We may finally see the cheapest RDNA 4 GPU in the market soon, and it will be available in two memory configurations.
ASRock Quietly Adds RX 9050 Challenger 4 GB and 8 GB GPUs to its Arsenal; 1024 Shaders, and Up To 2600 MHz
The Radeon RX 9050 made its first appearance last year on a Mexican retailer, and that was one of its first impressions on the internet. To this day, AMD hasn't confirmed the GPU, but we did see some reliable info on the GPU two months ago. It appears that the GPU does exist, and we may soon see the card in the mainstream market.
As of today, ASRock is the only board partner to confirm the existence of the Radeon RX 9050 GPU. The company quietly added pages for the GPU to its official website, but later pulled them down. As per Videocardz, the GPU will be available in two flavors: 4 GB and 8 GB, each offering similar specifications except for the memory configuration.
These GPUs were silently released as part of the Challenger series and boast 16 Compute Units. ASRock's specs are much different from what we saw in the previous leak, and it appears that the RX 9050 will feature 1024 Stream Processors and not 2048. So, this is exactly half the shader count we find on the RX 9060 XT. Nonetheless, it's interesting to see that AMD is using two different memory configurations for the GPU.
The RX 9050 4 GB will boast 4 GB of memory capacity through a 64-bit bus, but the 8 GB variant will utilize a 128-bit bus width. So, you can already expect a drastic difference in their performance despite featuring the same number of shaders. Both GPUs will feature RT cores and AI accelerators similar to the higher-end siblings.
The specs also confirmed the previously leaked clock speeds. Both GPUs bring a base clock of 1920 MHz and a boost clock of up to 2600 MHz. As far as power consumption goes, the specs don't disclose the TDP rating, but recommend a 450W power supply. That said, we still don't know the exact date of release for these cards, and it's possible that ASRock may not release the GPUs in every region.
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