{"id":4493,"date":"2026-07-28T15:52:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/4gb-graphics-cards-are-back\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:23:08","slug":"4gb-graphics-cards-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/4gb-graphics-cards-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"4GB graphics cards are back"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The ASRock AMD Radeon RX 9050 Challenger GPU in front of a white background\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: ASRock\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/asrock-amd-radeon-rx-9050-4gb-wide.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\"><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first modern GPU with 4GB of VRAM has appeared, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/839353\/pc-ram-shortage-pricing-spike-news\">RAM prices and component shortages<\/a> push tech prices higher. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalfoundry.net\/news\/2026\/07\/leaks-point-to-return-of-4gb-gpus-as-ai-flash-memory-crisis-worsens\"><em>Digital Foundry<\/em><\/a> reports, a listing for an AMD Radeon RX 9050 with 4GB of RAM was <a href=\"https:\/\/asrock.com\/Graphics-Card\/AMD\/Radeon%20RX%209050%20Challenger%204GB\/index.asp\">spotted on ASRock&#8217;s website<\/a> by a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RubyRapids\/status\/2082009608454062171?s=20\">user on X<\/a>, the same day ASRock also launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asrock.com\/news\/index.us.asp?iD=5827\">an 8GB version<\/a> of the RX 9050. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does it make sense to buy a graphics card with just 4GB of VRAM? According to the specs on ASRock&#8217;s website, the 4GB version of the RX 9050 is built on AMD&#8217;s RDNA 4 architecture and has a 64-bit memory interface, 16 compute units, and a boost clock speed of up to 2,600MHz \/ 18GBps. That should be enough to enable new features like FSR 4, \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/971868\/asrock-amd-4gb-rx-9050-gpu\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first modern GPU with 4GB of VRAM has appeared, as RAM prices and component shortages push tech prices higher. As Digital Foundry reports, a listing for an AMD Radeon RX 9050 with 4GB of RAM was spotted on ASRock&#8217;s website by a user on X, the same day ASRock also launched an 8GB version &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4668,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions\/4668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}