Radeon R5 M430: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Radeon R5 M430 is the last of the GCN 1.0 "Jet" fillers — a 2016 entry chip with DDR3 memory that AMD shipped by the millions into budget business laptops. This guide covers its 20 benchmarked games at 1080p (1 with medium data) and the four catalog listings matched to it.

Where the Radeon R5 M430 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 3.2 ranks it 290th of 341 — the bottom sixth. The neighbors: the GeForce 830M (3.4), Radeon Vega 3 Compute Engine (3.4) and Quadro 3000M (3.4) above; the Radeon R7 M340 (3.2), UHD Graphics 617 (3.2) and GeForce GT 750M (3.2) below. Level with a 2011 professional card and the weakest modern integrated graphics — there is no performance case left to make for this chip.

What the chip brings

GCN 1.0 architecture, Jet codename, 28nm process: 320 shader cores boosting to 1030MHz, rated at 0.66 teraflops, with 4GB of DDR3 memory on a narrow 64-bit bus at just 18GB/s — the slowest memory arrangement in this batch. Public benchmarks: PassMark 648, Fire Strike 1004. The 4GB sticker hid a bandwidth-starved core; every successor generation fixed exactly this weakness.

FPS in games at 1080p

The playable rows end quickly below the capped quartet: Valorant at 35 fps, DOTA 2 21, Farming Simulator 17 at 17, Dirt Rally 16, Rainbow Six Siege 14, Star Wars Battlefront 10, Forza Horizon 4 at 9, The Witcher 3 7, Fortnite 6, Battlefield 5 at 3. The modern block is a hard stop: Cyberpunk 2077 3, Far Cry 5 3, Forza Horizon 5 2, Metro Exodus 2, Counter-Strike 2 1, Resident Evil 4 remake 1. Low-settings 2014-era gaming is the full envelope.

Laptops that carry it

Four listings match, all budget office machines: ThinkPad L470 (2017) at $189, Dell Inspiron 15 3567 (2016) at $319, Latitude 3580 (2015) at $214 and Latitude 3480 (2015) at $187. Note the fleet medians — best-GPU score 45.9, gaming index 71 — which describe these models' stronger configuration options, not this chip; the M430 itself scores 3.2. Judge each listing on its actual spec sheet: these chassis were sold across wide GPU ladders, and the M430 is the bottom rung.

Bottom line

The R5 M430 is the definition of sticker graphics: 4GB of DDR3 on a 64-bit bus feeding a 320-core chip that any modern integrated GPU outruns by multiples. None of the four host machines needs it for its office duties — they were sold with it because a discrete badge sold laptops in 2016. In 2026 the $187-319 asking range is reasonable for the keyboards and screens, and the graphics should be priced at exactly zero. If a game matters to you at all, this record is a firm pass.