AMD Radeon RX 9050 4GB Specs Confirm A Heavily Trimmed-Down Budget GPU

Today, the house of Radeon has just released AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.8.1. This new driver package brings support for Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy as well as the X-COM-like Star Wars Zero Company and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. It also adds support for the Radeon RX 9050 4GB graphics card. That's right: it's 2026, and we're talking about a new 4GB Radeon card.

Strictly speaking, we've long known about the Radeon RX 9050, as the GPU officially launched back in July. However, only the 8GB version was actually available at that time. We knew there was a 4GB version coming—incredibly—but not exactly how it would be cut down versus the 8GB card. Now, we know the answer is "a lot."

It turns out that the Radeon RX 9060 4GB has the same eight RDNA 4 WGPs as the 8GB version running at the same 1.92 GHz nominal clock rate. The memory transfer rate remains the same, too, at 18 Gbps. That is where the similarities end. The 4GB card loses exactly half of its entire memory interface; besides the cut to 4GB of RAM, that also means dropping to a relatively meager 144 GB/second of memory bandwidth as well as to just 16MB of GPU Infinity Cache, half that on the RX 9050 8GB and the RX 9060 XT.

That puts this card in a seriously weird spot, because it's powerful enough to embarrass virtually all integrated GPUs, even with the bandwidth cut. However, with only 4GB of video RAM, it's going to struggle in anything beyond previous-generation games (on medium settings, at that) or eSports titles. It's far from a useless product, but it definitely has a very niche appeal; we wouldn't recommend it for most gamers.

Fortunately, it's not recommended for most gamers. AMD has already confirmed that this model was made for a specific partner and that the company has no plans to offer the Radeon RX 9050 4GB as a standalone card. The 8GB model is a much more reasonable value proposition, with specifications similar to the GeForce RTX 4060, and that's the one you might find at retail, although AMD also says that card is limited to "selected regions," which probably means "Asia" if we were to guess.