Simply final week rumors emerged of there probably being two new price range AMD Radeon GPUs, the RX 7400 and RX 7300. Nevertheless, recent rumors at the moment are suggesting that no matter these playing cards might need been, they’re not actively being labored on as new price range graphics playing cards for the gaming market.
It’s a tragic growth, as the perfect graphics card lists of the world are crying out for some really price range choices to advocate to patrons. AMD‘s present Radeon RX 7600 props up our listing as the highest possibility for patrons on a price range, but it surely’s nonetheless a $250 card. An RX 7400 or RX 7300 that provided fundamental 1080p efficiency for nearer to $150 would’ve been a really welcome addition.
The brand new leak comes from Taiwanese tech web site, Benchlife, which studies having appeared into the plans of a number of add-in board (AIB) companions – the corporate’s that make the precise graphics playing cards – for AMD and located that none are actively engaged on new price range playing cards primarily based on AMD’s present RDNA 3 GPU structure. It does, nonetheless, go on to say that it’s doable that the likes of Dell, HP, and Lenovo (DHL, because it calls them) could possibly be engaged on such playing cards for unique use in small, enterprise, or embedded forms of methods.
The latter situation would make a variety of sense as though a price range graphics card primarily based on the identical Navi 33 GPU because the RX 7600 can be a welcome product for customers on a price range, it’s doable it might be a product with vanishingly small revenue margins for AMD and its companions. In any case, there’s a certain quantity of fastened value to creating a graphics card – you at all times want a PCB, reminiscence chips, different elements, a cooler – fairly outdoors of the various value of the GPU that sits on the coronary heart of it. As such, there’s solely so low-cost a card can ever be.
So, whereas it’s trying like there’s likelihood we’d not ever see the RX 7400 and RX 7300 as standalone graphics playing cards, there was some optimistic information from this Benchlife report. They declare that each one the AIBs they’ve heard from are “presently busy with the following technology of Radeon graphics playing cards primarily based on the RDNA 4 GPU structure.” Whereas there wasn’t any significant doubt as to a brand new technology of AMD graphics playing cards being in growth for launch comparatively quickly, this confirms that the event is effectively underway.
Whether or not we really see any RDNA 4 graphics playing cards this yr, or if the newest rumors that the RX 8000 sequence launch date received’t be till early subsequent yr show to be true, is just not one thing this newest report offers a lot of a touch on but it surely does not less than present there’s no motive to suspect any additional delay.
As for what Nvidia’s cooking as much as compete with AMD’s RDNA 4 playing cards, you’ll be able to try what we presently know in regards to the Blackwell structure specs and take a look at what a doable new RTX Titan AI card might appear to be.
