AMD RX 7300 GPU appears in AIDA64, confusing the hell out of everyone - what's going on?

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An AMD RX 7300 graphics card has just been spotted as an addition to AIDA64, which is a somewhat mystifying move.

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What's going on here? Well, that's got a lot of people confused as you might imagine, but an entry for the GPU info relating to the RX 7300 is present in the latest beta release notes for AIDA64. It appears alongside NVIDIA's mobile RTX 5060 and 5070 graphics cards (and a couple of other GPUs to boot).

VideoCardz noticed this and theorizes that maybe there is actually an RX 7300 out there already, in some obscure corner of the computing world. We guess it's possible that somewhere in Asia an unknown OEM has this card in a PC, but we're not sure it's all that likely.

But if not that - an actual appearance of this GPU somewhere in the wild - then what prompted AIDA64 to make this addition? If the software devs have indeed just stumbled on the specs, which is another theory VideoCardz proposes, then we're not sure why they'd bother adding them to the list of supported graphics cards at this point.

An imminent curveball?

Surely, it's clear enough that the RX 7300 (or indeed the RX 7400) aren't happening? Or maybe there's a true curveball about to be thrown by AMD, and an RX 7300 is planned for an imminent launch - but we remain seriously skeptical on that score.

If there is (or could have been) an RX 7300, the distant theories about the GPU point to it being seriously underwhelming, with leaker Kepler dubbing it a 'Navi 33 Ultra Lite with 4 CUs' a couple of years back, which, even at the time, raised some serious eyebrows.

Even as a lightweight laptop GPU - presumably with more than 4 CUs at this point - the RX 7300 is going to struggle to compete with contemporary integrated graphics, which have gone from strength to strength.

For now, the curious case of the RX 7300 continues to send eyebrows skywards. If anything, this could be a non-gaming GPU slotted into some obscure corner of the PC market, or even some kind of error on the part of the AIDA64 developers.

We shall see if anything develops with this situation, but frankly I can't see it happening (though I'm aware I may have to consume those words at some point down the line).

Meanwhile, the real attention is on the rumored RX 9060 XT and how that GPU - expected to be announced at Computex, on May 21 - will compete with NVIDIA's RTX 5060 models.