AMD reportedly plans Radeon RX 9050 budget graphics card

AMD is reportedly developing a Radeon RX 9050 graphics card positioned below the RX 9060 series, according to separate reports that describe the card as preliminary and based on a single source. ^{[1, 2]}

The reported card would use AMD's Navi 44 GPU and 2,048 stream processors, the same core count as the RX 9060 XT rather than the RX 9060, while running at lower clocks than both higher-end models. ^{[1, 2]} VideoCardz described the information as "preliminary and only single-sourced." ^[1]

The RX 9050 is expected to ship with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus and a reported bandwidth of 288 GB/s. ^{[1, 2]} One report puts the game clock at 1,920 MHz and the boost clock at 2,600 MHz, though another account says only that it should run a few-hundred MHz below the RX 9060 and RX 9060 XT. ^{[1, 2]}

3DMGame also reports that the card may support PCIe 5.0 x16 and lists a suggested 450W power supply, details not mentioned in the other report. ^[2] The card is being discussed as an entry-level or budget option, but the reports say the specifications remain unconfirmed. ^{[1, 2]}