A hypothetical Radeon RX 9050 is said to be in the works at AMD.
The inflation of DRAM and NAND chips almost makes graphics cards look like cheap components... No, it's a joke. Investing in a graphics card - even more so if it's destined to equip a gamer's PC - remains a major investment, even if you're content with an entry-level product. In fact, the entry-level market in 2026 has little to do with the entry-level market as it was conceived ten or fifteen years ago, and it's now hard to find interesting models at less than 300 euros. Who knows, maybe AMD will come up with something just the thing?
Indeed, the VideoCardz site reports that the American brand is preparing to market a card called Radeon RX 9050. Logically, such a card would be positioned behind the Radeon RX 9060 and RX 9060 XT, which themselves were already the smallest models in the RDNA 4 range launched by AMD in February 2025. There are, however, some intriguing details in the news published by VideoCardz. The Radeon RX 9050 is said to feature the Navi 44 GPU in its XT variant, with 2048 cores. Such a variant is the same as on the Radeon RX 9060 XT and therefore a more powerful model than the Navi 44 XL that equips the Radeon RX 9060.
VideoCardz brings together the features of the Radeon RX 9050 © VideoCardz
This Radeon RX 9060 "only" features 1,792 cores, significantly fewer than the hypothetical Radeon RX 9050. VideoCardz points out that, for the time being, this information comes from a single source: it's possible that others will contradict it, or even that AMD will change its tune. That said, the Radeon RX 9050 would still be inferior to the Radeon RX 9060, as its operating frequencies would be significantly lower: 2400 MHz base and 2990 MHz boost for the Radeon RX 9060, while the Radeon RX 9050 would make do with 1920 MHz base and 2600 MHz boost. That would be enough to establish a clear hierarchy between the cards... with, perhaps, a few exceptions depending on the games and technologies implemented.
As for the rest, we're talking about a Radeon RX 9050 with 8 GB of video memory and GDDR6, with a bandwidth of 288 GB/s thanks to its 128-bit interface bus. The card is, of course, PCI Express Gen 5 x16 compliant, but we won't know much more for the moment, apart from a final clarification about the power supply required to run a Radeon RX 9050-based configuration: 450 watts minimum. VideoCardz has not yet given any details of the price or market launch date of what will be the most affordable of RDNA 4 graphics cards.
