Preliminary specifications for an unannounced AMD Radeon RX 9050 graphics card have emerged, suggesting the company is preparing a new budget offering. While there’s no word on the price and release date yet, this leak suggests the card won’t be a far cry from existing stock.
Tech outlet Videocardz claims to have received preliminary specifications for the RX 9050. However, the site stipulates these specs come from a single source, which it claims is one of AMD’s add-in board partners (AIBs).
Following AMD’s naming convention, the RX 9050 would slot in below the Radeon RX 9060 in terms of performance and price. However, the card’s alleged specs demonstrate some commonalities with the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB too. I’ve put the rumoured Radeon RX 9050 specs in the table below.
| Radeon RX 9050 | |
|---|---|
| Stream processors | 2,048 |
| Game clock | 1,920MHz |
| Boost clock | 2,600MHz |
| Memory capacity | 8GB |
| Mem. type | GDDR6 |
| Mem. speed | 18Gb/s |
| Mem. interface | 128-bit (PCIe 5.0 x16) |
| Mem. bandwidth | 288GB/s |
| Board power | ~150W |
The RX 9050 will supposedly feature the same full-fat Navi 44 GPU as AMD’s RX 9060 XT. This would put the card ahead of the RX 9060 in terms of stream processors, but AMD is apparently curbing clock speeds as a means of differentiating models.
According to the leak, the RX 9050’s game clock sits at 1,920MHz, a sizeable 20% below that of the RX 9060 (2,400MHz), while the card’s boost clock is reportedly also 13% lower (2,600 vs. 2,990MHz). It’s possible that overclocking will be able to close that frequency gap, but AMD may also be specifically using silicon that doesn’t meet the 9060 XT grade and can’t clock that high.
Furthermore, the RX 9050 is likely to feature 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM. The leaked specs sheet states the modules will run at 18Gb/s, across a 128-bit bus, giving this card the same 288GB/s memory bandwidth as AMD’s RX 9060. The lack of a 16GB version will undoubtedly prove attractive to AMD from the perspective of manufacturing costs, given sky-high DRAM prices.
Finally, the recommended power supply for the RX 9050 is apparently 450W. This mirrors the same recommendation AMD gives the RX 9060 XT 8GB, although those lower clock frequencies will also reduce power. suggesting board power will be ~150W, likely requiring a single 8-pin PCIe connector.
Should the RX 9050 launch be imminent, we’ll hope to learn more about this rumoured graphics card come Computex 2026. Of course, we could be in for another Radeon RX 9070 GRE with a release exclusive to China, but a global release is equally possible.
Check out my GeForce RTX 5050 review to see what’s likely to be the RX 9050’s main rival, if it ever hits store shelves.
