

Competitive titles run at monitor speed: CS:GO and Overwatch at 240 FPS on the high preset, Forza Horizon 6's record at 240, Valorant 190, Counter-Strike 2 170, Fortnite, GTA V and FIFA 22 at 140, Apex Legends 135 rising to 164 on medium. The AAA catalog plays at high settings: the Witcher 3 at 142, the Resident Evil 4 remake at 124, Forza Horizon 5 at 120, Forza Horizon 4 at 110, Far Cry 5 at 112, Shadow of the Tomb Raider 116 rising to 155 and Cyberpunk 2077 at 103 on high. The heaviest ports hold the 60-line or sit just under it: Atomic Heart 75 rising to 131, God of War 73 rising to 90, Hogwarts Legacy 70 rising to 88, Red Dead Redemption 2 63, Dying Light 2 64 rising to 73 and The Last of Us 55 rising to 66.

Laptops that carry it

The 142-model roster is the deepest gaming pool in the catalog, 2022–2023 vintage. Dell's G15 5520 and 5525 bring up the value end at $676–$870, and the Gigabyte G5 (2023) undercuts everything at $553 — the cheapest 12 GB RTX machine on the site. Alienware's x17 R2, X14, M17 R5 and M15 R7 span $798–$1,260; HP's 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, portability 21.9 — proper gaming laptops, not thin-and-lights.

Bottom line

The RTX 3060 is the value sweet spot of the used RTX market: DLSS-equipped, level with the current mainstream tier on raw numbers, carrying 12 GB of memory that out-specs newer mid-range cards, and available from $553 in the Gigabyte G5 or $676 in Dell's G15. The compare pages against the RTX 3050, 4060 and 5060 quantify each step, and the 3060's case rests on that VRAM number and price: it does everything the 3050 does with more headroom, and most of what the 4060 does for less money. For a first serious gaming laptop bought used, this is the default answer.