Rumours suggest that there are two AMD RX 7000 series GPUs under $250.

PC hardware plans come and go. Some become shipping products, while others are scrunched and thrown into a bin marked "cba". Let's hope that these two recently rumoured graphic cards fall under the former category, as we could use some new cards under $260.

According to komachi_ensaka, a known leaker on X's X platform, AMD has mentioned two new graphics cards. The Radeon RX7400 and RX7300. We don't really know much about them, or where they've appeared. But they would be a surprising development in a GPU-generation we thought was already finished.

The RX 7600 is the cheapest graphics card in the 7000-series available today. However, the last one announced was the RX XT in January. It's the same card, with the same Navi33 GPU, as the RX 7000, but now with 16 GB worthless memory.

The RX7400 and RX7300 would allegedly be using the same Navi33 GPU as the RX7600 XT. This means that 2,048 cores are the absolute maximum configuration possible with this GPU, along a 128 bit bus. The RX7400 and RX7300 will have fewer cores, but the RX7600 XT, RX7600, and RX7600 already utilize the GPU's entire complement.

Videocardz believes that AMD's RX 6000-series cards, which have teeny-tiny core counts, could be the next generation of GPUs. The RX 6000-series has just 768 cores, while the RX 6000-series has just 1,024. We could see similar performance from these new cards along with a slim memory interface. It would still be a significant improvement for the switch in architecture to RDNA 3 from RDNA 2.

The main thing here is AMD's price cap. The RX-7600 is $269, sometimes even $250. With such low core counts, the RX-7400 and RX-7300 would be priced at or below $200. This might not seem like much, but it's a discrete option where there are currently few.

Nvidia no longer offers ultra-low-end GPUs, but Intel still has a few older Alchemist-generation GPUs that are in this price range, like the Arc A580 or A380.

A super-budget graphics card is less desirable due to the arrival of impressive iGPUs in chips like the Ryzen 7/8700G, Ryzen 5/8600G and very recent Ryzen AI300-series ’Strix Point’ chips. If you want discrete, I understand. However, you can get a 768-core RDNA3 GPU with either desktop AMD APU.

The Radeon 890M with its 1,024 cores, found in the laptop-focused HX 370 (the Radeon 890M), would be even more powerful as a desktop APU, but no such AM5 chip is available today. If you're on tight budget, there are more options than ultra-budget discrete graphics cards.