AMD Radeon RX 5300M Has Been Announced

AMD has not announced many RX 5000 graphics cards so far. It's almost as if AMD had only revealed custom-made boards for Sony, Microsoft and Apple so far, which they have also released under the Radeon brand as a secondary thought. For the most part, we have two GPUs with weird variants, and the version announced today will not change much.

The Radeon RX 5300 is a variation of the 5500M, which brings slightly worse performance, but not because the number of actual processor units have been reduced. We also have 1408 processing cores, 88 texture units and 32 ROPs. But we have frequencies with almost 300MHz lower, at the basic level, memory with a bus of only 96 bits and only 3GB of VRAM.

Currently, the only devices that will be equipped with this new GPU are the MacBook Pro models. The RX 5500 series was dedicated to Apple, a bad habbit of AMD that led (according to rumors) to sabotage the Vega series and Raja Koduri's departure to Intel.

However, with time the RX 5300M might arrive on other laptops.

I know it's not great news. We are still waiting to see if the RDNA architecture will have a better version than the RX 5700 and RX 5700XT variants, which will fight side by side with even a 2080 Super, because a Ti seems a bit intangible at the moment.