Simply final week rumors emerged of there presumably being two new finances AMD Radeon GPUs, the RX 7400 and RX 7300. Nevertheless, recent rumors are actually suggesting that no matter these playing cards may need been, they’re not actively being labored on as new finances graphics playing cards for the gaming market.
It’s a tragic improvement, as the very best graphics card lists of the world are crying out for some really finances choices to advocate to patrons. AMD‘s present Radeon RX 7600 props up our checklist as the highest choice for patrons on a finances, however it’s nonetheless a $250 card. An RX 7400 or RX 7300 that provided primary 1080p efficiency for nearer to $150 would’ve been a really welcome addition.
The brand new leak comes from Taiwanese tech website, Benchlife, which studies having regarded 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 finances playing cards based mostly on AMD’s present RDNA 3 GPU structure. It does, nevertheless, go on to say that it’s doable that the likes of Dell, HP, and Lenovo (DHL, because it calls them) might be engaged on such playing cards for unique use in small, enterprise, or embedded sorts of programs.
The latter state of affairs would make a whole lot of sense as though a finances graphics card based mostly on the identical Navi 33 GPU because the RX 7600 can be a welcome product for shoppers on a finances, 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 parts, a cooler – fairly exterior 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 a great probability we would not ever see the RX 7400 and RX 7300 as standalone graphics playing cards, there was some constructive information from this Benchlife report. They declare that every one the AIBs they’ve heard from are “at present busy with the following era of Radeon graphics playing cards based mostly on the RDNA 4 GPU structure.” Whereas there wasn’t any significant doubt as to a brand new era of AMD graphics playing cards being in improvement for launch comparatively quickly, this confirms that the event is properly 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, just isn’t one thing this newest report supplies a lot of a touch on however it does a minimum of 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 possibly can take a look at what we at present 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.
