Monday, March 13th 2023
Low-profile, Single-slot AMD Radeon RX 6300 Graphics Card Hits the Chinese Grey Market
A curious OEM-only AMD Radeon RX 6300 desktop graphics card surfaced on Chinese peer-to-peer marketplaces. The card is a true single-slot, half-height (low-profile) graphics card, with an active fan-heatsink based cooling; and two display outputs—a pair of HDMI 2.1 ports. The card draws all its power from the PCIe slot, and features a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 host interface. The RX 6300 is based on the same 6 nm "Navi 24" silicon as the RX 6400 and RX 6500 XT, although it is rumored to be heavily cut down. The mobile RX 6300M has 768 out of 1,024 stream processors enabled, so one can expect a similar cut-down for the RX 6300. Perhaps the most interesting piece of specifications is the memory—2 GB GDDR6. It's possible that the card has a puny 32-bit memory interface, half that of the 64-bit interface the "Navi 24" is capable of. The person selling it has it listed at just ¥399 RMB (around $60).
Sources:
Goofish, HXL (Twitter)
26 Comments on Low-profile, Single-slot AMD Radeon RX 6300 Graphics Card Hits the Chinese Grey Market
Anyway, GT 1030 competitor.
The only real drawback here is a lack of av1 decoding
There are people out there in the need of a proper slot powered gpu with more than 2 or 4 gb vram. It's getting old by now with only 2 and 4 gb vram. has been the norm since gtx 1050/1050 ti was released. So some time ago now.
For people maybe looking for a descent powerful slot powered gpu with more than 4 gb vram. A used Rtx a2000 might be your only answer as that is the only slot powered card with more than 4 gb vram . I have the 6 gb vram version and it's a pretty good card. It can also do games (but a few games will suffer from unuptimized drivers for games with not working properly) and it overclocking pretty good to.
Too much issues with my 6400, I'm going back to Nvidia when they release their 4050 (Ti)
I'd expect the RX6300 to perform closely to the GTX1630.
And to answer your question, no, 6400 has better video playback and 3D power than a 1050ti.
Or you can go and buy an A380. Again twice the price, you will be helping Intel with it's beta testing, problematic 3D, but (and I am serious here) top media coding performance.
The only real option right now for HTPCs are AMD's APUs and Intel Integrated graphics. But what about older hardware where a GPU is necessary? Do we just throw them away? Is A380 the only modern option here? Probably not because A380 needs a modern motherboard if I am not mistaken. So?
If this could become available at $60, it will be a very nice move from AMD, at a time where companies try to rip off consumers. The price is right, but to be honest, if this becomes officially available, it will be probably between $79 and $99 MSRP. The $60 price point is abandoned by EVERYONE those last years. No products for under $100. In fact we might stop seeing new GPUs under $200 in 4-5 years. So a NEW product, that is actually new, at way less than $100, it could be beneficial to everyone. Even Intel and Nvidia fans. If ONE of those companies decided to go after the sub $100 market again, the other two might follow. The problem is that none of those 3 wants to. AMD sells APUs, Intel sells CPUs with Xe graphics, Nvidia tries to pull ALL price up, make the GPU a premium option that costs between $500 and $2000. For start.
P.S. Pity AMD cut those media capabilities, because it was meant to be used next to Intel and AMD mobile CPUs that where already capable of decoding modern codecs. Hope their next 7300M to be a full product, because they probably realized by now, that they can sell those mobile GPUs at retail for desktop use.
As I said before, I need a decent video card (4050) low profile, that card doesn't exists yet, and probably won't.
You are right, low end video cards (integrated or low end addons) are pretty much a scam, that's why apple implemented their own integrated solution.
But missing current decoding just kills the 6400 for HTPC for those who want a smallerish PC for that. Which I also don't care about as I use a NUC for HTPC, which is an actually unobtrusive computer.