Monday, March 10th 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9050 GPU Class Leaked by Mexican Webstore
AMD has officially stated that its portfolio of RDNA 4 generation graphics cards consists of Radeon RX 9070 XT, RX 9070, and RX 9060 XT models. Last December, a longer list of GPUs appeared online—this pre-Christmas 2024 leak revealed Radeon RX 9060, RX 9050 and RX 9040 identifiers. Team Red seems to be working on populating the lower end of its Radeon RX 9000 family—similarly, Team Green is reportedly expanding its "Blackwell" GPU generation into the "entry-mainstream" segment with their RTX 5050 card design.
Late last week, a Mexican PC hardware retailer inadvertently added Radeon RX 9060 and 9050 categories (not product listings) to its webstore. Noted graphics card watchdogs picked up on the shop's accidental adding of search filters; prompting the swift removal of NDA-busting material (by the time of writing). Resultant VideoCardz news coverage has spread the word of possible forthcoming launches of much cheaper RDNA 4 GPU models. AMD and involved board partners are likely aiming to get lower-mid-range Radeon RX 9060 XT cards out of the door by the second quarter of 2025. Recent leaks indicate Radeon RX 9060 (non-XT) and RX 9050-class products potentially arriving at retail closer to summertime, with speculated "Navi 44" GPUs onboard.
Sources:
DD Tech Mexico (filters removed), VideoCardz
Late last week, a Mexican PC hardware retailer inadvertently added Radeon RX 9060 and 9050 categories (not product listings) to its webstore. Noted graphics card watchdogs picked up on the shop's accidental adding of search filters; prompting the swift removal of NDA-busting material (by the time of writing). Resultant VideoCardz news coverage has spread the word of possible forthcoming launches of much cheaper RDNA 4 GPU models. AMD and involved board partners are likely aiming to get lower-mid-range Radeon RX 9060 XT cards out of the door by the second quarter of 2025. Recent leaks indicate Radeon RX 9060 (non-XT) and RX 9050-class products potentially arriving at retail closer to summertime, with speculated "Navi 44" GPUs onboard.
12 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9050 GPU Class Leaked by Mexican Webstore
There is still a big market for the occasional gamer, it might even be a bigger market than the mid-range GPUs
But because of that it will be the 60 and 50 that will actually be about 400 to 600 in the stores, aka midrange.
Some parts of the chip would be wasted but then LPDDR5X should be significantly cheaper than GDDR6, which would offset the difference in cost.
I doubt even N44 is going to have enough salvage dies for a 9050 considering it is absolutely tiny (<150mm2).
Or better, Nvidia doesn't care and AMD just matches them.
Both AMD and Nvidia had no low-end cards the previous generation, effectively the cards from the gen before that slotted in in that class.
You can do that for 1 generation, but with 2 it gets a lot harder to sell, or more specifically, market.
Entry level these days is $300, there's almost nothing below that and you wouldnt really WANT anything below that these days.
Your priorities are screwed if you can't figure this out.