Monday, May 11th 2026
AMD Radeon 9050 Leaks With 8 GB VRAM, More Stream Processors Than 9060
It seems as though AMD's Radeon RX 9000-series GPU family may finally be getting a true entry-level variant. According to a recent report by VideoCardz citing a source inside one of AMD's AIB partners, AMD will soon announce the AMD Radeon RX 9050 with 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM and a down-clocked version of AMD's Navi 44 GPU also used in the RX 9060. AMD has not yet revealed any details about the potential upcoming GPU, but there is a spec sheet divulging some of the details of the GPU, including a higher core count than the RX 9060. The card is expected to require a minimum 450 W PSU, suggesting reasonably low power draw, although likely not low enough to power off the PCIe slot alone.
The aforementioned spec sheet lists a Game clock of 1920 MHz and a Boost clock of up to 2600 MHz for the RX 9050, although, notably, the actual stream processor count is up from 1792 on the RX 9060 to 2048 on the 9050. It's entirely possible that we will see the GPU modding community come up with some way to hack a higher clock speed onto the 9050 via something like a 9060 XT vBIOS or some similar trick, but until then it's entirely likely that performance will be lower than the 9060, because the clock speeds are slower on the 9050—13% lower Boost clocks and 20% slower Game clocks. The reports also note that the specifications are preliminary, so it may be the case that some of the stream processors will be disabled to put the 9050 below the 9060. This non-finalized spec means we are also unlikely to see the Radeon RX 9050 launch anytime soon. The spec sheet also lists a PCIe 5 ×16 bus width and an HDMI 2.1b and dual DisplayPort 2.1a ports.
Source:
VideoCardz
The aforementioned spec sheet lists a Game clock of 1920 MHz and a Boost clock of up to 2600 MHz for the RX 9050, although, notably, the actual stream processor count is up from 1792 on the RX 9060 to 2048 on the 9050. It's entirely possible that we will see the GPU modding community come up with some way to hack a higher clock speed onto the 9050 via something like a 9060 XT vBIOS or some similar trick, but until then it's entirely likely that performance will be lower than the 9060, because the clock speeds are slower on the 9050—13% lower Boost clocks and 20% slower Game clocks. The reports also note that the specifications are preliminary, so it may be the case that some of the stream processors will be disabled to put the 9050 below the 9060. This non-finalized spec means we are also unlikely to see the Radeon RX 9050 launch anytime soon. The spec sheet also lists a PCIe 5 ×16 bus width and an HDMI 2.1b and dual DisplayPort 2.1a ports.
78 Comments on AMD Radeon 9050 Leaks With 8 GB VRAM, More Stream Processors Than 9060
AMD: release yet another 2-3 hundred bucks GPU that fills the most overcrowded niche possible.
Why wouldn't this just be an RX 7600 rehash is beyond me.
They would have been fine even on PCIe 3.0
Saying one of the biggest issue with the RX 7600 is 8x lanes is obscure.
Source: www.techspot.com/review/3003-amd-radeon-9060-xt-pcie-benchmark/
RX 6400: 51W, RDNA2, 6nm PCIe4 x4, 768 shaders, 2300MHz, 4GB on a 64-bit bus
RX 7400: 55W, RDNA3, 6nm, PCIe4 x8, 1792 shaders, 2300 MHz, 8GB on a 128-bit bus
"RX 9050 XT": 55W?, RDNA4, 4nm, PCIe5 x16, 2048 shaders, 2600 MHz, 8GB on a 128-bit bus
Seems possible. But yeah what are the chances the rest of the world gets this when the 7400 is Asia-only.
If the main thing it ends up being is a low wattage card, pretty neat. But then why not just lower the price of the Navi44 series? Then let the vendors decide TDP if they want to come out with a low powered, low profile, no-fan card.
Well it's been 22 years since then and the consumer graphics market clearly hasn't gotten any smaller, and the appetite for cheap options is even stronger due to inflated pricing across every segment. Flagships are niche, everything below that is where the money is really made in consumer graphics.
And I mean they are not wrong. AMD has a tiny market share and a tiny niche of that tiny market won't sell enough to cover the R&D costs.Well according to Steam, a larger share then ANY AMD GPU on the list, including the 7800xt, the 7700, the 6600, the 6700, ece ece ece.
This argument got put down back with Pascal. The high end market is plenty large enough to justify its existence. The 7900xtx has a larger market presence then the 9070.
Maybe they will come out with a 6GB GPU in the second half of the year.
the logic of AMD behind the limited line up of RX9000 at launch makes sense, why bother beating NvidAI at every tier when they can just equal on perf and offer better value? you can get 70Ti performance with the 70XT for less money, hence my comment "what is the buyer/user share of the -80 class [and does it make sense to go after it if that's a limited portion of the customer base that's willing to shill out 1600 for a 16GB GPU]?"it's large enough to justify itself but wasn't large enough to be worthwhile of spending RX9000 R&D budget on it (I presume they're reallocating that to Big Navi RDNA5 aka AT0?)it had an over two years long headstart and is only ahead of the 9070XT because moving to it would be a side grade trading extra VRAM for RDNA4/FSR4, maybe worthwhile but just a hassle
and is liked for the same reason the 3090 is still sold, AI bros want that VRAM and 4090s are frickin expensive
LP cards are not cheap. They use smaller, more expensive components to fit the VRM onto a half sized PCB and share few parts with larger cards. The Reapers could use the same PCB components as other cards, hell depending on how much they share they could even use the same PCBs as other models. We can look at the 5060LP, there are two, the Gigabyte and the Asus model. There was also a Zotac, but I couldnt find that one. The Asus has no reviews on Newegg, and the sole gigabyte model has about the same number of reviews as your typical 5060. There's a couple dozen different models.
Now consider that according to Steam, AMD has just 18% of the market. nVidia has 73%. We're being generous here, considering that AMD's share also includes iGPUs. So AMD sells 1 GPU for roughly every 4 nVidia sells. Is a quarter of an already small niche market in another small niche market in the overall GPU market really worth putting the R+D resources into, especially as DIY? sales crash due to RAM prices? I think we can all figure out the answer to that.Your addition to your previous argument that I bolded still makes no sense. If the 7900xtx outsold the 9070, then that would indicate that it would be more worthwhile to spend money on a big 9000 series over the 9070 series. That's the problem with this argument. Looking at nvidia's options, all their low end cards outsold the 5080......so why are AMD's not doing so?
The argument frankly has never made sense to me. What happens when you limit your lineup to just parts of the market is you hand your main competitor the rest of the market ona silver platter, granting them a monopoly and screwing your own customers over. Those like me who bought RX 6000 high end cards and decided to wait for the 9000s were left high and dry. The result? nVidia's super high margin high end card control the entire high end market and likely makes margins that dwarf AMD's entire lineup. We saw this with Polaris and Pascal. People said "AMD is right, the majority of sales are low end cards, why bother beating nVidia at every tier when they can just equal on perf and offer better value"? Well, they found out why, when the GTX 1070 outsold ALL OF POLARIS COMBINED, with each individual card having a higher profit margin then anything AMD made, giving nvidia a huge injection of cash (not even counting the 1070ti/1080/1080ti that were also unopposed) and forcing their own consumers to buy nVidia if they wanted to advance past 2013 levels of performance the 290x offered.
OOPS. That revenue that AMD gift wrapped for nVidia helped team green maintain their lead over AMD too. Double OOPS.
This "Logic" has resulted in AMD's collapsing marketshare, nVidia printing billions in additional capital, and high end buyers getting into the habit of buying nvidia cards. Yeah, that was a major screwup. It's not the AI bros buying used 7900xtxs pushing the Steam numbers up, it's AMD's own consumers sitting there with the last high end card they made, wondering if AMD will bother coming back and if it is even worth it given AMD's behavior, wondering if a 4080 would have been a better choice given DLSS4 and path tracing ece ece. It's hard to gain back consumer trust, and leaving a market makes it exponentially harder to get back in the game later (see also: the failure of vega 64).
And if the 8GB 9060xt is 470$ cad then this 9050 8GB could easily be $300cad.............
Just have to wait for reviews and pricing....................