Quadro K3000M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Quadro K3000M is NVIDIA's 2012 Kepler professional GPU for the big-chassis workstation generation — GK104 silicon cut down to entry-professional scale. This guide covers its 16 benchmarked games at 1080p on the high preset and the 2 catalog models that carry it.

Where the Quadro K3000M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 5.5 ranks it 273rd of 341 — the bottom fifth. The neighbors: the Virtio-GPU Venus (6), GeForce 840M (5.8) and Iris Graphics 540 (5.6) above; the Radeon 8050S (5.5), R7 M460 (5.3) and R7 M260X (5.1) below. A 2012 professional card ranked among entry 2014-2015 graphics is the expected arithmetic of fourteen years of progress.

What the chip brings

Kepler on 28nm, GK104 die: 576 CUDA cores at up to 654MHz, 2GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus with 89GB/s, a 75W envelope, 0.75 teraflops. Public benchmarks: PassMark 1623, OpenCL compute 4272. The wide bus and modest clocks were tuned for workstation steadiness rather than gaming throughput — and the score shows it.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: Valorant at 50, DOTA 2 at 35, Fortnite at 21, Forza Horizon 4 at 18, Counter-Strike 2 at 16, Battlefield 5 at 14, The Witcher 3 at 12, Far Cry 5 and Forza Horizon 5 at 10 each. The bottom: Cyberpunk 2077 at 8, Metro Exodus at 7, the Resident Evil 4 remake at 5. Light esports at reduced settings is the honest envelope.

Laptops that carry it

Two listings, both 2012 17-inch workstations: the Dell Precision M6700 at $309 and HP EliteBook 8770w at $289. Fleet medians: best-CPU 34.3, gaming index 23, mobility 5 — the graphics median equals this chip. These are tank-class professional machines of the early 2010s; the same chassis generation also hosts the Fermi-based Quadro 3000M covered separately in this catalog.

Bottom line

The K3000M is a buy-for-the-chassis GPU: excellent build, terrible ranking, honest little table. The M6700 and 8770w are $289-309 of old-school workstation metal whose value now lies in build and keyboard. Light esports remains possible; anything modern is not — the table below is the complete story.