Radeon R7 M265: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Radeon R7 M265 is a 2014 entry-level discrete GPU from AMD's OEM lineup — the kind of card that existed to put "dedicated graphics" on a budget laptop sticker. This guide covers its 36 benchmarked games at 1080p on high and the single catalog listing matched to it.

Where the Radeon R7 M265 sits in 2026

With a catalog score of 2.9, the R7 M265 ranks 296th of 341 — the bottom tenth of the table. Its neighborhood is entirely legacy silicon: the GeForce GT 750M (3.2) and NVS 5400M (3.0) above, the Radeon R5 M330 (3.0) alongside the HD 8770M and Quadro 1000M (2.8) below. Cards in this band long ago surrendered their reason for existence — any current integrated GPU outperforms them while drawing less power.

What the chip brings

The R7 M265 is a GCN 3.0 design on the 28nm process with 384 shader cores and 4GB of DDR3 memory — the capacity-for-sticker trade that defined this class, with bandwidth far too low to feed the cores. Peak throughput is 0.75 teraflops, and its PassMark rating of 571 is among the lowest in the catalog's discrete-GPU records. Fire Strike scores it at 1336, confirming the positioning: a hair above integrated graphics of its own year, and nowhere since.

FPS in games at 1080p

The table's structure is the familiar entry-GPU cliff. Capped legacy benchmarks at the top — Counter-Strike: GO and Overwatch at 240, Grand Theft Auto V and PUBG at 140 — then the honest band: Valorant at 30 fps, World of Warships at 28, The Sims 4 at 26, F1 2014 at 23, GRID: Autosport at 22, Dirt Rally at 21. Everything from the mid-2010s onward slides into single digits: The Witcher 3 at 9, Forza Horizon 4 at 8, Counter-Strike 2 at 4, Fortnite at 4, Cyberpunk 2077 at 3, and Metro Exodus, Far Cry 5 and Forza Horizon 5 all at 2 fps.

Laptops that carry it

One listing: Lenovo's ThinkPad E550, a 2015 15-inch business machine at $174. That's the right context for this chip — an entry-level option in a budget business laptop, never a gaming part. The machine's catalog profile (performance index around 15, gaming index 10) describes it accurately: a straightforward office computer with a discrete GPU that mostly idled.

Bottom line

There's no scenario in 2026 where the R7 M265 is the reason to buy anything. The ThinkPad E550 that carries it is a $174 business machine — reasonable at that price for keyboard-and-browser duty, with the GPU as an inconsequential passenger. If you're evaluating one, treat the graphics row of its spec sheet as marketing residue from a decade ago and judge the machine on everything else.