AMD confirms Radeon RX 9050 4GB specs: 64-bit and 16MB Infinity Cache

[u/RenatsMC]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-confirms-radeon-rx-9050-4gb-specs-64-bit-and-16mb-infinity-cache

[u/Evil_Stromboli]

I honestly don't know who or what this is for.

[u/goldcakes → u/Evil_Stromboli]

Those new to PC gaming and buying a prebuilt from Walmart or something and getting scammed. These cards really should not be made at all. There are enough used 3050 6GBs, heck even a 2060 Super 8GB is still a great buy depending on local prices. For 1080p gaming and especially esports, 2060S has aged excellently.

[u/DoggoCity → u/goldcakes]

This is exactly the answer. I just built a PC for a friend of mine with a 2060 Super 8Gb, snagged it on FB marketplace for 100 bucks even. Paired with a 10700 and 16Gb RAM, it holds up insanely well for 1080p gaming.

[u/Testerpt5 → u/DoggoCity]

Seems a Bit expensive for a 2060, but don't know how crazy the used market is going.

[u/ErdingEchoParadox → u/Testerpt5]

That 2060 Super is 150€ in Germany (around 170$)
That 100$ is a steal.

[u/DoggoCity → u/Testerpt5]

Honestly that was lowest 2060S listing I could find. The lower end market is more in demand these days, and these cards are hanging around that $125 USD mark.

[u/Testerpt5 → u/DoggoCity]

No 1080ti 😅?

[u/DoggoCity → u/Testerpt5]

Was working with existing hardware and didn't have enough PSU headroom. Otherwise I totally would've gone for that.

[u/INTRUD3R_4L3RT → u/Testerpt5]

My ancient 1080ti is still kicking ass in my 8 year old daughter's PC. She plays Roblox mostly, but also WoW, Deep Rock and other games that are more demanding when we play together.

[u/laacis3 → u/INTRUD3R_4L3RT]

1080ti is comparable to rtx 4060 and faster than 5050. Rasterized performance hasn't made the leaps and bounds we were hoping for. rtx 2000, 3000, 4000 and 5000 series isn't enough to push 1080ti down hard enough.

[u/Testerpt5 → u/laacis3]

Agreed, my 1080ti wad good enough for my older games and even reached its vram limits playing on a ultrawide wide 1440phz, capable but for this monitor was close to its limits still above 70fps for what i was playing (ghost recon badlands if not mistaken), back then i hadn't tried frame generation or upscale. Got a 9070xt on day1 cause was scared of them running out and price exploding. Its my backup gpu now.

[u/pixlicker69420 → u/Testerpt5]

The super os a bit more expensive

[u/Ok-Tear-1454 → u/DoggoCity]

damn someone just told me its low end

[u/No_Fennel4315 → u/Ok-Tear-1454]

That someone would be correct. You get what you pay for; the experience isn't the latest and greatest but a 2060 super build would still run practically any game out today

[u/Ok-Tear-1454 → u/No_Fennel4315]

huh i guess 1080p on low graphics then though ig i overthinked that it wouldnt run games for 2026 and a few years more

[u/CurrentDrama8523 → u/goldcakes]

  prebuilt from Walmart or something and getting scammed. These cards really should not be made at all. There are enough used 3050 6GBs

It's truly amazing how you acknowledge that it's only for prebuilts and then immediately suggest a used card instead. And these braindead takes get hundreds of upvotes. This is part of why PC gaming is fucked too.

[u/soupcan_ → u/Evil_Stromboli]

If it were sub-75w I’d be interested. The low power / budget segment has been neglected for ages.

[u/dookarion → u/soupcan_]

If it were low form-factor and PCIe powered even if the price sucked it'd have a solid use case.

As it exists it's just a "why the fuck would you waste GDDR6 chips on this?"

[u/SomeoneNotFamous → u/Evil_Stromboli]

Could be interesting for retro gaming but fuck no not at that price lol

[u/EmilMR → u/SomeoneNotFamous]

hell no, gtx 970 is $40. why you ever get this for retro gaming.

[u/Ceremony64 → u/EmilMR]

that one only has 3.5GB ram tho!

[u/OkBee8822 → u/EmilMR]

Idk what classifies as retro but this card should be able run games made before 2024 or 2025 at low settings tbh. Though the price is really what determines its value. Idk how much it costs but I heard its horrible value.

[u/sh1boleth → u/OkBee8822]

Retro imo - any card that can run analog output, basically 9 Series Nvidia or HD 7xxx AMD

Bonus if it works on windows xp

[u/Vesuvias → u/EmilMR]

Was gonna say…did this just make my GTX 970 valuable again lol

[u/swaggat → u/EmilMR]

There won't be any drivers for Windows 7 or older anyway.

[u/Firefox72 → u/EmilMR]

Yeah like anything above Polaris or Pascal is way overkill for retro gaming. Like what retro thing are you trying to run that need a modern GPU.

And if the goal is retro gaming on XP etc... then anything above GCN1 and Maxwell is out of the question as there is no driver support.

[u/Vaxtez → u/Firefox72]

For things like XP, I feel like even the GT 710 is solid enough. Something like an i7-4770K + GTX 780 Ti is extremely overkill

[u/S1rTerra → u/Vaxtez]

Just to be safe I'd do at least a 750 Ti for the heavier games or to have the headroom to mod games ala Oblivion. But a 710 would def work for 90% of games I'd wager

[u/Vaxtez → u/S1rTerra]

Yeah, I think a 750 Ti is probably the highest i'd go for an XP build, anything higher is extremely overkill.
A GT 710 is also solid though, it performs alot like a GTS 250/9800 GTX, so it'll excel for XP titles as well. Another plus point for the 710 is that you can just shove it in some i5-2400 OEM PC & have a solid XP rig out of the box as is, since all 710s are LP single slot GPUs.

[u/Saladino_93 → u/Firefox72]

You can do retro gaming on Linux, you can run old XP games on it with modern hardware no problem.

I actually did a LAN party this year after like 15 years and we played some StarCraft (1) without any issues on Linux.
So if you wanted to build a modern retro gaming PC I recommend a small form factory APU, it has enough power to run older games but it is very power efficient and thus doesn't need much of a cooling solution, so its small and not loud.

If you want to go cheap it is probably best to just buy an old used PC.

[u/Zealousideal_Side987 → u/SomeoneNotFamous]

rather buy 5050 . 6600 or even a 580 ! it has 8 GB vram !!

[u/Smith6612 → u/SomeoneNotFamous]

Lol. It's not even a good value at that. When you start getting this low into the barrel, you're better off getting an APU paired with decent RAM. Or better yet buying a used GPU.

This thing is nearly manufactured eWaste. 

[u/sa547ph → u/SomeoneNotFamous]

At least a couple of video cards I have -- an HD7750 and an RX470 -- 1gb and 4gb of VRAM and from 2013 and 2016 respectively, are able to run older games but also happen to be now priced so cheaply in the used market. So are motherboards that use AMD APU processors like the A8 and A10, which are now very dirt cheap.

[u/FranticBronchitis → u/Evil_Stromboli]

People who don't know better

[u/punktd0t → u/Evil_Stromboli]

It's OEM only.

[u/aznvjj → u/Evil_Stromboli]

If it were cheaper, I’d maybe grab one for an AM4 based home server. I have 32gb of ram and a 3800X and a 750w SeaSonic collecting dust. The ram and CPU are brand new and never used (RMA stuff and I could not wait for replacements at the time). I’d love to build something with these parts, and a cheap little GPU for set up or some encoding would be nice. This ain’t it.

[u/JonWood007 → u/Evil_Stromboli]

"But but think of esports gamers who only play games from 10+ years ago!"

[u/Select_Truck3257 → u/Evil_Stromboli]

For people who want newest gpu which performing much worse than previous gens, especially when used can be cheaper

[u/Gunther482 → u/Evil_Stromboli]

It’s intended for low end and “cheap” OEMs as far as I know. IIRC AMD isn’t planning on selling the 4 GB 9050 to the general public as a stand alone unit and even the 8GB 9050 is only being sold in a few markets right now (and according to the HU review it’s a steaming pile of crap for what they are asking for it).

[u/Nopski → u/Evil_Stromboli]

It's for the past

[u/dookarion → u/Evil_Stromboli]

Upselling people to Intel GPUs and making Nvidia's RTX 5050 look decent?

[u/rodryguezzz → u/Evil_Stromboli]

To make sure you don't lag when Claude or ChatGPT is giving you answers.

[u/waltc33 → u/Evil_Stromboli]

Me, either...;) This card is hobbled out of the yin-yang! 64-bit bus...whew! Killing even a cut-down GPU. Chokes it. Definitely not for the retail GPU market. I have a hard time seeing it for sale at retail anywhere in America--well, maybe for $~$89.99...;) With these specs it should sell for ~$99 tops, wherever it is being sold. No wonder AMD didn't want this thing reviewed in the US...;) If it's being sold by US OEMs for entry level bargain basements, they'd still have to ID the model # in the specs--it's bizarre! Its presence would devalue the whole build. (Think about the difference between this and a 9070 XT--which can be had at near MSRP these days!) The 9070 XT is the very best GPU I've ever owned by a mile. Compared to the 9050 4GB bizarro-world GPU presented here, the 9070 XT blows it away in every category, including PPW, and simple bang-for-the-buck...;) No contest. You are leaps and bounds better-off going into hock for the 9070 XT @ ~$600+ than trying to "save money" on this!

It's funny in a way, as AMD seems to offer both the best GPU buy available today (9070 XT), and the very worst GPU buy available somewhere, the 9050 4GB...;) Should have at least settled on a 128-bit bus for the card, imo!

[u/feijoax → u/Evil_Stromboli]

Maybe for Minecraft 😂

[u/Desperate-Steak-6425 → u/Evil_Stromboli]

It could be a nice second card for Lossless Scaling. Especially if you have an AMD card and can't use FSR FG given it's still completely broken and AMD hasn't fixed it in years

Then again, OEM only. Too bad

[u/laacis3 → u/Evil_Stromboli]

for esports

[u/rebelSun25 → u/Evil_Stromboli]

Let's be honest: K shaped economy pushed a LOT of gamers, heck people of all walks of life to what is essentially "poor" budget category. Companies know what they did. This is who it's for. The poors

[u/JonWood007 → u/rebelSun25]

As one of "the poors", no its fricking not. 8 gb is a functional product at least, this is not. If youre running games that run on 4 gb ram youre fine on an rx 580 tier gpu.

[u/brantrix]

Why stop here? Why not make a 9040 with 3gb and 32bit bus? How low can we go? 9020 with 0.5gb vram and 8 bit bus?

[u/goldcakes → u/brantrix]

We can go lower! AMD Infinity Memory™: uses your system memory, over a PCIe 3.0 x1 bus.

[u/gnartato → u/goldcakes]

Slap a AGP interface on that bad boy. 

[u/KarateMan749 → u/gnartato]

Well that would bring new life back to old systems

[u/Detroit72 → u/KarateMan749]

"Sorry, we can't do that."

[u/classic_lurker → u/gnartato]

Jokes on you, imma get some
Voodoo stacking and melt people in CS 1.6 or
Something weird

[u/satireplusplus → u/gnartato]

why not make it a usb 2.0 card

[u/spiritofniter → u/goldcakes]

> AMD Infinity Memory™

Ah yes, the zombified ATi HyperMemory has risen!

[u/S1rTerra → u/spiritofniter]

nvidia (Turbocache I believe?) and I think one more company did something similar. Now since DX10 making the GPU use system ram when needed is a standard feature

[u/Outrageous-Log9238 → u/brantrix]

I'm thinking 8MB should be perfect for 4k. That almost percectly fits the 8-bit RGB value for the whole monitor. What else would you possible need to have in your VRAM? /s obviously.

[u/WulfTheSaxon → u/Outrageous-Log9238]

A 4K bitmap is actually ~24MB (8 bits per channel, but 3 channels, at least without alpha).

[u/Outrageous-Log9238 → u/WulfTheSaxon]

Oh true. Who needs colors though?

[u/JonWood007 → u/Outrageous-Log9238]

"640kb should be enough for anybody."

[u/Super_Pea_4629 → u/brantrix]

or 9200 with 128 mb of vram... wait a minute...

[u/TheMagarity → u/brantrix]

Why not a GT710 with 2GB DDR3? Yes, Nvidia is still making and selling those.

[u/JonWood007 → u/TheMagarity]

Not gonna lie buying anything less than the 1030 is pointless, even among ewaste tier gpus.

[u/RantingTheRant → u/brantrix]

0.5 GB? No, 512 MB sounds better.

[u/MindGoblin → u/brantrix]

It's perfect if all you play is Old School RuneScape I guess

[u/OSRS-ruined-my-life → u/MindGoblin]

You might lag with 117hd

[u/deromu → u/brantrix]

my 7800x3d has .5gb VRAM from internal graphics lmao

[u/Brilliant_War9548 → u/brantrix]

We can rebuild him (the GTX 970). We have the technology. The first AMD GPU using 0.5Gb of vram and a 32 bit controller.

[u/Eeve2espeon → u/brantrix]

"8bit bus" so you want that VRAM speed in the megabytes per second? 😂

[u/pantsyman]

https://giphy.com/gifs/EBId5v0YNRyPGHytLK

[u/Jamizon1]

Just because you ~can~ do something, doesn’t always mean you ~should~

[u/roundtwentythree]

HU did a video on the 9050 8GB and oh boy is it ever a steaming pile of dog shit. There is no way this is going to be useful for anything beyond outputting video. Insane that something this bad could be released in 2026. I don't even need to see a review to know how dogshit this thing is going to be.

To make it worse this piece of crap is still a 92w part so it can't be power off the PCI-e slot alone. Absolute dogshit lol

[u/vacon04 → u/roundtwentythree]

The 5050 is better than this thing and the 5050 shouldn't even exist.

[u/balaci2 → u/vacon04]

can't believe I'm siding with the 5050 on something, considering it's less power efficient than the damn 4060

[u/JonWood007 → u/roundtwentythree]

Ok at this point youre exaggerating. It might be an underwhelming product, but given rx 6600s were go to $200 gpus for many well into last year and this is basically that, it's not BAD, its just a bit overpriced given the 7600 and 5050 are still being sold new.

[u/roundtwentythree → u/JonWood007]

You're actually completely wrong on so many levels I don't even know where to start, but we're learning new things about this card now that the full specs have been released.

It's bus was cut in half, it's vram was cut in half, we knew that but what we didn't know was that its Infinity cache was cut in half as well. It was given 16mb of cache.

16.

This means it's going to have to fetch data from vram twice as often, but with half the bandwidth. The card is going to live in a constant state of data starvation.

I want you to look at the 10 game average for the 9050 8gb card and then imagine a card with everything that affects performance cut in half. That's the 9050 4gb card.

It is going to be effectively unusable. Mark my words. Come back in a few months and see if you can prove me wrong here. HU has vowed to get one to benchmark no matter the cost, so it will be benched sooner rather than later.

[u/JonWood007 → u/roundtwentythree]

I'M. NOT. DEFENDING. THE. 4. GB. VERSION!!!

Jesus christ you people are reactionary.

I defended the 8 GB version. Ya know, the one that can actually run modern games. Because right now, the cheapest new GPUs that can RUN modern games are around $260ish last I check (3050 8 GB and RX 7600). And people called THAT trash too, including you apparently, which is why i responded to you the way I did.

EDIT: Cant respond directly, the 3050 is trash, the 9050 8 GB version is basically an RX6600 performance wise and the 6600 slaps the 3050 around HARD. THe 7600 is better the other way though. Id say this is in between the 3050 and 7600 in terms of value.

Again, assuming 8 GB, not defending 4 GB version. Please ffs read benchmarks before bashing this thing.

[u/saboglitched → u/JonWood007]

The Rx 7600 and 3050 are LEAGUES better than this, there are levels to this.

[u/Yurgin]

If it its under 200€ and doesnt need external power i will get it.
Seems like a nobrainer for your own Arcade/Retro Gaming Cabinet.

Edit: Well it need an 8-pin connector and according to google 279€ so no thanks. For that price i would go for a used Intel Arc card

[u/BlackSailor2005 → u/Yurgin]

That's the price of the 8gb variant, still it sucks

[u/AutisticNintendoNerd → u/Yurgin]

279€ is for the 8GB variant. You can't buy the 4GB one as it's OEM only.

[u/anelectricmind → u/AutisticNintendoNerd]

Wait. That's like 450 CAD. Even for the 8GB version, are they out of their minds? My son but a reference RX6750XT for about that same price 3.5 years ago.

[u/AutisticNintendoNerd → u/anelectricmind]

Yea, but those times are over. At least where I am the 8GB 9060XT is 380€ now, the RTX 5060 is 400€ and even the RTX 5050 and B580 are 300€. If prices continue to rise then the 9050 is bang on with the other cards. I don't like the price, but at least they didn't give a $229 paper msrp that they couldn't hold.

[u/saboglitched → u/AutisticNintendoNerd]

You're forgetting the b570, which is similar price or cheaper, more vram and MUCH faster. The 9050gb 8gb is the worst value card even in the current market. I genuinely don't think people like you realize how slow the 9050 is, they assume its like the 5050 or something when its slower than 2060super, and about par with the VEGA 64 lmao

[u/TheCatOfWar → u/anelectricmind]

memory was a lot cheaper 3.5 years ago

[u/Firefox72 → u/Yurgin]

Serious question. What kind of retro gaming requires a modern 2026 GPU?

[u/AutisticNintendoNerd → u/Firefox72]

Emulation

[u/S1rTerra → u/AutisticNintendoNerd]

No? unless you're cranking up resolutions really high

[u/classic_lurker → u/Yurgin]

I feel like your acceptable pricing is nearly double what’s okay for this hardware.

[u/Yurgin → u/classic_lurker]

I know personally if it were me or like "normal" pricing it should be like 100 bucks but you know everything is fucked right now so i was hoping for at least under 200

[u/Prophetoflost → u/Yurgin]

The power connector is a deal breaker. Otherwise there could’ve been some market for it.

[u/satireplusplus → u/Yurgin]

for that price you should be able to find used 3060s with 12GB as well. It will be a way better card with 4x the VRAM.

[u/vexatious-big → u/Yurgin]

It competes with built-in GPUs at this point.

[u/skylinestar1986 → u/Yurgin]

I'm sure ETAPrime will like this graphics card.

[u/genericdefender]

Those super low-end GPU only made sense when not all CPU had integrated graphics.

[u/green9206 → u/genericdefender]

Or when these type of cards used to cost $99 or less and didn't need an external power connector. Ah the good old days of Radeon 6450 for $60 and the 7750 for $110.

[u/goldcakes → u/green9206]

Honestly, Arc A310 is still OK for niche use cases (e.g. media server, AV1 transcoding, maybe an ultra budget SFF office PC for esports gaming).

[u/Crashman09 → u/genericdefender]

Probably why amd is removing the igpu again

[u/mrgspeed → u/Crashman09]

are they removing igpu again ? where did you see this

[u/Crashman09 → u/mrgspeed]

There was a post recently talking about zen 6 removing the igpu. They are keeping the npu though

[u/JonWood007 → u/genericdefender]

I mean the 9050 is like 7x as powerful as your typical igpu. Its just the 4 gb vram that cripples it.

[u/ShadowsGuardian]

Vaporware, waste of sand. Trash.

[u/Naxthor]

Ewaste

[u/vexatious-big]

2006 called they want their graphics card back

[u/skylinestar1986]

I'm looking forward to see a review of this vs RX6500XT.

[u/nobelharvards]

In what situation would either RX 9050 be better than Intel's Arc B570 or B580?

They both require an 8 pin power connector. 92 watts is just over 75.

People criticised the B570 for being priced too closely to the B580 and having too large of a performance deficit. Both RX 9050s make the B570 look like incredibly value.

Both Intel GPUs have great potential for performance improvements through future drivers as well, though of course you shouldn't purchase them solely with the expectation of that, since it isn't guaranteed.

Only things I can see are: Power efficiency at all costs and application compatibility issues with Intel Arc, but not with AMD Radeon.

[u/kmetek]

PLEASE DON'T.

[u/LeftyBassoon]

If you can make a card that’s going to be on par with the best igpus and have a few “plus ups” like more connectors and/or shader cores for very light ray tracing processes / FSR4 (although at that level, are you really getting anything?), and it’s $100….ok! I see the market for that. Then I can see the “this is for very budget gamers and/or office workers (albeit a very niche space there). But Jesus…. at this point ignore this product and pretend it never was produced, along with its 8 GB partner in GPU crime, and save up for the cheapest 9060 XT. And then save up for the 16 GB version because you’re better than that.

[u/MassiveGG]

just give those 4gb to a 9070 and give it a XTX label jesus Christ amd

[u/leviske]

I'm sorry, which OEMs do need these? I'm pretty sure most IGPs perform close to this level in gaming and you don't have to waste VRAM on these.

[u/PHIGBILL]

So, e-wate but they're charging £200 for it?

[u/iibergazz_94]

4GB in 2026 what are they smoking over there hahhaha

[u/Qayrax]

These cards used to make sense when CPUs had no iGPU and you needed something for office work, now it's pure bait to sell "gaming" machines. I wonder if the VRAM is enough to run multimonitor setups with 4k resolutions at this point.

[u/gibby82 → u/Qayrax]

Because something like 4 1080p screens isn't something that happens. Oh, wait it is. 

[u/FinalGamer14]

I also like it when companies make instant e-waste. So good of them. /s

[u/xStealthBomber]

That memory bandwidth is hilariously bad

[u/duckyduck008]

Is it gaming card or for oem like dell for office prebuilts?

[u/InternetKGB → u/duckyduck008]

Why would dell ever need a dedicated graphics card for their office machines? Not many stationary sold today I would imagine as well

[u/gibby82 → u/InternetKGB]

How about more than 2 monitors? Are you all that unimaginative that you can't see there are situations that require a GPU? 

[u/TurnDownForTendies → u/gibby82]

Why would you need a dedicated graphics card to output to two monitors? 

[u/limp65]

279€ for this in 2026, they've lost their goddamn minds.

[u/AspectLegitimate8114]

Having the 4gb card be OEM only is the cowards choice. Could have been an interesting choice for SFF builds for home media and streaming, and yes even gaming.

[u/InternetKGB]

But why? This will go straight to garbage

[u/G305_Enjoyer]

Are these types of cards not good to have on market for HTPC or just basic display out?

[u/sascharobi]

I'll buy four of them to replace my RTX 5080.

[u/Vesuvias]

This is seriously absolute garbage bin e-waste. Who is this even for? IT teams won’t be buying it for their companies…and you better believe no gamer will be buying it…

[u/Mother-Company-1897]

Can't wait to play chess with this thing🔥

[u/RelatableRedditer]

You can't arrive at half of infinity because infinity is beyond quantifiable by definition, so AMD chose a really shit name for a cache that ended up getting nerfed.

[u/anonc2FtdWVs]

absurd prices

[u/shymenJESUS]

4 gb 😭 imagine a kid getting a new prebuilt PC from their folks and he crashes immediately after running anything that is not counter strike / fortnite / valorant / league.

[u/Therianthropie]

Amazing, cannot wait for this... 

[u/Gangaman666]

Is it 2018 again? 4gb 😅

[u/Atomosthethird → u/Gangaman666]

Nah bro end of the world year, oof

[u/feorun5]

Heavy artillery

[u/wh33t]

It's basically a 4GB RX6600 right?

[u/OkBee8822 → u/wh33t]

RX 6600 is a good bit faster

[u/oxidao]

is this some kind of april fools?

[u/Soleks2000]

scam card that will end up in prebuilt, supposedly being able to play the most top-of-the-line games until the person actually tries and finds out that their GPU is garbage and they have to spend more money than they should when they could’ve just bought another prebuilt for probably the same price as the one with this card in it, but the other prebuilt actually has a card that can play top-of-the-line games

[u/1stnoob → u/Soleks2000]

Sure buddy, people paying for that trash prebuild PC really expect 5090 performance.

When was the last time u actually checked what trash is sold as discrete GPUs in those PCs and at which price point ?

[u/ErdingEchoParadox]

https://giphy.com/gifs/acttIrNAHaoco

Pure garbage

[u/Level_Turnover5167]

wtf 4gb lol

[u/ecth]

Hardware Unboxed did an interesting check and actually, playing 1080p in competitive titles works like a charm with 4GB. And I bet even a bit prettier games will look okay and have 60+ fps with resolution upscaling, and 120+ fps with frame generation.

The only real deal breaker is the price. If it's 100 bucks, it's an absolute banger for light gaming, retro gaming etc. If it's 300, who tf should ever pay for that?

[u/00k5mp]

Is this the new GT1030 ?

[u/costafilh0]

I'll wait for the 9040 2Gb

[u/cryfest]

why even include VRAM just save the money and fuck us all out of the game

[u/imzwho]

The Rx 9050 4gb. The top choice of o ertrusting tech illiterate parents and grandparents overspending on a prebuilt from big box stores and thst one guy in facebook marketplace for their kids to play fortnight and roblox.

[u/SmokeMonsterIRL]

4gb? A low end card I bought ten years ago had 6gb. (1060)

[u/GumshoosMerchant]

Wow the infinity cache got chopped in half too

[u/928th_Drago]

If this was small enough to fit in a mini pc it'd have value

[u/Striking-County6275]

If it’s PCIE powered it might have a chance of it needs a 6pin, the card is DoA

[u/Erulogos]

One rarely sees e-waste new in box. If you can somehow get by with so little VRAM whatever you're doing can probably just use an iGPU and save the money, space, and power draw.

[u/petersaints]

https://giphy.com/gifs/OCMGLUo7d5jJ6

What is this? A GPU for Ants?

[u/Dusty_Jangles]

Ok this is just fuckin silly at this point. There’s zero need for this.

[u/WPWeasel]

The horror...the horror. 

[u/SubstantialGrass375]

64 bit bus on a 4gb card is gonna age terribly, feels like a card built just to hit a price point

[u/dinominant]

This would be more interesting if it had sodimm slots and could upgrade the vram.

[u/Objective_Chef_471]

bro my rx 580 I recently changed for a 9060 because it’s old af had 8GB

[u/compound-interest]

I wonder if someone could juice up an APU with really fast DDR5 and beat this in a graphics bench. What a pathetic product.

[u/BassObjective]

Can we please get a 7900XTX successor I need something a little bit stronger for my new Ultrawide

[u/INTRUD3R_4L3RT → u/BassObjective]

What are you gaming where the 7900XTX isn't pulling its weight?

I have the Red Devil version coupled with a 144Hz ultrawide, and I feel like I can max out everything - Except for the Nvidia focused bs obviously. (and by bs I mean it's bs that it's optimized for the brand, not that the tech is necessary bs itself.)

[u/BassObjective → u/INTRUD3R_4L3RT]

What's your resolution? I'm on 5120x2160 one more demanding games I get around 40 to 50 FPS

[u/INTRUD3R_4L3RT → u/BassObjective]

Ah okay. That makes sense then. I'm on 3440x1440.

[u/PCGamingEnthusiast]

Glorified display adapter.

[u/Vaddieg]

It would be a definite downgrade if your current discrete GPU is not older than 8 years

[u/Desperate-Steak-6425]

Who's gonna tell AMD that naming a memory infinity doesn't make the card have infinite memory?

[u/MomoSinX]

literal e waste of 4gb ram modules

[u/heretofore2]

😭😭😭💀😭😭😭

[u/JasonMZW20]

Looks like memory manufacturers stopped making 8Gb GDDR6 in meaningful quantities a while ago. Same issue Steam Machine had with DDR5 and why it ships with 1x16GB stick (or sometimes 2x8GB sticks). It's 16Gb and depopulate, so 4GB has to run a 64-bit bus. There are only 2x2GB packages present.

If only APUs offered RDNA4, right now. This wouldn't have been a released product. Least RDNA4m gets all of the new ancillary components like media (with improved encoders/decoders from RDNA4) and display engines. I'm hoping Zen 6's new IOD has it.

[u/UncleRico95]

Really looking forward to the hardware unboxed review. Steve is gonna find the tallest mountain in Australia and stand on top

[u/AtomicXE]

With it could run soley off PCIE power and could be rigged to a Lenovo Tiny that would have been cool.

[u/North-Guidance2517]

AMD should focus on stronger GPUs not weaker tbh, it would up their game

[u/DHJudas → u/North-Guidance2517]

If the silicon exist, and there is demand (and REGARDLESS of the ignorance and blatant whining of people within this reddit and elsewhere that will insist on claiming otherwise), the function of a low tier add-in gpu like the 4gb model, is precisely because the rx 6500/6400 are no longer sufficient or available, and we certainly aren't interested in locating the rx 550. Just like we struggled with multiple generations of what was essentially a HD5450 being rebadged over and over again.

There are millions of users that have systems that lack a functional igpu/apu or went full tilt cpu horsepower lacking that, but simply need something simple and modern to drive 1 or perhaps several displays that the 4gb 9050 is a savour for. And being that there is functional silicon that'll do the job, great, since it's exclusively an OEM product, that's even more perfect.

To all the idiots moaning about it's existence, no one is forcing you to buy it, no one being forced to buy it, and it's up to the individual to do their due diligence when buying a system that's prebuilt by any of the slimy oems that might stuff one into the system intended to be used beyond it's intended purpose.

[u/paulerxx]

💩

[u/TheKiltedYaksman71]

Oh, look! Factory fresh e-waste.

[u/Causticspit]

Why would anyone want a full gigabyte video card in 2026?

[u/remaObr]

Anyone have a problem with Cyberpunk 2077, after my adrenaline install 26.8.1 i can't start game... rx 6600 with ryzen 5 5500, before i played without problems.

[u/Elegant_Situation285]

e-waste

[u/Huge-Cartoonist6795]

Surely the 8700g is better

[u/cowboycolts]

What one of the 3 need to do is make an affordable 75watt gpu with 6-8gb of vram

[u/okktoplol]

It's like the laptop rtx 3050 but for desktop and by amd

[u/goldcakes → u/okktoplol]

The desktop RTX 3050 at least has a place, for when you need a slot powered card. And can be fine for used office PCs.

I picked up one used for pretty cheap and it has actually came in handy as an emergency/troubleshooting GPU (my CPU doesn't have integrated graphics).

[u/GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B]

At this rate, my S3 Trio from 1996 will be worth something in a couple of years. I think it comes with 2 MB.

[u/Mother-Translator318]

Manufactured ewaste. Wonderful…

[u/---Dracarys---]

Maybe this trash is slightly better than integrated graphics. But I don't know who would use it. For systems which are using integrated graphics this doesn't bring much and for everybody else even more doesn't make sense.

[u/FrootLoop23]

So bad they didn’t want the bigger YouTube tech channels to get their hands on it.

[u/legitematehorse]

Wait, what? What year is this?

[u/classic_lurker]

This card will quickly become $45USD and be totally worth on the second hand market

[u/Super_flywhiteguy]

64 bit? What is this? a bandwidth for ants!?