AMD is planning to launch entry-level Radeon RX 9050 with 8GB of VRAM

According to a new leak and report over at VideoCardz, citing leaked documents and information from AMD, the company is planning to launch a new entry-level RDNA 4 graphics card, the Radeon RX 9050. According to the information, this would use the full Navi 44 GPU in the Radeon RX 9060 XT, with the main differences being VRAM capacity and lower clock speeds.

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The specs for the Radeon RX 9050, which are still to be confirmed, list the GPU as featuring 8GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus at 18.0 Gbps. This would deliver memory bandwidth of 288 GB/s, matching the baseline Radeon RX 9060, while coming in lower than the Radeon RX 9060 XT's 320 GB/s.

As for the clock speeds, the 2,048 Stream Processors, which match the Radeon RX 9060 XT, feature a Game Clock of 1,920 MHz and a Boost Clock of 2,600 MHz. This is notably lower than the 3,130 MHz reference Boost Clock speed of the Radeon RX 9060 XT, by 530 MHz, or around 17%. The difference is larger when looking at the Game Clock speeds, suggesting that the Radeon RX 9050 would ship with a lower power draw than the 9060 XT 8GB's TDP rating of 150W.

According to the report, the specs recommend a 450W power supply, so the Radeon RX 9050 should be an efficient entry-level PC gaming option. What makes this a strange addition to the RDNA 4 lineup is that the Stream Processor (Compute Unit) count is lower than that of the baseline Radeon RX 9060, so it will be interesting to see how the card's 1080p gaming performance stacks up. Also, with 8GB of VRAM, the GPU will definitely be limited when playing games at higher resolutions and more advanced graphics settings in some titles.

And with Computex 2026 around the corner, it will be interesting to see if AMD announces this new RDNA 4 GPU at the show.