For a brief moment, ASRock revealed its RDNA4-based consumer-grade Radeon RX 9050 Challenger graphics card, which showed two memory capacities being offered. These two SKUs offer 4GB and 8GB variants and are obviously aimed at budget builds that do not have a graphics solution (i.e., CPU sans iGPU). ASRock’s product page has since ceased working, but that could be due to AMD wanting to do an official announcement prior to product reveal or other technical issues. However, the folks over at VideoCardz and TechpowerUp did manage to get a couple of screenshots of specs and other details for both before they disappeared.
Both cards are virtually identical in terms of specifications other than memory configurations.
- Clock Speeds: 1920 MHz (base), 2600 MHz (boost)
- Compute Units: 16, 3rd Gen RT + 2nd Gen AI Accelerators
- Architecture: RDNA4
- Memory: 4GB or 8GB GDDR6 @ 18Gbps
- Memory Bus: 64-bit (4GB) or 128-bit (8GB
- Power Connectors: 1x 8-pin
- PCIe Support: 5.0
- Recommended PSU: 450W
- Dimensions: 249 x 132 x 41 mm, dual slot
Pricing and availability have yet to be revealed, and it’s a strong possibility that the ASRock AMD Radeon RX 9050 Challenger is intended to be an OEM card. However, depending on pricing, it could be a viable option for those aiming to keep build costs as low as possible while still having a discreet graphics solution, but the 4GB is sure to encounter gaming performance limitations with many titles needing upwards of 8GB, even at 1080p resolutions. System builders in 2026 also have many more options, with processors from either AMD or Intel providing competitive performance with their integrated solutions. On the other hand, it’s a sad time for builders with virtually no offerings thus far this year for mid- or high-end graphics cards from any of the GPU manufacturers featuring new graphics processing units.
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Join Discussion →new <em>AMD Radeon™ RX 9050 graphics card</em>, which expands the Radeon™ RX 9000 Series portfolio with an affordable option that brings the latest AMD RDNA™ 4 gaming technologies to mainstream gamers in the APJ and Latin American markets at a SEP of $279 USD.
Radeon RX 9050 key specs:
Architecture: AMD RDNA 4
Compute Units: 16
VRAM: 8GB GDDR6
Game Clock / Boost Clock: 1.92 GHz / Up to 2.60 GHz
TBP: 92W
To learn more about the Radeon RX 9050 GPU, and the Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards, click <em>here</em>.
AMD launches the RX 9050, and it's even more entry-level than expected - update: it's $279 and limited to certain regions
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Oh, and the 4 GB version is OEM-only.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gr...-and-its-even-more-entry-level-than-expected/
Only Best Buy has the card for sale so far, inside a CyberPower gaming PC for $890. This includes an RX 9050 4 GB among its shoestring specification.
AMD actually rallied against 4 GB cards back in 2022.
"Competitive products at a similar entry level price-point are offering up to a maximum of 4GB of VRAM, which is evidently not enough for today's games," AMD said in a blog post. "Go Beyond 4GB of Video Memory to Crank Up your settings. Play on Radeon RX Series GPUs with 6GB or 8GB of VRAM and enjoy gaming at Max settings."
due to memory situation, AMD might launch only one chip of RDNA 5 (AT2 — the successor to 9070xt, 9070, 9070gre, & potentially a 9070xtx too)
this means existing RDNA 4 cards would continue until RDNA 6 is launched (2029 / 2030)
so we could witness AMD selling the 9050 4gb in 2030 !!
Well time to re launch e-machines, we have a card for them!
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I forgot which, but I saw yesterday that another manufacturer is releasing their version of this as well.