Avid gamers and sport builders alike are actually largely settled on 8GB of VRAM being the baseline expectation for a gaming GPU in 2026, and that is additional bolstered by the most recent Steam {hardware} survey, which exhibits 16GB of VRAM to now be the most typical graphics card configuration.
That hasn’t stopped AMD from releasing a 4GB OEM-only GPU inside its gaming-oriented lineup of RX 9000 sequence GPUs, which it has simply confirmed the ultimate particulars on.
AMD revealed the RX 9050 GPU earlier this yr, and it turned essentially the most inexpensive possibility throughout the RX 9000 lineup, with customers in some areas already in a position to buy a unit with an 8GB VRAM configuration for a retail worth of below $300. That looks like an incredible worth on paper, however preliminary impressions of this card from publications akin to TechSpot have not been sensible – and now AMD has confirmed the precise specs for the 4GB card.
As proven on the brand new product web page, the 4GB variant halves various specs from the usual RX 9050. The reminiscence bandwidth has been slashed from 128-bit to 64-bit, reducing reminiscence bandwidth from 288GB per second to 144GB per second, whereas AMD’s ‘Infinity Cache’ can also be halved from 32MB to 16MB. The GPU core itself, at the least, stays unchanged.
4GB is not sufficient for the most recent PC video games, a lot of which now ask for 8GB of VRAM of their system necessities at the least. Earlier than this, AMD hadn’t launched a 4GB shopper GPU since 2022’s RX 6500 XT. For Nvidia, you’d have to return to 2019 to seek out its most up-to-date 4GB shopper gaming card, the GTX 1650.
The 4GB model of the RX 9050 will solely be equipped to OEMs for prebuilt PCs, and will not be accessible for customers to purchase straight for their very own builds (in contrast to the 8GB variant). The query that raises although, given the cardboard’s naming throughout the gaming-focused RX 9000 lineup, is who is that this card truly designed for?
