AMD reveals the Radeon RX 9050—and 4GB graphics cards are back - PCWorld
AMD has announced the Radeon RX 9050 graphics card, which will be available in 4GB and 8GB variants for pre-built desktop systems. The release has drawn criticism for its limited memory capacity and regional availability.
Why it matters
The reintroduction of 4GB VRAM cards in a modern context highlights ongoing hardware compromises in the budget PC market and the impact of AI-focused memory demand.
You thought a Sophie's Choice between ruinously expensive or embarrassingly underpowered laptops was as bad as the RAM crunch would get? Nope. It looks like we're about to go backwards for graphics cards, too. A brand new AMD Radeon card has just been announced and... oof. Some variants appearing in pre-built PCs will start with just 4GB of GDDR6 memory.
AMD has officially announced the Radeon RX 9050 after a day or so of leaks and, if you look on the official spec page, it says that the Navi 44-based card (a shared platform with the 9060 and 9060 XT) has a "Max Memory Size" of 8GB. But ASRock's spec page for its own version of the card comes in two flavors, 4GB and 8GB. So which one will you actually be seeing?
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