AMD Radeon RX 9050 4GB: It's a Scam
AMD announced its latest RDNA 4-based budget GPU in late July, the Radeon RX 9050, with a suggested price of $280. Oddly, despite receiving an MSRP in dollars, it wasn't actually intended for retail sale in the US. But that's the least strange thing about this GPU. In this review we're testing the cut-down 4GB version hiding inside prebuilt PCs, and (spoiler) it's considerably worse than the RX 9050 most buyers will find when they research the card.
Getting one wasn't easy, either. It cost us about $1,700 Australian dollars to get our hands on this entry-level GPU because you can't buy it in Australia, and where the 4GB model is available, it isn't sold on its own. It's an OEM-only product, and as we'll see, a particularly dodgy one.
You can currently purchase the 8GB RX 9050 as a standalone retail product in several regions. In Japan, for...
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