AMD Didn’t Want Anyone Testing the Radeon RX 9050. Reviewers Got One Anyway, and Now We Know Why

[David_Schroth]

There is a rule of thumb in this business that has never once failed me: when a company works this hard to keep a product away from reviewers, the product is the reason. AMD launched the Radeon RX 9050 at the end of July with about as little fanfare as a graphics card launch can […]

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[Uvilla]

Its the first in a future of price increases, thats all. All other future higher performing cards will be priced higher.

 

[Marees]

supposedly next gen AMD is releasing only one chip AT2 for enthusiasts
RDNA 4 to continue at "budget" ($500 & below) end
the top dog AT0 is probably only for prosumers or the extremely rich gamers

so RDNA 4 cards will have to hold the fort until RDNA 6 launches in whatever shape & form

this means that the 4gb 9050 xt could be selling well into 2030 !!

 

[Uvilla]

There wont be any budget gaming anything any time soon.
Perhaps in a few years the budget gaming will be on a hacked used nvidia h200 from a failed startup.

 

[kcthebrewer]

I don't see how you can not see it as malice.

They want consumers to not know what they are buying.

Their website purposely misleads by giving gaming numbers that the 4GB cannot achieve because of the VRAM limitation

 

[Grimlakin]

Yea there is no way. Unless they made some ground breaking texture compression leaps.