AMD started Radeon R7 M260X sales 7 January 2014. This is a GCN architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1000 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.57% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Radeon R7 M260X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	783
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	Mars
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	7 January 2014 (10 years old)

Technical specs

Radeon R7 M260X's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R7 M260X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Compute units	6
Core clock speed	715 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	715 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	950 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Texture fill rate	17.16	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	549.1 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon R7 M260X's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	medium sized
Bus support	PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R7 M260X: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R7 M260X. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R7 M260X. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration	-
Enduro	-
FreeSync	1
HD3D	+
PowerTune	+
DualGraphics	1
TrueAudio	-
ZeroCore	+
Switchable graphics	1

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R7 M260X, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	DirectX® 12
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.3	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	2.0
Mantle	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R7 M260X. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

R7 M260X 2.57

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

R7 M260X 997

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

R7 M260X 7640

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

R7 M260X 1903

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

R7 M260X 1396

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

R7 M260X 9034

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

R7 M260X 98071

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon R7 M260X is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

5−6

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4
Battlefield 5	5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6
Far Cry 5	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4
Forza Horizon 4	6−7
Hitman 3	5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn	4−5
Red Dead Redemption 2	6−7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	9−10
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4
Battlefield 5	5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6
Far Cry 5	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4
Forza Horizon 4	6−7
Hitman 3	5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn	4−5
Metro Exodus	3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2	6−7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	9−10
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	6−7
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4
Battlefield 5	5−6
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6
Far Cry 5	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4
Forza Horizon 4	6−7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	6−7
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6
Hitman 3	5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10
Metro Exodus	1−2
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	1−2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3
Hitman 3	3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2
Cyberpunk 2077	0−1
Far Cry 5	4−5
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon R7 M260X performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

NVIDIA GeForce 830M 100.78

AMD Radeon HD 7690M 100.78

Intel HD Graphics 530 100.39

AMD Radeon R7 M260X 100

AMD Radeon HD 8690M 98.83

AMD Radeon R9 M375 98.44

AMD Radeon HD 8750M 98.44

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R7 M260X is GeForce 830M, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

GeForce830M

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Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon R7 M260X:

NVIDIA GeForce 920MX 108.17

NVIDIA GeForce 930M 101.56

NVIDIA GeForce 830M 100.78

AMD Radeon R7 M260X 100

NVIDIA GeForce GT 645M 93

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 92.22

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M 81.71