AMD may very well be about to make avid gamers on ultra-tight budgets very joyful, if rumors are to be believed, as there’s a suggestion that two new entry-level graphics playing cards may very well be arriving quickly. The brand new GPU leak hints that we might see AMD Radeon RX 7400 and RX 7300 playing cards added to the corporate’s lineup, slotting in under the $259 RX 7600.
The RX 7600 is already on the high of our greatest graphics card charts in the case of selecting a funds GPU, however these two new AMD entrants might turn out to be much more tempting selections in the event that they’re significantly cheaper and never an excessive amount of slower.
The supply of this leaked info is X (previously Twitter) tech leaker KOMACHI_ENSAKA (account solely viewable by sure customers), with them merely stating “Radeon RX 7400 & RX 7300,” with an accompanying winky face. This preliminary submit, which was noticed by VideoCardz.com, is adopted up with a reply saying “0x7499, NV33.”
The primary a part of this leak is sort of clear in its which means, however the second half will not be so apparent. The “NV33” bit refers back to the Navi 33 GPU, which is identical chip that powers the RX 7600. In the meantime, the “0x7499” half is a tool ID, which is the distinctive identifier for a mannequin of graphics card. AMD’s open-source GPUOpen instruments itemizing on GitHub reveals three playing cards utilizing this identifier.
As for the Radeon RX 7400 and RX 7300 specs, there’s no additional indication of the place these elements will match into AMD’s present lineup. Nonetheless, we will definitely take some educated guesses.
For a begin, we will observe that AMD doesn’t but have an RX 7500 mannequin, when earlier AMD card ranges have included an RX x500 mannequin, such because the RX 6500. As such, it’s attainable AMD is totally skipping that mannequin this time, or that the RX 7400 and RX 7300 could have even much less energy than a possible RX 7500.
Both method, the RX 7600’s model of the Navi 33 chip consists of 2,048 RDNA 3 stream processors cut up up into 32 compute items (CUs), which run at as much as 2,655MHz and speak to 8GB of GDDR6 reminiscence by way of a 128-bit reminiscence bus.
For comparability, the earlier era RX 6500 XT features a GPU with simply 1,024 RDNA 2 stream processors (16 CUs), whereas the RX 6400 has simply 768 RDNA 2 stream processors (12 CUs). In the meantime, the built-in graphics of AMD’s high APU, the Ryzen 7 8700G, homes 768 RDNA 3 stream processors (12 CUs) operating at as much as 2,700MHz and utilizing system reminiscence as an alternative of devoted VRAM.
As such, it’s cheap to imagine that the RX 7400 might need someplace within the area of 1,024 RDNA 3 stream processors, and the RX 7300 might need that very same 768 stream processors because the 8700G however with devoted VRAM that ought to make it sooner than utilizing system reminiscence. Nonetheless, it’s attainable – and we’d definitely hope that is the case – that AMD chooses to up the specs on these playing cards.
An RX 7400 that has, say, 20 CUs (1,280 stream processors) would make for an honest step up in efficiency from the built-in graphics of the Ryzen 7 8700G and the older RX 6400 card, whereas not stepping on the toes of the RX 7600 an excessive amount of. If AMD might value a card like that between $175-$199, it might have a possible funds graphics card champion on its hand.
To point out simply how doubtlessly large an impression a card of this stage might have on the gaming PC market, you solely have to have a look at the most recent Steam {hardware} survey and see the dominance of previous, low-cost Nvidia playing cards such because the GTX 1060. If AMD can provide a card that comfortably outperforms playing cards like that however for a tiny value, it might lastly see one among its GPUs break into the highest ten.
