ASRock RDNA4 Radeon RX 9050 Challenger Spotted with 4GB and 8GB GDDR6 Memory Configurations

[Peter_Brosdahl]

For a brief moment, ASRock revealed its RDNA4-based consumer-grade Radeon RX 9050 Challenger graphics card, which showed two memory capacities being offered. These two SKUs offer 4GB and 8GB variants and are obviously aimed at budget builds that do not have a graphics solution (i.e., CPU sans iGPU). ASRock’s product page has since ceased working, […]

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[Marees]

new AMD Radeon™ RX 9050 graphics card, which expands the Radeon™ RX 9000 Series portfolio with an affordable option that brings the latest AMD RDNA™ 4 gaming technologies to mainstream gamers in the APJ and Latin American markets at a SEP of $279 USD.
Radeon RX 9050 key specs:

Architecture: AMD RDNA 4

Compute Units: 16

VRAM: 8GB GDDR6

Game Clock / Boost Clock: 1.92 GHz / Up to 2.60 GHz

TBP: 92W

To learn more about the Radeon RX 9050 GPU, and the Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards, click here.

AMD launches the RX 9050, and it's even more entry-level than expected - update: it's $279 and limited to certain regions​

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By Jacob Ridley
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Oh, and the 4 GB version is OEM-only.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gr...-and-its-even-more-entry-level-than-expected/

Only Best Buy has the card for sale so far, inside a CyberPower gaming PC for $890. This includes an RX 9050 4 GB among its shoestring specification.
AMD actually rallied against 4 GB cards back in 2022.

"Competitive products at a similar entry level price-point are offering up to a maximum of 4GB of VRAM, which is evidently not enough for today's games," AMD said in a blog post. "Go Beyond 4GB of Video Memory to Crank Up your settings. Play on Radeon RX Series GPUs with 6GB or 8GB of VRAM and enjoy gaming at Max settings."

 

[Marees]

due to memory situation, AMD might launch only one chip of RDNA 5 (AT2 — the successor to 9070xt, 9070, 9070gre, & potentially a 9070xtx too)

this means existing RDNA 4 cards would continue until RDNA 6 is launched (2029 / 2030)

so we could witness AMD selling the 9050 4gb in 2030 !!

 

[Grimlakin]

Well time to re launch e-machines, we have a card for them!