We’re now eight months deep into the life cycle of current generation graphics cards, with AMD joining the fray five months ago via RDNA 4. Now, a new Radeon graphics card has found its way into the proverbial party, but this newcomer arrives without fanfare and feels noticeably late.
Meet Radeon RX 7400. That’s right, we’re staring down the release of a new RDNA 3 graphics card in 2025. As you can garner from the card’s title, it’s also the least-powerful addition to the RX 7000 Series family to date.
Prior to the launch of RX 7400, AMD set the floor of its previous generation graphics cards with RX 7600. A decent card for its time, but one whose successors (namely RX 9060 XT and RX 9060) wipe the floor with.
| RX 7400 | |
|---|---|
| GPU | Navi 33 XL |
| Compute units | 28 |
| Stream processors | 1,792 |
| Ray accelerators | 28 |
| AI accelerators | 56 |
| ROPs | 64 |
| Memory | 8GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 |
| Memory clock | 10.8Gb/s |
| Memory interface | 128-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 173GB/s |
| Board power | 55W |
RX 7400 uses the same Navi 33 GPU as RX 7600, but AMD expectedly makes cutbacks to the full-fat design. Fewer stream processors, hardware accelerators for AI and RT, the usual modus operandi for graphics cards lower down the rung.
Importantly, though, AMD severely trims back the memory clock of RX 7400 relative to RX 7600. Running at 10.8Gb/s, down from 18Gb/s, leaves the card with a paltry 173GB/s of bandwidth.
RX 7400 also has far less power to work with than its Navi 33 sibling, running on just 55W. For context, RX 7600 has 165W to play with, triple that of its less-powerful sibling.
AMD describes RX 7400 on the card’s official product page as “designed for advanced gaming and streaming experiences at 1080p.” I’ll believe such credentials when I see them, as the brand tellingly doesn’t include performance estimates.
Like RX 9060, I imagine RX 7400 won’t be available to purchase alone. Instead, I expect to see this card pop up in ultra-low spec system integrator configurations.
Until we get a better idea of how RX 7400 performs, I’d suggest avoiding this graphics card. The on-paper specifications don’t inspire confidence, nor does AMD’s silent release strategy.
Instead, turn your attention to the likes of RX 9060, or RTX 5050 and Arc B580 if you’re buying a brand-new graphics card. Of course, there’s always the used market, with RX 7600 currently selling for ~£200.
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