Radeon R7 M460: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Radeon R7 M460 is AMD's 2016 answer to the question few people asked: what if a laptop needed a discrete GPU that barely outpaced the integrated graphics it sat next to? This guide covers its 49 benchmarked games at 1080p and the single catalog listing that carries it.

Where the Radeon R7 M460 sits in 2026

With a catalog score of 5.3, the R7 M460 ranks 275th of 341 scored chips — deep in the bottom fifth of the table. It sits in a tie-dense zone with the Quadro K3000M (5.5) and Radeon 8050S (5.5) just above it, and the slightly older Radeon R7 M260X (5.1) just below. This is the territory where dedicated silicon and integrated graphics overlap: by the late 2010s, ordinary integrated GPUs were posting comparable numbers without a separate chip drawing extra power.

What the chip brings

The R7 M460 is a GCN 3.0 design on a 28nm process with 384 shader cores and 2GB of slow DDR3 memory on a narrow bus. Peak throughput lands at roughly 0.86 teraflops, and its PassMark rating of 1074 places it firmly in the entry tier of its own era — let alone ours. There is no modern feature set here: no ray tracing, no machine-learning upscaling, just a basic DirectX 12-capable rasterizer.

FPS in games at 1080p

The headline rows of its table are capped legacy numbers: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Overwatch at 240, Grand Theft Auto V and PUBG at 140 — the ceiling of the measurement, not a reflection of headroom. The first uncapped entries tell the real story: F1 2014 at 44 fps, Valorant at 40, FIFA 17 at 36, DOTA 2 at 24. Anything released after roughly 2017 drops off a cliff — Fortnite manages 12, Rainbow Six Siege 13, The Witcher 3 runs at 7, Cyberpunk 2077 at 5, and the Resident Evil 4 remake at 3 fps. The 3 games with medium-preset data confirm the same picture one notch down.

Laptops that carry it

Exactly one catalog listing is matched to this chip: a 2017 Dell Inspiron 17, tagged as a gaming machine and listed at $373. The gaming tag was generous even then — a 17-inch chassis with a 384-core GPU was never going to game seriously — but as a big-screen machine for web, video and light titles it made a certain budget sense. Its catalog medians (performance index around 30, gaming index 12) describe that specific machine, not a family of configs.

Bottom line

In 2026 the R7 M460 is a display-output chip, not a gaming chip. If you find one of these machines at a correspondingly low price, judge it on its screen, keyboard and battery — the GPU is best treated as a bonus that keeps fan noise down during video playback. For anything resembling modern gaming, even a modest current integrated GPU will serve you better.