The 384 shaders can be used with OpenCL 1.2 for general-purpose calculations (as 6 compute units). In older games, however, higher quality settings will be possible. Current and demanding games of 2013/2014 can be played fluently only in low resolutions and detail settings. The performance of the 128 bit Radeon R7 M260 is just slightly below a GeForce 825M, while models using a 64 bit memory interface will be a bit slower. The core is clocked at up to 715 MHz (128 bit version) or 980 MHz (64 bit version) and can access up to 4 GB of DDR3 memory (1000 MHz, 2000 MHz effective). Just like the older Radeon HD 8700M and 8600M series, it is based on the Mars chip (28nm GCN architecture) with 384 shader cores, 24 TMUs and 8 ROPs. The AMD Radeon R7 M260 is a lower mid-range DirectX 11 graphics card for laptops. Would be nice to get the GPU working (without killing the laptop of course) for Solidworks and other GPU accelerated worloads.Īny suggestions? Taking this laptop apart is quite simple so i don't mind probing around.AMD Radeon R7 M260 ► remove from comparison My current HP laptop is falling apart and there's only so much fiberglass i can epoxy on it before it's too far gone, also it has an AMD A4400 CPU which is mega slow. It has a nice 1080p screen and a pretty good i5 CPU and i'd like to use it as my study/university laptop. No GPU usage monitor in task manager (win10).īenchmarks report GPU as not responding and default to iGPU.Īs it happens i'm writing this thread with the laptop i question. The symptoms for this dead GPU issue include:ĭrivers don't initialize and throw an error message on start up. I tried the good old bake in the oven trick, which fixed a few of my dead PC parts and laptops but not this one. When i pulled the heatsink apart i found a huge load of lint and dust buildup so the laptop was most likely constantly overheating.Īs it happens overheating GPU's often die. I fixed the broken plastic with hot glue and it's all fine now, except for the GPU. The laptop originally had the hinge support broken off completely in the lower chassis/bottom cover. My focus in this thread is the Satellite L50-B-281, which was in the bundle. He said all of them work but they all have issues, and it's true.

Local PC repair guy had some laptops in the e-waste bin so i bought them for cheap, as i do.

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