AMD hasn’t formally introduced a Radeon RX 6300 desktop graphics card, however an instance seems to have turned up on a Chinese language second-user market. If real, and we’ve seen some proof of this product’s existence earlier than, this can grow to be the bottom tier Radeon 6000 collection desktop graphics card out there. That honor was beforehand held by the AMD Radeon RX 6400 which had a really low-key launch practically a 12 months in the past.
When AMD launched the Radeon RX 6500 XT for desktops, it additionally expanded the RX 6000M collection for laptops to incorporate the low-power Radeon RX 6500M and RX 6300M. That was in January 2022. Now we’ve indicators that the desktop RX 6300 is right here as a low-power discrete graphics choice for many who want such elements.
The highest picture comes from the Goofish market in China, by way of
HXL on Twitter. You may see the graphics card pictured makes use of a low-profile bracket with two video output ports, in addition to a really rudimentary trying energetic cooler and heatsink. It received’t actually need a lot in the way in which of cooling, as you will note from the specs, under.
The above graphic follows the standard type/model of an HP laptop itemizing.
The AMD Radeon RX 6300 was launched earlier this month, in accordance with
Komachi. With the easy, unbranded design of the used mannequin in the primary image, it appears fairly sure it was plucked out of an HP desktop construct, changed with one thing extra highly effective, and offered on — maybe hoping to get a very good value for what’s at present a rarity / curiosity.
Common readers, and anybody that has ever checked the specs of the Radeon RX 6500 XT and RX 6400 desktop graphics playing cards, received’t be all that shocked by the RX 6300’s meager specs. One of many ‘highlights’ of the design is its Navi 24 GPU (identical because the RX 6500 XT and RX 6400) which has simply 12 out of 16 attainable compute models (CUs) energetic for 768 streaming processors (SPs). This variety of SPs is identical because the RX 6400, however the GPU within the RX 6300 runs fairly a bit slower than within the RX 6400, with a sport clock of 1,512MHz vs 2,039MHz. This variation could have helped lower the TDP from 53W to 32W.
One of the vital brutal cuts to the RX 6300 is seen in its reminiscence subsystem. It solely has 2GB of GDDR6 (vs 4GB for the RX 6400). The reminiscence bus can also be halved, to simply 32-bits. On a optimistic observe, the GDDR6 makes use of the identical 16GB/s ICs because the RX 6400.
How a lot do you must pay for the Radeon RX 6300? The Chinese language second-hand itemizing asks for RMB 399, which is about $58 at at this time’s alternate fee. As PC fanatics, we might be tempted to search for one thing with extra efficiency on the expansive and numerous used market. It’s most likely honest to say this RX 6300 has been reduce too far for a gaming card, and the Navi 24 GPU’s lack of {hardware} accelerated video encoding makes it unattractive for SFF and HTPCs the place it would in any other case have been welcomed.
