Quadro 3000M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Quadro 3000M is NVIDIA's 2011 Fermi-generation professional GPU — 240 CUDA cores and 2GB of GDDR5, the entry certified option of the early-2010s workstation era. This guide covers its 16 benchmarked games at 1080p on the high preset and the 5 catalog listings matched to its name.

Where the Quadro 3000M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 3.4 ranks it 289th of 341 — the bottom sixth. The neighbors: the UHD Graphics 610 (3.4), GeForce 830M (3.4) and Vega 3 Compute (3.4) above; the Radeon R5 M430 (3.2), R7 M340 (3.2) and UHD Graphics 617 (3.2) below. Fermi professional silicon ranked among 2014-2018 entry parts — the expected resting place of the oldest professional tier in the catalog.

What the chip brings

Fermi architecture on 40nm: 240 CUDA cores, 2GB of GDDR5, a 75W envelope, 0.43 teraflops. Public benchmarks: PassMark 1004, OpenCL compute 3718. The 3000M paired with the Quadro 2000M (2.1, covered separately) as the two-step professional ladder of its chassis generation — certification hardware first, graphics second.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: Valorant at 40, DOTA 2 at 24, Fortnite and Forza Horizon 4 at 12 each, The Witcher 3 at 9, Battlefield 5 and Counter-Strike 2 at 7 each, Far Cry 5 at 6, Cyberpunk 2077 and Forza Horizon 5 at 5. The floor: the Resident Evil 4 remake at 2, Metro Exodus at 4. A step above its 2000M sibling in every row, still far below playable for anything modern.

Laptops that carry it — or the name

Five listings, mixed by era: the Dell Precision M6600 (2011) at $219 is the genuine original host, and the Precision M6700 (2012) at $309 and EliteBook 8770w (2012) at $289 belong to the correct chassis generation. The Precision 7710 (2015) at $333 and ZBook 17 G3 (2015) at $321 postdate this chip by four years — name-matches on platforms that shipped Kepler-era Quadros. Pool medians (best-GPU 5.5, gaming index 23) blend those platforms; judge each listing on its actual GPU row.

Bottom line

The Quadro 3000M is the upper rung of the catalog's Fermi professional pair — measurably quicker than the 2000M, still obsolete for gaming. Its genuine chassis (the M6600, and the M6700/8770w generation) represent the last of the pre-Kepler workstation era at $219-309. For collectors and light-duty buyers only; the table above is the complete honest story.