This card is insidious.

I wonder if it is as strong as my GTX980 :laugh:

That's the only way it'll sell.

I can already imagine some OEM will put in something like ''RX 9050 8GB RAM 12400F.....''
Yep, it actually mean 8 GB of DDR4 lol

VerpalI can already imagine some OEM will put in something like ''RX 9050 8GB RAM 12400F.....''
Yep, it actually mean 8 GB of DDR4 lol

This is was kinda obvious from the get go. No end customer is asking for 4 GB in 2026, but Lenovo, Dell, Acer, Asus and other OEMs will happily sell it alongside their poor value pre-builds any day.

guess it would be OK if it were priced around 100 when ram prices are back to sane prices

ThomasKThis is was kinda obvious from the get go. No end customer is asking for 4 GB in 2026, but Lenovo, Dell, Acer, Asus and other OEMs will happily sell it alongside their poor value pre-builds any day.

it's probably still better than the igpu in the ryzen ai 370 and it will have it's uses.
but it shouldn't be labeled as for gaming.

VerpalI can already imagine some OEM will put in something like ''RX 9050 8GB RAM 12400F.....''
Yep, it actually mean 8 GB of DDR4 lol

Well it was made for CyberPowerPC and like this kind of pre-build:

www.bestbuy.com/product/cyberpowerpc-gamer-master-gaming-desktop-amd-ryzen-5-5500-amd-radeon-rx-9050-4gb-8gb-ddr4-500gb-pcie-4-0-ssd-black/J3L7GQWW7Z

I wonder if the 8GB model is a tit-for-tat copy of the 9060XT 8GB but with half the shaders? 'Curious if the old vBIOS cross-flash tricks to get a higher power limit might work? (Vega56->64, 5700->XT, 7900XT->XTX, etc.)

Edit: Yes, at least Powercolor appears to be re-using 9060XT 8GB PCB minus 1 power phase

My 9060 XT 16GB clocks very very high(relative to Navi48 cards I've had). I imagine with even less hardware active in the die, a 9050 8GB might reach even higher. Performance be damned, it'd be interesting.

YouseethisThis card is insidious.

At least it has HW Video Enc/Dec, unlike Navi24 (RX6300-6500). TBH, I'm left wondering if these'll end up in any OEM attempts at bringing ARM64 to quasi-ATX desktops?

DragokarWell it was made for CyberPowerPC and like this kind of pre-build:

www.bestbuy.com/product/cyberpowerpc-gamer-master-gaming-desktop-amd-ryzen-5-5500-amd-radeon-rx-9050-4gb-8gb-ddr4-500gb-pcie-4-0-ssd-black/J3L7GQWW7Z

The description on that says this:
The Gamer Master also includes the latest AMD Radeon or NVIDIA’s GeForce series of graphics cards to deliver high frame rates and impeccable image quality in the newest PC games.

Sure…
Also, that prebuilt is a terrible deal. For 900 dollars you can fit in like a used 7700xt or 3080 that will be 5+ times more powerful. Also, 32GB of RAM vs this systems 8GB. I hate ripoff prebuilts.

A 4GB OEM card would not be able to handle modern gaming at high resolutions. Maybe at 1080p but even then it would struggle.

robert3892A 4GB OEM card would not be able to handle modern gaming at high resolutions. Maybe at 1080p but even then it would struggle.

So, you see, my 5 year old low end gaming laptop has a 4 GB RTX 3050. It was already a tight squeeze back then, but you could more or less make it work by making use of the one feature AMD didn't have: DLSS. While FSR 4.1 is a thing now, it is not viable with this product. With a 4 GB framebuffer, the model will eat a significant amount of very precious VRAM (it weighs around 600-800 MB), something which is only a minor concern with DLSS 3.8 CNN models, which usually require just about 10% of the memory footprint of transformer-based models, between 60 and 80 MB of VRAM at 1080p (DLSS 4.5 transformer, while it runs, shares the same VRAM burden of 600-800 MB and is also computationally expensive, which makes it generally unsuitable for the same reasons). Scaling down to FSR 3.1 will reduce visual fidelity, so 4 GB of VRAM is an extreme limiting factor even with half a Navi 44's worth of rendering power. That's before you even account for the fact that it has half of the bandwidth of the 8 GB model, owed to the fact it's cut down to 64-bit instead of using half density modules.

It's inexcusable for 2026, even if claimed to be an OEM exclusive product. It's a strategy only AMD could come up with, release a low-end card on a segment that is sure to sell due to adverse market conditions, just to further sully the brand's name with a dogshit product being actively marketed with the same name of another which is superior in every way, specifically to the market that buyers are most likely to have no technical grasp of the situation. People are gonna look up "Settings for X game on Radeon RX 9050", just to find out that their RX 9050 is entirely incapable of doing anything described.

It's like they're asking "please, please, please remember, Radeon is garbage and will forever be. don't get your hopes up."

You guys remember when we complained about the RTX 3050 6GB? Yeah.

4GB is diabolical.

I assume the only reason it exists is because OEMs asked for it, so that makes sense.

Ryzen comes with a built-in GPU so this thing serves no purpose cus you sure can't game on it.

Anyone who buys this to game on will be heartbroken.

Broken ProcessorRyzen comes with a built-in GPU so this thing serves no purpose cus you sure can game on it.

Anyone who buys this to game on will be heartbroken.

this thing runs laps around the igpu in the ryzen Ai 370 and the igpu in regular ryzen cpu's is not fit for anything but browser games.
it's ok but not at the current pricepoint and not for games made in the past decade

MrDweezilI assume the only reason it exists is because OEMs asked for it, so that makes sense.

I don't think anyone specifically asked for this, it just "exists" because it's something they can sell under X value and make a profit on it. Performance characteristics be completely damned.

MrDweezilI assume the only reason it exists is because OEMs asked for it, so that makes sense.

Obviously. For this SKU to exist, there must be demand, right?

Don't hold your breath, Nvidia might follow suit.

At $279, it's just a hair below the 9060 XT 8 GB. Someone give us a reason to buy this instead of that.

Also, with the same core config and lower clocks than the integrated 890M, it should be a low profile card with no power connector.

AusWolfAt $279, it's just a hair below the 9060 XT 8 GB. Someone give us a reason to buy this instead of that.

The fact that the 9060 XT is going to blow up in price, it's going to increase between $80-$100 for the 8 GB model soon.


We're in a calm before the storm period, once current supply of GPUs is sold, the next upcoming batches will be subject to some pretty major price hikes.

Dr. DroThe fact that the 9060 XT is going to blow up in price, it's going to increase between $80-$100 for the 8 GB model soon.

We're in a calm before the storm period, once current supply of GPUs is sold, the next upcoming batches will be subject to some pretty major price hikes.

Maybe it's time to stock up on GPUs then? :D

AusWolfMaybe it's time to stock up on GPUs then? :D

It does seem to be the case. I want to get one but it's a bit of an inopportune time, keeping an eye out for the last train out of this mess...

AusWolfMaybe it's time to stock up on GPUs then? :D

My radeon 9070 non xt which i bought for that purpose for later this year - had no price increase in ~2 months in europe.

I think it is a bad time to stock medium to high priced nvidia graphic cards now.

_roman_My radeon 9070 non xt which i bought for that purpose for later this year - had no price increase in ~2 months in europe.

I think it is a bad time to stock medium to high priced nvidia graphic cards now.

It’s always a bad time to “stock up” hardware

Dr. DroThe fact that the 9060 XT is going to blow up in price, it's going to increase between $80-$100 for the 8 GB model soon.

We're in a calm before the storm period, once current supply of GPUs is sold, the next upcoming batches will be subject to some pretty major price hikes.

That’s going to blow over, I seriously doubt consumer cards are being made in volume as munufacturers know full well they won’t be selling many at these retarded prices.

When the bubble pops inventories will be low and get replaced with more reasonably priced items.

Given the state of the economy retail won’t be able to keep prices up there either

kondaminIt’s always a bad time to “stock up” hardware

Not necessarily. I recently made 200 quid profit on the 48 GB DDR5 kit that I bought 2 years ago. If I knew that the RAMpocalypse was coming, I would have bought at least 10 more.

kondaminIt’s always a bad time to “stock up” hardware

I do not agree. I still do not need 2TB nvme. Still i am glad i bought it. With dram the kc3000 2tb should now have a resale value of 400€ // i wanted to put my mp 600 pro 1tb in my box which i will sell soon. 400€ made me consider moving all my data and using the corsair trash drive mp 600 pro.

I changed my mind, when I need something most likely in the next 10 months buy it. I stocked up on several usb mice, some were defective after a few hours.

common stuff like motherboards and cpu are on another page, i would not stock those. note: any cpu that the box boots, not special ones like the 5800x3d

i consider it and i regret it not having bougth ARCTIC chemical water coolers which were quite cheap for some time. That was a big mistake.

some stuff is not sold / made / sold for the initial price after a few months. especially for the arctic cooler with 6 year warranty i made a big mistake not stocking one or two of those.