AMD news keeps coming—and each story is different: after the ultra-high-end model, here comes the “hyper-accessible” GPU.
It’s hard to find a more eventful time for AMD right now. Just a few days ago—at its Advancing AI 2026 event—AMD outlined impressive ambitions in the enterprise sector, particularly in the area of data centers. As we reported, the focus was on competing with Intel and NVIDIA using the first Zen 6 CPUs and GPUs more powerful than ever: on one hand, the EPYC Venice CPUs with up to 256 cores, and on the other, the Instinct MI455X GPUs, featuring 320 billion transistors and capable of supporting up to 432 GB of HBM 4 memory. These are true powerhouses.
With its Challenge series, ASRock is one of the first manufacturers to offer the Radeon RX 9050 © ASRock
Today we’re shifting our focus entirely with the announcement of a new graphics card based on the RDNA 4 generation. This is the latest generation launched by AMD, featuring the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT, which will go on sale starting in March 2025. Since then, AMD has been expanding its GPU architecture down the lineup with the release of the Radeon RX 9060 XT in June 2025 and the Radeon RX 9060 in August 2025. So today marks another step down the product line with the official announcement of the Radeon RX 9050. This card uses the same GPU as the Radeon RX 9060 and 9060 XT—the Navi 44—but in an even more streamlined version: it now features only 1,024 stream processors, compared to 1,792 on the Radeon RX 9060 and 2,048 on the Radeon RX 9060 XT.
VideoCardz provides an overview of all of AMD’s RDNA 4 graphics cards © VideoCardz
The operating frequencies have also been lowered, but the most significant change lies elsewhere: the existence of a version of the Radeon RX 9050 equipped with only 4 GB of video memory. Suffice it to say that in 2026, this seems rather meager, even if it will obviously lead to a significant drop in prices. It’s worth noting that, for now, only the 8 GB version of the Radeon RX 9050 is featured by AMD on its official website, and only this version has a suggested retail price ($279). In fact, the 4 GB version appears to be reserved for a single AMD partner—a system integrator looking to offer configurations with very limited video memory. Perhaps AMD will later expand the availability of this 4GB version, as the company does not plan to offer its Radeon RX 9050—not even the 8GB model—worldwide: for now, only the Asia-Pacific, Japan, and Latin America are covered.
