Simply final week rumors emerged of there presumably being two new price range AMD Radeon GPUs, the RX 7400 and RX 7300. Nevertheless, recent rumors are actually 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 improvement, as one of the best graphics card lists of the world are crying out for some actually price range choices to suggest to consumers. AMD‘s present Radeon RX 7600 props up our record as the highest possibility for consumers on a price range, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a $250 card. An RX 7400 or RX 7300 that supplied 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 stories 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 based mostly on AMD’s present RDNA 3 GPU structure. It does, nonetheless, go on to say that it’s attainable 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 programs.
The latter state of affairs would make lots of sense as though a price range graphics card based mostly on the identical Navi 33 GPU because the RX 7600 can be a welcome product for customers on a price range, it’s attainable it could be a product with vanishingly small revenue margins for AMD and its companions. In spite of everything, there’s a specific amount of mounted value to creating a graphics card – you all the time want a PCB, reminiscence chips, different elements, 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 wanting like there’s probability we would 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 every one the AIBs they’ve heard from are “at the moment 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 truly see any RDNA 4 graphics playing cards this 12 months, or if the most recent rumors that the RX 8000 collection launch date received’t be till early subsequent 12 months show to be true, isn’t one thing this newest report offers a lot of a touch on nevertheless it does at the very least present there’s no purpose 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 take a look at what we at the moment know in regards to the Blackwell structure specs and take a look at what a attainable new RTX Titan AI card may seem like.
