AMD has officially launched the Radeon RX 9050 graphics card as its latest addition in its RDNA 4-based lineup, and as the model name suggests, this one target players who want a decent 1080p performance at a relatively affordable price tag.
AMD Radeon RX 9050 Revealed
The Radeon RX 9050’s silicon is the most cut-down thus far, featuring only 16 Compute Units (with 1,024 Stream Processors), or half of what the Navi 44 silicon could offer, while paired with 8GB of GDDR6 memory via a 128-bit memory bus. Its Game Clock is rated at 1.92GHz, with a Boost Clock reaching up to 2.60GHz, while the card by default carries a Total Board Power (TBP) of just 92W, requiring a single 8-pin auxiliary PCIe power to operate. (Some AIB-overclocked models will carry higher TBPs, up to 100W.)
All told, this GPU is expected to offer 10.6 TFLOPS of theoretical compute performance, or roughly about the same as a PlayStation 5 console (which is based on RDNA 2, and has more than double the CUs to boot). While the performance can be pretty much summed up as “not a whole lot,” AMD claims it’s still capable of delivering 60FPS in 007: First Light, 96FPS in Cyberpunk 2077, and 131FPS in Forza Horizon 6 – all at 1080p Medium settings. As with all GPUs based on Navi 44 however, note that you only get 3 display outputs by default, with HDMI 2.1b and DisplayPort 2.1a outputs among those.
Interestingly, as reported by Wccftech’s Hassan Mujtaba, the Radeon RX 9050 won’t be globally available in all markets – AMD is only offering the new GPU on APJ (Asia Pacific & Japan) and LATAM (Latin America) markets at the price of $279 (~RM1,141), meaning North America and EMEA regions will not get access to this model. Simultaneously, the company also confirmed the existence of 4GB variant using the same silicon, though this particular RX 9050 model is only for OEMs, with no plans to sell it individually.
Pokdepinion: With a card this low-end, could it still be shielded from the current market pricing? Probably not.
