Radeon R7 M260: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Radeon R7 M260 is a 2014 entry-level discrete GPU from AMD — one of dozens of near-identical OEM options that populated business laptops of the mid-2010s. This guide covers its 32 benchmarked games at 1080p on high and the 2 catalog listings matched to it.

Where the Radeon R7 M260 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 2.7 ranks the M260 at 300th of 341 — inside the bottom fifteen records of the table. The neighborhood is the usual legacy cluster: the HD 8770M (2.8) and Quadro 1000M (2.8) above, its architectural sibling the Radeon R5 M335 (2.7) alongside, and the GeForce GT 635M (2.7), GT 630M (2.6) and HD 7670M (2.5) below. Nothing in that list has been a meaningful graphics option for close to a decade.

What the chip brings

The M260 is a GCN 3.0 design (carrying Opal Pro / Mars core codenames) with 384 shader cores clocked at up to 980MHz, 4GB of DDR3 memory on a 64-bit bus, and peak throughput of 0.75 teraflops on the 28nm process. PassMark rates it at 532 and Fire Strike at 1067 — figures that placed it a nose ahead of integrated graphics in 2014 and have since been left far behind by every baseline iGPU since.

FPS in games at 1080p

The high-preset table's honest band is narrow: Valorant at 30 fps leads, with GRID: Autosport at 23, F1 2014 and Wolfenstein: The New Order at 18, DOTA 2 at 16, Civilization: Beyond Earth and The Evil Within at 15, and The Sims 4 at 14. Below that, the numbers describe a machine not meant for this: Battlefield Hardline at 12, Alien: Isolation at 10, Forza Horizon 4 at 7, The Witcher 3 at 4, 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 2015 HP business machines: the EliteBook 850 G2 (15.6-inch) at $172 and the EliteBook 840 G2 (14-inch) at $135. These were corporate fleet laptops where the M260 served as the optional discrete GPU — useful at the time for extra display outputs and GPU-accelerated office workloads. Note the usual roster caveat: these models' catalog medians (a best-GPU score of 45.9) reflect their full configuration range including stronger options, not this chip's tier.

Bottom line

The EliteBook 840/850 G2 chassis remain respectable used-business-laptop buys at $135–172 — good keyboards, solid builds, easy service. The R7 M260 inside is best understood as part of that value story's fine print: present, harmless, and irrelevant to the purchase decision. For gaming, even lightly, a modern integrated GPU in any current thin-and-light will outperform it several times over.