AMD reveals budget-friendly RX 9050 GPU. More than anything, it’s a sign of terrible times for gaming
AMD has launched the Radeon RX 9050, an entry-level RDNA 4 graphics card built for 1080p gaming. The retail version comes with 8GB of GDDR6 memory and reportedly starts at $279, although its release is limited to Asia-Pacific, Japan, and Latin America. The card has 16 compute units, 1,024 stream processors, and a 92W board power.
- ▪AMD has launched the Radeon RX 9050, an entry-level RDNA 4 graphics card built for 1080p gaming.
- ▪The retail version comes with 8GB of GDDR6 memory and reportedly starts at $279, although its release is limited to Asia-Pacific, Japan, and Latin America.
- ▪The card has 16 compute units, 1,024 stream processors, and a 92W board power.
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AMD has launched the Radeon RX 9050, an entry-level RDNA 4 graphics card built for 1080p gaming. The retail version comes with 8GB of GDDR6 memory and reportedly starts at $279, although its release is limited to Asia-Pacific, Japan, and Latin America. The card has 16 compute units, 1,024 stream processors, and a 92W board power. AMD claims 96 fps in Cyberpunk 2077 and 131 fps in Forza Horizon 6 at 1080p medium. However, the launch also includes a less appealing 4GB version for prebuilt gaming PCs. Budget PC gaming is in a sorry state An AMD representative told PCWorld that the 4GB RX 9050 is a system-only model and will not be sold separately. Its memory interface drops from 128-bit on the 8GB version to 64-bit, cutting bandwidth in half.
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