Radeon R5 M335: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Radeon R5 M335 is a 2015 entry-level discrete GPU from AMD's OEM catalog — notable mainly for recycling 2012-era GCN 1.0 architecture in a part sold three years later. This guide covers its 34 benchmarked games at 1080p on high and the 2 catalog listings matched to it.

Where the Radeon R5 M335 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 2.7 ranks the M335 at 299th of 341 — inside the bottom twenty records of the whole table. Its neighbors are its contemporaries in the OEM-filler class: the Radeon R7 M265 (2.9), HD 8770M (2.8) and Quadro 1000M (2.8) above, the Radeon R7 M260 (2.7) and GeForce GT 635M (2.7) alongside, and the GeForce GT 630M (2.6) below. When a GPU's neighborhood is populated by chips one to three years older than its own release date, the story writes itself.

What the chip brings

The M335's defining quirk is architectural archaeology: the Exo core design is original GCN 1.0 silicon — the same architecture AMD launched in 2012 — repackaged for the 2015 OEM market. The specifications are bottom-tier across the board: 320 shader cores, 4GB of DDR3 on a 64-bit bus with 14GB/s of bandwidth, peak throughput of 0.68 teraflops. PassMark rates it at 548 and Fire Strike at 911, among the lowest discrete-GPU scores in the catalog.

FPS in games at 1080p

The high-preset table starts honestly and ends in single digits. F1 2014 manages 31 fps, Valorant 30, GRID: Autosport 22, The Sims 4 and World of Warships 18, Dirt Rally and DOTA 2 16. From the mid-2010s on, the numbers read like error codes: Alien: Isolation, Rainbow Six Siege and Wolfenstein at 12, Forza Horizon 4 at 8, The Witcher 3 at 6, and Counter-Strike 2, Fortnite, Cyberpunk 2077, Metro Exodus, Far Cry 5 and Forza Horizon 5 all at 2–4 fps.

Laptops that carry it

Two listings, both Dell Inspiron 5559-family 15-inch machines from 2015: the standard 5559 at $256 and the 15-5559 (P51F) variant at $345. The catalog tags both as gaming machines — a generous classification for configurations whose strongest GPU option benchmarked this low. The roster medians (best-GPU score 5.3, gaming index 17) reflect that ceiling: these were everyday consumer laptops, not gaming hardware by any reasonable standard.

Bottom line

The R5 M335 is the OEM-filler phenomenon at its purest: old architecture, minimal hardware, stamped into budget machines to fill a marketing line. The Inspiron 5559 chassis it shipped in were perfectly ordinary family laptops — fine for their era at the right used price. As for the chip: it decodes video, drives the display, and should be ignored for anything interactive made after 2013.