Sapphire today introduced its Radeon RX 9050 Pulse 8 GB graphics card. Based on a compacted variant of its RX 9060 XT Pulse board design, the card forms AMD's new entry-level in the RX 9000 series generation of GPUs powered by RDNA 4 graphics architecture. AMD carved the RX 9050 out of the 4 nm "Navi 44" silicon by enabling 16 out of 32 compute units physically present on the silicon, resulting in 1,024 stream processors. The SKU interestingly gets the entire 32 MB Infinity Cache present on the silicon. It also features the chip's full 128-bit wide GDDR6 memory bus, and this particular card features 8 GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory.

Sapphire's board design for the RX 9050 Pulse 8 GB features a dense aluminium fin-stack heatsink featuring two 6 mm-thick copper heat pipes. The fin-stack is ventilated by a pair of 70 mm fans. The card takes in a single 8-pin PCIe power connection that's sufficient for its 100 W typical board power. Display outputs include two HDMI 2.1b and one DisplayPort 2.1a connectors. The card is 20 cm in length, 12.2 cm in height, and is strictly 2 slots thick. The company didn't reveal pricing.