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HoloDust on 12 May 2026
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
HoloDust said:

Yeah, pretty bizarre, having full 2048 shaders like 9060XT, especially if those rumored clocks are true, since it pits it at pretty much the same TFLOPS as 9060. I can really figure how that would be cheaper than 9060, which most likely uses silicon that was not good enough for 9060XT.

At this point I'm thinking it must be a false rumor - 1024 shaders would make much more sense for 9050.

Either that, or a lower memory bandwidth by using cheaper memory chips with lower clock speeds (like GDDR5 instead of GDDR6 for instance, or simply lower clocked chips), which probably would result in a lower price point than a binned chip right now.

Yeah - really eager to see what that 9050 will look like, though whatever it is I think it's too little, too late.

From my current POV, AMD ultimately botched RX90 series - great launch of series and 9070/XT and 9060XT are great cards, but while nVidia not only has cards in lower price bracket than that, but can also rely on previous generations to act as lower tiers (due to DLSS support and RT features), being even as cocky as to relaunch 3060 12GB (and yes, as someone who has one of those in one of the rigs, that card is still good enough for most things as entry level GPU), AMD has nothing similar to offer in that bracket with similar performance/features.